No, I’m not writing this from beyond the grave, recently I have been doing a bit of thinking on what would happen if I died, not that I plan to die, but you never know.

I have a young family and my online earnings are starting to become a serious part of our income. My partner knows what I do, but she doesn’t know all the nitty gritty, to be perfectly honest she is not that interested (except for the money each month).

Some of my sites are automated, they would continue to operate for sometime before my absense became a problem. Other sites are quite time resource intensive at present.

But, I don’t have a clear list of instructions on what needs to be done for each site, or a list of what bills need to be paid each month.

My partner could work this out from my set of accounts, but lets be honest here. She is not going to be up to sorting through all of that for sometime, so to ensure that my sites can continue to generate revenue for as long as possible I need to create some documentation about them.

At this point I’m thinking I need to include:

• What sites I own
• Servers Details
• Instructions on operating each site
• Ad Revenue/Account Details
• Value of the site - Reviewed quarterly
• Monthly Expenses
• List of suggested People to assist in operation/sale of sites
• Site License Details: Software used etc
• Recommend Retain/Sell for each site
• Unique Information for each site
• Account Details for Everything (eg Adsense, Fastclick, GoDaddy, etc)

There are probably a few other things as well, but that is all that comes to mind at this time.

Of course the most important thing is to ensure the information is found fairly quickly, so I’m thinking 2 copies stored at home (paper & offline digital), 1 copy with my accountant, and 1 copy with my solicitor (lawyer for Americans).

What do you think? Have I missed something?