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The magazine of professional investigators

Private Investigator Contracts and Retainer Agreements

30 Jan 2013
L. Scott Harrell
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contract, liability, private investigation
Contract for services and retainer agreements: establishing ground rules for investigators and clients
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Social Media Marketing for PIs

13 Jan 2013
L. Scott Harrell
Off
marketing, social media
Does virtual engagement via social media affect your agency's bottom line? Here's one longtime entrepreneur's take.
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Developing an Investigation Agency Marketing Plan

15 Dec 2012
L. Scott Harrell
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investigation business, marketing
It's easy to create a marketing plan for your private investigation business—in five simple steps.
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Finding Indigent and Homeless People

29 Oct 2012
L. Scott Harrell
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bail enforcement, investigation, skip tracing
Investigators are experts in following a person's virtual or paper trail. But what if there isn't one?
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How to Become a Bounty Hunter

Securing and Transporting Bail Fugitives for Re-incarceration

29 Sep 2012
L. Scott Harrell
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bail enforcement, Featured
The importance of properly transporting a defendant once detained should never be underestimated. For simplicity I have included my company’s policy for transporting defendants.  I believe it does a more than adequate job describing standard transportation policy in regard to
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FTC Halts Computer Spying by Rental Companies and Others

29 Sep 2012
L. Scott Harrell
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Featured, FTC, ISPLA, privacy
Secretly Installed Software on Rented Computers Collected Information, Took Pictures of Consumers in Their Homes, Tracked Consumers’ Locations Seven rent-to-own companies and a software design firm have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they spied on
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Using Wanted Posters to Locate Bail Fugitives

28 Sep 2012
L. Scott Harrell
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bail enforcement, Featured
“Wanted posters” are outstanding tools used to develop information and to create leverage with the defendant’s family.  The leverage comes from the embarrassment of having a family member see the defendant all over his own neighborhood and have to suffer the indignity of havi
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Setting Up and Conducting a Pre-employment Interview

26 Sep 2012
L. Scott Harrell
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Featured, interviewing, pre-employment
Every employment interview should follow some sort of structure to ensure consistency.  This should be applied to the length of the interview, questions asked of every applicant and job expectations discussed as well as the method used to close the interview. Uniformity in the
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