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Weekly Briefing 012120

21 Jan 2020
Hal Humphreys
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marketing, private investigators, Small Business, small business owner

A few highlights from marketing month so far, and a teaser for this week’s upcoming webinar:

This month we’ve been talking about how to get the word out about the work you do. Surely by now you’ve read and re-read Ruben Roel’s article on how not to waste your marketing energies and Scott Fulmer’s primer on PPC ads.

Last week, we posted a fantastic podcast and Q&A transcript featuring my conversation with Jason Feifer, editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine. He had great insights to share about why promoting yourself isn’t sleazy and why creating a professional-looking website matters more than you think:

“If I am researching somebody I would like to hire, and the only thing I have about them is their website — I haven’t met them, I haven’t talked to other people they work with — I am going to extrapolate as much as I can from the thing I am looking at. And if it’s a crappy website, I’m going to think that this person does not care about the work that they do.”

This Thursday, in our monthly PI Education webinar, I’ll be talking to California investigator Tim Santoni about best practices for business development. Study up by reading his practical and detailed article from last fall, then join us at this link on Thursday at 11:30a.m. CST.

In closing, a few thoughts from the PI Education and Pursuit Magazine studio:

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Hal Humphreys is executive editor of Pursuit Magazine and founder/lead investigator of [FIND] Investigations, a PI agency in Nashville, TN. In his spare time, he's also a writer, radio producer, hiker, and fly fisherman. Visit his website at findinvestigations.com or follow him on Twitter: @FINDPI
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