PI’s Declassified!

What do you do when you fail to meet your client’s expectations? What do you do when you can’t deliver what you promised? Do you make excuses, cover it up, or just cease communicating with the belief you have done everything you can do? Or, do you advise your client at the onset of the case that there are no promises, guarantees, and there may be potential risks in the investigation you are embarking on their behalf? Brian Willingham is a Licensed Private Investigator and popular PI blogger. Tune in to hear Brian address how he communicates with his client when all investigative efforts take a nose-dive.

Does the idea of running a paperless office give you anxiety? Wouldn’t you like to know how two successful private investigators achieved operating an office without paper? Private Investigators Chris Reynolds and Chris Woodson have done just that! Of course, this concept has application to any office anywhere, not just to a private investigator’s office. Tune in to hear these two experienced PI’s discuss the upside and downside of running a paperless office.

Have you ever thought you need an interpreter to communications with the attorney for whom you were providing services? Have you experienced either miscommunication or misinterpretation? Is assistance required to decipher instructions from your attorney-client? Anthony Zinnanti is an attorney and will discuss tips to work with this rare breed legal professional.

Ferreting out fraud, recovering abducted children, locating witnesses for criminal or civil cases, identifying counterfeit products are just some of the many services provided by private investigators. One of the most significant tools in an investigator’s tool box is access to databases of information. Always controversial, these databases that compile information about all of us can come from the government or from the private sector. Scott Wilson is the Director of Sales for IRBsearch and will discuss the ins and outs of access to data and how it relates to the propriety products offered by IRBsearch.

Private investigator Steven Rambam has paid his dues. For over thirty years, he has relentlessly pursued his client’s interests across U.S. and international borders, often at considerable personal risk. Today, he is known for locating almost 200 Nazi war criminals and collaborators, hosting “No Where to Hide” on the Identification Discovery Channel with real life stories of investigating fraud and deceit, and being the technical advisor for Kinky Friedman’s murder mystery series. He has worked to curtail terrorist fund raising, and he conducts and coordinates countless private investigator activities. Tune in to hear Steve Rambam: he has stories to tell.

Do you have a protection plan for the members of your family? For yourself? Do you have a security strategy for your employees? An area where private investigators often become involved is executive protection, although, the need for protection is no longer limited to at-risk executives. Today, with the myriad of threats facing us, we need to develop a comprehensive security plan. Tune in to hear Private Investigator Leon Lee Ives, the author of Vanished: How to Protect Yourself and Your Children, provide his step-by-step recommendations to create a safety net for your family and your business.

Private investigators are often charged with ferreting out workers compensation fraud, identifying those who produce counterfeit products, recovering parental-abducted children, gathering evidence for child custody cases, and a variety of other undercover assignments. What can you do if you are the minority in a neighborhood or if there is simply no place where you won’t be noticed? How do you keep the target of your investigation and those around them from knowing you are watching, particularly in this age of hyper-awareness? Tune in to hear St. Louis Private Investigator Billy Reynolds discuss his creative tips for hiding in plain sight.

With rapidly changing laws in employment background screening, what is the future for employers in their hiring procedures? Tools used by employers, background screeners, and private investigators are vanishing rapidly, only to leave employers with limited resources to protect their businesses. Background screening and human resource management expert, Barry Nixon, will discuss this troubling trend.

What do you do when you need to mitigate a controversy for yourself or a case you are investigating? Whether you are a Fortune 500 CEO, university chancellor, celebrity, politician, athlete, attorney or even an individual private investigator, where do you go for advice, particularly when there is high-profile exposure? You may need an expert to provide you tactical guidance, or you may require a behind-the-scenes process to gain positive publicity, to hold the media accountable for erroneous or distorted reporting, and a vehicle to proactively tell your story. Award-winning investigative reporter, Glenn Bunting, knows how the media thinks and operates. Tune in to hear Glenn share his skills and expertise using both traditional and new media tools to get your message heard.

Skiptracers have a key role in the health of the economy. Those who grant credit cannot operate unless paid, and when unable to collect a debt, companies sell severely past-due accounts to debt buyers or collection agencies. Others, like private investigators, process servers, repossessors and fugitive recovery agents also need to locate people. These people can range from those not attempting to hide to those who skip intentionally to avoid a debt to the hardcore fraudsters who never intend to pay. Private Investigator Michael “Mike” Dores has spent over 30 years tracking people and he is skilled in both the techniques and the laws surrounding the process. Tune in to hear expert skiptracer Mike Dores talk about how skiptracing has changed during his career and provide suggestions, tips and techniques to trace the skip.