Firstly too all our clients – We will be back up and running very soon!

Burglary. Possibly the most disruptive thing that can happen to anyone, both in private homes and business premises. So what happens if it’s both?!

As someone who is self-employed I’ve conquered many a challenge or difficult situation that being your own boss, marketer, janitor and teas maid has to offer. It’s no doubt freelancing isn’t always easy, but for the past ten years I’ve powered through and have built a successful limited company from all the hard work. All this seemed to completely crash on April 27th this year when my home and business premises were broken in to.

Without going into too much detail, EVERYTHING was stolen, including all business records and work that has been produced for the past six years. Yes, everything was backed up safely but they even took all the back-up hard drives that are probably worth £10 second-hand as they’re £30-£40 these days brand spanking new. So little reward for them, yet so devastating for my business.

There is little comfort in the fact that most of the items will be replaced but the effort, time and work that is so priceless to us freelancers is lost forever. And so, the re-building of my business begins. The company has already lost weeks of earnings on top of the additional expenses due to the robbery, it feels almost pointless to try and start-over. But as a freelancer, that kind of attitude just doesn’t compute.

Instead, Nuke Creative will come back bigger and stronger…maaaaybe with a lil’ re-brand too, we’ll see (suggestions on a postcard by the way, keep it clean!).

In the meantime I want to assure all our clients and new visitors that we will be back to full-strength very soon, please bear with us. Any on-going work you have with us that has been lost because of the burglary will be re-developed as an act of commitment to you and our relationship.

For all you other freelancers out there a bit of advice:

- Use multiple back-ups. Mirrored drives located at your office and elsewhere. If one goes you have the other.

In hindsight, this is the only thing that I could have done differently in order to protect the companies assets and work but it would have made all the difference. Please take note as I wouldn’t want the same to happen to anyone else.

If anybody has any other tips or suggestions that can help us freelancers on this kind of situation please reply to this post.

Watch this space for future updates.