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Dan Weedin's Publications

Crisis Management

• Avoiding Crisis Mode (PDF)

Podcasts

• Coming soon!

Articles to Save You Money and Protect Your Investment

• The Money Trap:  Protecting Your Income Before the Loss (PDF)
• Home Gamers Insurance:  Why Do-It Yourself Insurance Buying Can Be Dangerous to Your Business Survival (PDF)
• Changing the Face of Your Business: Three Steps to Avoid Being Sued by Employees (PDF)
• Seven Insurance Strategies Every Speaker Needs to Know (PDF)
• Why You Need to Know the Differences Between an Insurance Consultant and an Insurance Agent (PDF)
• Avoiding Employee Lawsuits - published on Resource Nation (February 2009)
• Driving Down the Cost of Your Auto Insurance (Kitsap Business Journal Sept. 3, 2005)
• Dealing with Aggressive Drivers
• Saving Money on Your Health Care Costs
• How Many Fingers Am I Holding Up? Head injuries in Sports
• Contractors - Don't Be Gored By Your Insurance
• Wedding Blues
• Breaking the Code and the Bank: Ordinance or Law Coverage
• Food for Thought - How Allergic Reactions Can Sting a Business
• Insurance Issues for Home-Based Businesses
• Will Your Cutting Back Break Your Bank?

Kitsap Business Journal Columns

• April 2011 - Blocking & Tackling Isn't Just for Football
• May 2011 - Sirius Business: How to Become a Star
• February 2011 - Enhancing your Reputation is Job 1
• January 2011 - Business Lessons from the Civil War, Part 2
• December 2010 - Business Lessons from the Civil War, Part I
• November 2010 - Scared of Your Boss?
• October 2010 - Are You Part of the "In" Crowd?
• September 2010 - Be Smart with Your Smarts: Protecting your Intellectual Property Brand
• August 2010 - Swimming with the Social Media Sharks and Staying Alive
• July 2010 - Social Media Mayhem Volume 1: A common sense approach to joining the madness
• June 2010 - Royal Flush: How to be King of your competition
• May 2010 - Next Play: Positioning yourself now and for when the economy turns
• April 2010 - Finding Blue Chip Opportunities to Grow in a Tough Economy
• March 2010 - Jump Off the Elevator (Speech) and Take the Stairs: Debunking the elevator speech
• February 2010 - Old School Business: The value of face-to-face networking in an electronic age

Media Room

• Best Week - Quest for Global Insurance Contract Standard Hinges on Compromise - April 1, 2011
• The Street - Wells Fargo Focuses on Insurance - February 23, 2011
• Best Week - AIG Repays Loans and Faces new Public Stock Offering - January 21, 2011
• House Logic - The Cost of Umbrella Insurance - January 29, 2010
• The Philadelphia Inquirer - Present Like a Pro - January 19, 2010
• Insurance News Net - Tiger Woods Plight Highlights Reputation Risk Coverage - December 21, 2009
• Love to Know - Basic Homeowners Insurance Q&A
• Small Business Quandary: Is Renters Insurance Worth It? American Express OPEN Forum – December, 2009
• How the Tiger Woods Fiasco Affects Insurance – Scottrade Stock Market News & Headlines – December, 2009
• Industry Readies for Potential Tainted Drywall Fallout - A.M. Best Company, Inc., November 2009
• "The AIG Effect" in TradeMarkets.com
• Changing the Face of Your Business: Three Steps to Avoid Being Sued by Employees - Resource Nation, March 2009
• How To File an Insurance Claim After a Fire - EHow, February 2009

Important Links

• Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner
• United States Department of Labor (OSHA)
• Washington State Department of Labor & Industries
• A.M. Best Company
• MSDS Online
• Agility Recovery Solutions
• National Flood Insurance Program
• Ready.gov

• My FICO
• Department of Homeland Security
• Rotary International
• Toastmasters International