U Hacked Bro?

It’s embarrassing to get caught with your pants down…

Have you ever gone on vacation and returned home only to discover that your sanctum had been burglarized while you were away? I can tell you that it doesn’t feel good. It feels like you’ve been violated when you consider that some thief has rifled his slimy little hands through everything you own, searching for what he may desire to steal from you. In the aftermath, you are left to calculate your material losses and make official reports to law enforcement and your insurance company. You might decide it’s finally worth it to hire a patrol company and have them install a state-of-the-art security system to prevent any further losses. What an expensive lesson!

As a business owner, you probably already have some sort of paid security system in place for your office or your shop downtown. But, what about your place of business online? Can you imagine someone breaking into your law office and stealing all of your clients’ confidential files? Your doctor’s office? Your accountant’s office? Your insurance agent’s office? You see where I’m going here.

It’s not the 90’s anymore.

Websites are the cornerstone of commerce these days and that makes them a tasty target for crooks and nogoodniks seeking to profit from their ill-gotten gains. Even worse, you’re not limited to the local neighborhood thief because those three W’s in your URL mean: world wide web. And, let me tell you, there are a lot of super-smart cyber mobsters in Russia, Turkey, China, and elsewhere who are pouring big money into hacking websites like yours – and they’re banking on your hubris.

Don’t be a victim.

You’re an entrepreneur. You’re a risk-taker by nature, and you’ve been successful because you’re smart about the calculated risks you’re willing to take. I respect that. It’s my job to provide you with my expert advice as a webmaster, a consultant, and a business development coach so I’m just doing my best to make sure you know what’s at stake when you leave your website vulnerable to hackers because you’ve assured yourself that “It won’t happen to me.” Maybe it won’t. But what if it did? Are you ready to let your loyal customers and clients know that their stuff was stolen because you chose to leave it to risk?