Get Your Investigation Business on the Map with Local Search

You may have heard the term “local search” recently and wondered what it is and how it can help your private investigator business. Local search basically ensures that people can find your business online when searching for local terms such as “Private Investigator Denver” or wherever your business may be located. This is accomplished through optimizing your Google Places, Yahoo! Local and Bing Local profiles, and then submitting your business to Superpages, YellowPages, DexKnows, 411.com, WhitePages and more than 100 other sites. So when people search for your key terms, your business shows up.

In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how local search benefits your business and how the submission process works.

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How Private Investigators Can Use Written Reports As A Marketing Tool

Professional report writing is a skill that can be a killer for some private investigators. It must be composed only of facts and not contain wording that can be misleading or require interpretation.

Report writing skills are extremely important to your professional and personal reputation. When you do things correctly your reputation will remain intact. If you do things incorrectly, it may cost you clients.

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Social Media: A Multi-Purpose Investigation and Profit-Making Tool

“Tweeting’s for the birds,” a private investigator recently griped. “No way you’re gonna catch me on Twitter.”

If I told him Twitter, and other social networking sites, could attract new clients, aid finding people and evidence, as well as professionally brand his business, think he’d re-think his stance?

Successful PIs are good listeners. Cases have been solved just from listening to what people say about each other and themselves. When you funnel those words into digital gathering places, add indicators to locations and other information, and provide opportunities to promote and build clientele, the result is a multi-purpose investigation and profit-making social media tool for private investigators.


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Social Media Expert Offers Skip Tracing Tips for Private Investigators

Modern-day private investigators have more tools at their fingertips than ever before. Where they used to have to comb through phone books and interview neighbors, colleagues, ex-lovers, friends and family to track someone down, now they may need only log in to Facebook or Twitter.

They don’t even have to be in the same city, state or country as the person they’re tracking. A private investigator with a smart phone can theoretically run skip traces on subjects in Minnesota from a sunny beach in Hawaii.

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Glenn Mulcaire - The Man They Called 'Trigger'

Glenn Mulcaire always knew how to deliver. Watch the News of the World's former private investigator in happier times, scoring a tasty goal with the left. It was the first goal for AFC Wimbledon – the club formed after the old Wimbledon moved up to Milton Keynes. They called him 'Trigger' as a result of that.

And for die hard Mulcaire fans, you can hear the man speak at the end of the 2002 video. I think I can detect a certain easy charm there, which was no doubt helpful when he moved on to other things.

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PI ’close to solving E.Cape murder of Dewani family friend’

A private investigator has revealed he is close to cracking a case in which an Eastern Cape doctor was murdered several years ago.

Pox Raghavjee was shot dead in Bhisho in 2007.

It recently emerged he was family friends with Shrien Dewani’s parents. This prompted South African authorities to investigate a possible link between the Raghavjee matter and the killing of Dewani’s wife, Anni, in Cape Town in 2010.

However, Private Investigator Christian Botha said there is no evidence suggesting the link.


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Police Save Private Investigator from Client

NHLANGANO - There was drama as an irate taxi driver attacked and allegedly threatened to assault controversial private investigator Doctor Myeni.

The incident happened on Saturday at around 2pm and the prompt response of two armed Nhlangano police saved what could have been a nasty ending.

The furious man, who cannot be named for now as he has not been charged, is said to have stormed Myeni’s offices demanding answers over a case he was investigating and further accused him of interference.

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Ada County Commissioner Hires Private Detective

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A newly elected Ada County commissioner has hired a private detective to investigate a sitting commissioner.

Vern Bisterfeldt hired the detective last month to investigate Sharon Ullman.

Bisterfeldt tells the Idaho Statesman that e-mails he received prompted him to hire the detective, but he won't elaborate about the e-mails.

He also won't say what the detective has found, if anything.

Ullman says she welcome's the hiring of the detective because she has nothing to hide.


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News of the World Executive Suspended Over Alleged Phone Hacking

A senior News of the World executive has been suspended following a "serious allegation" related to phone hacking.

Ian Edmondson, the title's assistant editor (news), was suspended before Christmas, shortly after the Guardian obtained court documents which alleged he had asked private investigator Glenn Mulcaire to hack into phones belonging to actress Sienna Miller and her staff. Miller is suing the paper's parent company News Group Newspapers.

The News of the World confirmed in a statement today that Edmondson, who was hired by former editor Andy Coulson, had been suspended on full pay. Coulson is now David Cameron's director of communications.

"A serious allegation has been made about the conduct of a member of the News of the World staff," the paper said.

"We have followed our internal procedures and we can confirm that this person was suspended from active duties just before Christmas.

The paper added that it is carrying out its own internal investigation into the allegation and that "appropriate action will be taken" if they are found to be true.

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Private Investigator's License Takes Work to Obtain

Does the idea of sitting in cars for hours at a time, conducting computer checks and taking pictures with miniature cameras sound like fun? Before you go into the field of private investigation, be warned:

It's not as easy as it looks.

In Pennsylvania, you need to have worked for the FBI, state police, local police or a private investigator's office, according to Wanda Heitzman, who works for the Northampton County courts. But you can't be an active law enforcement officer and hold a private investigator's license, she says.

All applicants for a license have to be at least 25 years old and submit to fingerprinting. Then there's a background check from the district attorney's office, Heitzman says. No one with a felony conviction can get licensed.

"They go through everything with a fine-tooth comb and make sure everything's above-board," she says.

If it gets that far, applicants appear before a judge and provide proof that they're bonded for $10,000. "It's very seldom anybody's ever declined," Heitzman says.

While many investigators come from a law enforcement or military background, Matt Brown, owner of Lehigh Valley Detective Agency, started out working for another private detective agency for eight years before getting his license. He says the rigors of Northampton County's process helps ensure quality.

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