Administration Officials Join Citizens in Public Earthquake Drill / Recent Tornadoes Emphasize Importance of Preparedness

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This Citizen Corps Notice is provided by FEMA's Individual & Community Preparedness Division to highlight community preparedness and resilience resources and activities recently announced by federal agencies and Citizen Corps partners. 

Administration Officials Join Millions of Americans in Public Earthquake Drill
Today, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano joined leaders from FEMA, state and local officials, and more than three million Americans across the central United States to participate in the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut — the largest-ever, multi-state earthquake drill to be held in the United States, and the first major drill to take place along the New Madrid Seismic Zone, which was the site of one of the worst earthquakes in U.S. history nearly 200 years ago. During their visit, which was in St. Louis, Missouri, Secretary Napolitano and Secretary Duncan expressed their condolences for the tragic loss of life and suffering caused by severe storms and tornadoes in Missouri and throughout the Southeast region, and stressed the important role that individuals play in building a national culture of readiness and resilience—encouraging Americans to learn what they can do to help their families, businesses and communities be prepared and stay safe in any emergency. Read the full press release here.

Recent Tornadoes Emphasize Importance of Preparedness
Over the past few weeks our country has been devastated by violent tornadoes. Our thoughts are with those affected by these catastrophic disasters.  Peak tornado season in the southern states is March through May; in the northern states, it is late spring through early summer but it’s important for all Americans to know what to do if they are near a tornado-prone region.  Here are a few basic steps to prepare for this type of emergency:

•    Get a Kit. Create an emergency kit including but not limited to items such as bottled water, non-perishable food, battery-powered (or crank) radio, flashlights, and extra batteries. Keep this kit stored in a safe place and don’t forget important documents. Collect phone numbers of family members, banks, insurance companies, etc with your emergency kit.

•    Have a plan.  Before the tornado occurs, have a plan that allows communication with your family and identifies a safe and secure shelter location. If you do not have a storm cellar, take cover in the basement. If you are in an apartment, move to a hallway or if possible move to a hallway on the lowest level of the building. Avoid windows, doors, and vehicles.

•    Know the facts about tornadoes. Be on alert for signs of a tornado which can include strong winds and a possibility of precipitation.  Tornadoes typically pick up debris and form a visible cloud in the shape of a funnel.

•    Listen to your local weather forecast. Updated information will be available if a tornado could strike in your area. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also has weather updates available.

Visit FEMA’s website for information on how to plan and prepare for emergencies. Contact your local Citizen Corps Council for additional resources and how to get involved in your community. 

Other FEMA Resources to consider:

See news release from FEMA:  http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=54544

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This notice and other Individual & Community Preparedness news can be found on our website at www.citizencorps.gov.

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The National Office of Citizen Corps
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Wildland Fire Preparedness

LLIS.gov Anniversary

National Level Exercise 2011

New Federal Initiatives

LLIS.gov Exclusive Content

Critical Infrastructure: Acquiring Information About Infrastructure to Guide Flood Response Operations

Incident Management: Establishing Procedures for Briefing Response Personnel Regularly on Complex HazMat Issues

Interoperable Communications Planning: Conducting Planning Between Local Emergency Response Agencies and Higher Education Institutions

School Emergency Planning: Including Public Information Material Distribution Procedures in Memoranda of Understanding

LLIS.gov Outreach

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Did You Know?

According to the National Interagency Fire Center, there were wildfires in each state in 2010, which burned approximately 3,423,136 acres total. The most damaged state was Alaska, where fires burned 1,125,419 acres, and the least damaged was Rhode Island, where fires burned 23 acres. Jurisdictions throughout the country should prepare for the threat of wildfires this season.

Wildland Fire Preparedness Featured Topic for May

As responders continue to battle wildfires in Texas, jurisdictions are reminded that wildfire season has begun. The combination of warm, dry weather and high winds contributes to the conditions that make wildland fires likely in any area.

LLIS.gov works with the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center to provide firefighters, state and local governments, and other emergency responders with documents to help them plan for and respond to wildland fires. Available on the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned page, these documents include plans, guidelines, lessons learned, and after-action reports, such as:

• A National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy, Wildland Fire Leadership Council;
• Banner and Jesse Fires: Facilitated Learning Analysis Snag Incidents - August 26 and 27, 2010, USDA Forest Service;
• Incident Management Teams: Including Personnel with Local Knowledge During Response Operations, LLIS.gov exclusive Lesson Learned;
• Lives Lost- Lessons Learned: The Victims and Survivors of the 2005-2006 Texas and Oklahoma Wildfires, Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center;
• Riverside County Health Agency Tabletop Exercise for People with Access and Functional Needs Draft After Action Report (AAR), Riverside County Community Health Agency;
• The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 Report to Congress, Wildland Fire Leadership Council; and
• Wildfire Response: Issuing Identification to Volunteer and Private Firefighting Units, LLIS.gov exclusive Lesson Learned.

For more information about wildland fire preparedness, please visit the LLIS.gov Wildland Fire Lessons Learned topic-specific page in the Incidents box of the FEATURED CONTENT tab on the homepage. To share your experiences and learn from others, participate in the Wildland Fire Response forum on LLIS.gov

LLIS.gov Anniversary LLIS.gov Celebrates 7 Years

LLIS.gov was launched on April 19, 2004, with a press conference in Oklahoma City. The system has come a long way over the last seven years, but none of it would be possible without our dedicated members. The LLIS.gov team would like to thank everyone who has participated in helping LLIS.gov by contributing documents, expertise, feedback, and support. Without this help, the system could not have become the robust repository of nearly 19,000 homeland security and emergency management documents that it is today. Thank you!

If you would like to contribute documents or feedback to support LLIS.gov's future growth, please log in and click on "Submit to LLIS.gov" in the left navigation bar. For more information, contact the LLIS.gov team at feedback@llis.dhs.gov.

National Level Exercise 2011 Major Federal Exercise This Month

National Level Exercise 2011, which is scheduled for May 16 - 20, will be a functional exercise with a major earthquake scenario. This exercise is designed to provide the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with a crucible to test Administrator Fugate's mission for the federal government to make decisions and take action within the first 72 hours of a major disaster that will have positive effect on life-saving and life-sustaining activities. In addition to FEMA, other participants include representatives from Regions IV, V, VI, and VII; Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky; the private sector; and non-governmental organizations.

LLIS.gov supports the National Level Exercise through the Exercise Support System and other activities. For more information on LLIS.gov's participation, contact the team at exercise@llis.dhs.gov.

New Federal Initiatives Updated Directives

On March 30, 2011, President Obama released the Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-8. This directive is aimed at strengthening the security and resilience of the United States through systematic preparation for the threats that pose the greatest risk to the security of the Nation, including acts of terrorism, cyber attacks, pandemics, and catastrophic natural disasters. The directive outlines a national preparedness goal, an integrated set of guidance programs known as the national preparedness system, and the roles and responsibilities of individuals involved in completing the associated tasks. It also calls for a national preparedness report to be completed in one year.

In addition, DHS Secretary Napolitano launched a new National Terrorism Advisory System on April 19, 2011. As outlined in the National Terrorism Advisory System Public Guide, the new system replaces the color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System with just two threat levels: Imminent Threat Alert and Elevated Threat Alert. Alerts will be communicated to the public through the DHS Web site, social networking Web sites, and other media.

For more information on these and other federal guidance documents, please visit LLIS.gov.

New LLIS.gov Exclusive Content The LLIS.gov Team continues to post new Lessons Learned and Best Practices to the system on a regular basis. Weekly updates about new original content that is exclusive to LLIS.gov can be found in the NEW LLIS.GOV CONTENT tab on the LLIS.gov homepage. LLIS.gov recently posted the following exclusive documents:

Lessons Learned

• Critical Infrastructure: Acquiring Information About Infrastructure to Guide Flood Response Operations (Iowa Summer Storms, 2008)
  State emergency operations centers (SEOCs) should consider establishing processes to gather information about county and local critical infrastructure during flood events. This can help ensure that SEOC planning sections have the information necessary to plan for the next operational period.
• Incident Management: Establishing Procedures for Briefing Response Personnel Regularly on Complex HazMat Issues (Anthrax Drum Circle Incident, New Hampshire, 2009)
  Incident command should establish procedures for briefing emergency personnel regularly on complex hazardous materials (HazMat) issues during an incident. This can limit confusion and ensure that emergency personnel are knowledgeable about incident conditions throughout a HazMat response.
• Interoperable Communications Planning: Conducting Planning Between Local Emergency Response Agencies and Higher Education Institutions (Northern Illinois University Shooting, 2008)
  Higher education institutions and local emergency response agencies should consider collaborating to develop interoperable communications plans. This can help ensure efficient communication among response personnel from all agencies during an incident.
• School Emergency Planning: Including Public Information Material Distribution Procedures in Memoranda of Understanding (Spencer, Massachusetts, Water Contamination, 2007)
  School administrators should include procedures for public information material distribution into their memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with local emergency response agencies. This helps to ensure that school staff can receive and distribute critical information material to a student population after an incident.

Have you developed an innovative program or technique from a preparedness investment that you would like to share with other LLIS.gov members? The LLIS.gov team can work with you to develop a Lesson Learned or Best Practice that can be shared on LLIS.gov. To share your stories, contact us at research@llis.dhs.gov.

LLIS.gov Outreach The LLIS.gov Team travels around the country speaking and exhibiting at conferences and events. Recently, we exhibited during the 2011 Training and Exercise Conference at the Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, MD, the 2011 National Hurricane Conference in Atlanta, GA, and Partners in Emergency Preparedness in Tacoma, WA. Did you visit the LLIS.gov representatives at these events? Please share your feedback and comments with us by emailing outreach@llis.dhs.gov.

This month, we are scheduled to participate in the event below. We hope to see you there!

• 03 - 05 May: 2011 Great Lakes Homeland Security Training Conference and Expo sponsored by the Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division in Grand Rapids, MI

If you would like to request an LLIS.gov presentation at your next event, please email the Outreach Team at outreach@llis.dhs.gov. To view a list of all emergency management and homeland security events, please visit the LLIS.gov Events Calendar. For more information, please visit the LLIS.gov Outreach page.

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Wildland Fire Preparedness

LLIS.gov Anniversary

National Level Exercise 2011

New Federal Initiatives

LLIS.gov Exclusive Content

Critical Infrastructure: Acquiring Information About Infrastructure to Guide Flood Response Operations

Incident Management: Establishing Procedures for Briefing Response Personnel Regularly on Complex HazMat Issues

Interoperable Communications Planning: Conducting Planning Between Local Emergency Response Agencies and Higher Education Institutions

School Emergency Planning: Including Public Information Material Distribution Procedures in Memoranda of Understanding

LLIS.gov Outreach

Newsletter May 2011

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Did You Know?

According to the National Interagency Fire Center, there were wildfires in each state in 2010, which burned approximately 3,423,136 acres total. The most damaged state was Alaska, where fires burned 1,125,419 acres, and the least damaged was Rhode Island, where fires burned 23 acres. Jurisdictions throughout the country should prepare for the threat of wildfires this season.

Wildland Fire Preparedness Featured Topic for May

As responders continue to battle wildfires in Texas, jurisdictions are reminded that wildfire season has begun. The combination of warm, dry weather and high winds contributes to the conditions that make wildland fires likely in any area.

LLIS.gov works with the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center to provide firefighters, state and local governments, and other emergency responders with documents to help them plan for and respond to wildland fires. Available on the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned page, these documents include plans, guidelines, lessons learned, and after-action reports, such as:

• A National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy, Wildland Fire Leadership Council;
• Banner and Jesse Fires: Facilitated Learning Analysis Snag Incidents - August 26 and 27, 2010, USDA Forest Service;
• Incident Management Teams: Including Personnel with Local Knowledge During Response Operations, LLIS.gov exclusive Lesson Learned;
• Lives Lost- Lessons Learned: The Victims and Survivors of the 2005-2006 Texas and Oklahoma Wildfires, Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center;
• Riverside County Health Agency Tabletop Exercise for People with Access and Functional Needs Draft After Action Report (AAR), Riverside County Community Health Agency;
• The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 Report to Congress, Wildland Fire Leadership Council; and
• Wildfire Response: Issuing Identification to Volunteer and Private Firefighting Units, LLIS.gov exclusive Lesson Learned.

For more information about wildland fire preparedness, please visit the LLIS.gov Wildland Fire Lessons Learned topic-specific page in the Incidents box of the FEATURED CONTENT tab on the homepage. To share your experiences and learn from others, participate in the Wildland Fire Response forum on LLIS.gov

LLIS.gov Anniversary LLIS.gov Celebrates 7 Years

LLIS.gov was launched on April 19, 2004, with a press conference in Oklahoma City. The system has come a long way over the last seven years, but none of it would be possible without our dedicated members. The LLIS.gov team would like to thank everyone who has participated in helping LLIS.gov by contributing documents, expertise, feedback, and support. Without this help, the system could not have become the robust repository of nearly 19,000 homeland security and emergency management documents that it is today. Thank you!

If you would like to contribute documents or feedback to support LLIS.gov's future growth, please log in and click on "Submit to LLIS.gov" in the left navigation bar. For more information, contact the LLIS.gov team at feedback@llis.dhs.gov.

National Level Exercise 2011 Major Federal Exercise This Month

National Level Exercise 2011, which is scheduled for May 16 - 20, will be a functional exercise with a major earthquake scenario. This exercise is designed to provide the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with a crucible to test Administrator Fugate's mission for the federal government to make decisions and take action within the first 72 hours of a major disaster that will have positive effect on life-saving and life-sustaining activities. In addition to FEMA, other participants include representatives from Regions IV, V, VI, and VII; Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky; the private sector; and non-governmental organizations.

LLIS.gov supports the National Level Exercise through the Exercise Support System and other activities. For more information on LLIS.gov's participation, contact the team at exercise@llis.dhs.gov.

New Federal Initiatives Updated Directives

On March 30, 2011, President Obama released the Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-8. This directive is aimed at strengthening the security and resilience of the United States through systematic preparation for the threats that pose the greatest risk to the security of the Nation, including acts of terrorism, cyber attacks, pandemics, and catastrophic natural disasters. The directive outlines a national preparedness goal, an integrated set of guidance programs known as the national preparedness system, and the roles and responsibilities of individuals involved in completing the associated tasks. It also calls for a national preparedness report to be completed in one year.

In addition, DHS Secretary Napolitano launched a new National Terrorism Advisory System on April 19, 2011. As outlined in the National Terrorism Advisory System Public Guide, the new system replaces the color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System with just two threat levels: Imminent Threat Alert and Elevated Threat Alert. Alerts will be communicated to the public through the DHS Web site, social networking Web sites, and other media.

For more information on these and other federal guidance documents, please visit LLIS.gov.

New LLIS.gov Exclusive Content The LLIS.gov Team continues to post new Lessons Learned and Best Practices to the system on a regular basis. Weekly updates about new original content that is exclusive to LLIS.gov can be found in the NEW LLIS.GOV CONTENT tab on the LLIS.gov homepage. LLIS.gov recently posted the following exclusive documents:

Lessons Learned

• Critical Infrastructure: Acquiring Information About Infrastructure to Guide Flood Response Operations (Iowa Summer Storms, 2008)
  State emergency operations centers (SEOCs) should consider establishing processes to gather information about county and local critical infrastructure during flood events. This can help ensure that SEOC planning sections have the information necessary to plan for the next operational period.
• Incident Management: Establishing Procedures for Briefing Response Personnel Regularly on Complex HazMat Issues (Anthrax Drum Circle Incident, New Hampshire, 2009)
  Incident command should establish procedures for briefing emergency personnel regularly on complex hazardous materials (HazMat) issues during an incident. This can limit confusion and ensure that emergency personnel are knowledgeable about incident conditions throughout a HazMat response.
• Interoperable Communications Planning: Conducting Planning Between Local Emergency Response Agencies and Higher Education Institutions (Northern Illinois University Shooting, 2008)
  Higher education institutions and local emergency response agencies should consider collaborating to develop interoperable communications plans. This can help ensure efficient communication among response personnel from all agencies during an incident.
• School Emergency Planning: Including Public Information Material Distribution Procedures in Memoranda of Understanding (Spencer, Massachusetts, Water Contamination, 2007)
  School administrators should include procedures for public information material distribution into their memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with local emergency response agencies. This helps to ensure that school staff can receive and distribute critical information material to a student population after an incident.

Have you developed an innovative program or technique from a preparedness investment that you would like to share with other LLIS.gov members? The LLIS.gov team can work with you to develop a Lesson Learned or Best Practice that can be shared on LLIS.gov. To share your stories, contact us at research@llis.dhs.gov.

LLIS.gov Outreach The LLIS.gov Team travels around the country speaking and exhibiting at conferences and events. Recently, we exhibited during the 2011 Training and Exercise Conference at the Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, MD, the 2011 National Hurricane Conference in Atlanta, GA, and Partners in Emergency Preparedness in Tacoma, WA. Did you visit the LLIS.gov representatives at these events? Please share your feedback and comments with us by emailing outreach@llis.dhs.gov.

This month, we are scheduled to participate in the event below. We hope to see you there!

• 03 - 05 May: 2011 Great Lakes Homeland Security Training Conference and Expo sponsored by the Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division in Grand Rapids, MI

If you would like to request an LLIS.gov presentation at your next event, please email the Outreach Team at outreach@llis.dhs.gov. To view a list of all emergency management and homeland security events, please visit the LLIS.gov Events Calendar. For more information, please visit the LLIS.gov Outreach page.

If you would prefer not to receive messages to this email address, please log onto www.LLIS.gov, go to "My Settings" via the left navigation bar, and uncheck the box next to "Allow LLIS.gov communications to be sent to my external email address?"

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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Operating a chain saw is not like riding a bicycle.  If it’s been awhile since you used your saw, the technique might not come back to you all at once, but the saw might.

The N.C. Division of Emergency Management and the Federal Emergency Management Agency urge caution around chainsaws and all clean up tasks, tools, chemicals and machinery.

“There are a lot of different ways to get injured by your chain saw,” said Doug Hoell, director of Emergency Management for North Carolina. “To avoid this problem, keep the saw in a position where you can maintain control and don’t wear yourself out.”

For chain saw jobs, Hoell says to keep these tips in mind:

• Keep both hands solidly on the chain saw handles and your eye on what you are cutting.
• Keep the saw only on the right side of your body and below the height of your head.
• Cut with the lower edge of the saw blade. Cutting with the tip of the saw is asking for a mouthful of moving chain.
• Limbs and branches that are piled up and bent may snap back at you.
• Let the chain do the work. Don't try to force the saw.
• And don't wear yourself out using your saw.  Exhaustion makes you lose your edge.

Here’s a list of things to consider before you take on the rubble:

• Survey the work and plan your attack in stages.
• Drink water before you start and take frequent water breaks.
• Poisonous snakes are out and about. Use a long stick to poke through debris before you wade into it.
• Wear protective clothing to suit the job: a hard hat, chain saw chaps, goggles, safety shoes and gloves.
• Use UV protection and bug repellent.

Find more information about getting back into your home or business safely, check out www.fema.gov/rebuild/recover/return.shtm>

FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.

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4/27  6pm-8pm   Ann Soldo Elementay School/ 1140 Menasco Dr     English/ Spanish interpretation

4/30 10am-12pm  Freedom Elemenatry School/ 25 Holly Drive                            Spanish

5/21 10am-12pm Civic Plaza Community Room/ 275 Main St            English/ Spanish interpretation

 

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Meet Our Potential Disasters One Person At A Time

Here is a great comment I came across in a forum I read. It sells the idea that Japan's behavior during this disaster is setting the standard much higher in the way humans are supposed to behave in times of crisis. The American people (and the rest of the world for that matter) are nowhere near this well behaved. The author of this post is getting the sense of the urgency. One person at a time, minds are being made over to change the way we prepare.

 

 

Group: Disaster & Emergency Management Discussion: America Must Scale a National Response to Meet Our Potential Disasters @ All, Great discussion here, if I may interject some other ideas: I preface these ideas with this, I have read the backgrounds on most of you all and I by no way, even on a good day, be allowed to play in your sandboxes, you all are a heck of a lot smarter than me! Having serviced in the National Response System, albeit Military, I have seen firsthand what this country needs is respect to a full proof National Response: all the money in the world cannot buy this, the ability of the people of this country to develop a preparedness mind set. (General Russell Honore) Yes, we have great programs already in place FEMA, National Guard, State Departments of Emergency Management, and last BUT CERTAINLY, BY NO STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION, least…..Local First Responders. However, all the “nice” programs in the world will not provide the citizens of this country what they need in time of disaster. We all know that resources are taxed, during an emergency; First Responders have mission priorities, LIFE and Property being the top two. Yet our country has no real program in place, to train the population in times of disasters. We have to take a page from the Israeli playbook, train our population to be self sufficient for a minimum of 94 hours. I have seen 72 hours thrown around, but I say take that one step further. I don’t know statically what the number is but I would say that it is less than 50% of our population that has NO current basic First Aid Training. Does not have the basics for survivability, food, water, and shelter. So I ask this, would that $27,000,000 that’s being tossed around here, could we not make better use of that running PSAs on TV, Facebook, Twitter, or any other of 9 billion media resources and outlets in this county? (And yes that was a little inflated) Could we not start early in, OMG should I even go here?, School and train our children in First Aid and other survival techniques? Zach, makes a good point, could not businesses invest a little into their most important business resource, People and sponsor training, just think what that would do for their Business Continuity? Now before you get the idea that I am a survivalist, well,.... I hate to disappoint, but I’m not, I just believe that should a disaster strike my area, my neighborhood, I will be prepared to assist my family, friends and neighbors. A lot of times in this country we try to close the gate after the horse has gotten out. Lets train our people and maybe to some extent we can keep the horse in. If I am way off base to your discussion, then please accept my apologies, but one thing I loved seeing in a news report from Japan, They were not crying for their version of FEMA, they were taking care of business, the business of helping each other, and recovering on their own. I don’t know just my two cents. For what its worth!!

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In the middle of volunteer week...

In the middle of volunteer week we celebrate your ability to make a difference and volunteer with a simple call. If you know something about a crime, why are you keeping it to yourself? Your only risking hundreds of lives as you let a criminals stay active in your neighborhood. Our government is asking for help and we just pretend things are OK? Volunteer and be American no matter where your from, make a call in the name of homeland safety.

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8 Failure Avoidance Strategies for Every

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8 Failure Avoidance Strategies for Every Startup

Every startup mentor has his favorite list of basic strategies to avoid pitfalls, and I’m no exception. If my experience and insights can save just one founder from the stress, lost time, and lost money associated with a startup misstep, then I’m a happy man. I offer these pragmatic recommendations:

3. Reign-in expenses. The most important task of a startup CEO is to review every expense with a miserly hand BEFORE the money flows out. Do not delegate this task! Barter services and use equity to get things done for minimum cash. Make every effort to do things “in house”, rather than rely on outside services, accountants, and law firms.

Martin Zwilling is the founder and chief executive officer of Startup Professionals, a company that provides products and services to start-up founders and small business owners. Read more about Marty here. Read more at www.youngentrepreneur.com

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8 Failure Avoidance Strategies for Every

Clipped from www.youngentrepreneur.com

8 Failure Avoidance Strategies for Every Startup

Every startup mentor has his favorite list of basic strategies to avoid pitfalls, and I’m no exception. If my experience and insights can save just one founder from the stress, lost time, and lost money associated with a startup misstep, then I’m a happy man. I offer these pragmatic recommendations:

3. Reign-in expenses. The most important task of a startup CEO is to review every expense with a miserly hand BEFORE the money flows out. Do not delegate this task! Barter services and use equity to get things done for minimum cash. Make every effort to do things “in house”, rather than rely on outside services, accountants, and law firms.

Martin Zwilling is the founder and chief executive officer of Startup Professionals, a company that provides products and services to start-up founders and small business owners. Read more about Marty here. Read more at www.youngentrepreneur.com

 

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Food Economics 2011

If you knew a disaster was going to happen, would you pray for food, or rely on the government to rescue you? I suggest you start caring for yourself. This message I clipped is from your tax dollar well spent. Your money goes to FEMA to publish life saving information. Billions of dollars in research around the globe is connected to FEMA. Their number one first message to everyone is simple and clear and they have been telling us for years that the government and the world economic situation will not let them afford to care for us. They know there will come a day when everything they have written in the message Get a kit. Make a plan. Be informed. will come true. If your a bible theologists you will see the message is clear and much the same message. http://bit.ly/h5pHdt

Food Economics 2011

If you knew a disaster was going to happen, would you pray for food, or rely on the government to rescue you?

I suggest you start caring for yourself. This message I clipped is from your tax dollar well spent. Your money goes to FEMA to publish life saving information. Billions of dollars in research around the globe is connected to FEMA. Their number one first message to everyone is simple and clear and they have been telling us for years that the government and the world economic situation will not let them afford to care for us. They know there will come a day when everything they have written in the message Get a kit. Make a plan. Be informed. will come true. If your a bible theologists you will see the message is clear and much the same message.

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Make a purchase on Facebook!

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OK, I am done with work now. Time to get out and have a good time now that I know I did my best to help my friends prepare for the earthquake that is sure to come.

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My Price is Way Lower

Visit my webstore at www.firsttrustindustries.com and compare my prices to the one you find on www.thefind.com

I am cutting prices lower to help you prepare.
Have a great weekend.

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