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Whatever it may be, whether we blog about business, education, marketing, social media – SOPA affects us all. In light of today’s widely protested issue, SOPA, this infographic takes a look at the world without Wikipedia – a world of information in itself – could be lost.
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Give it a try and stay current with Pursuit Magazine while on the go!
It is important to note that We are still trying to find a way to bring a more mobile friendly version of our online private investigator magazine to internet capable mobile phone users not using touch-enabled web browsers listed above. A .mobi version of the site is not too far away.
There are many exciting things developing at Pursuit Magazine these days and many things yet to come!
We launched our Private Investigator Jobs board several weeks ago and have attracted both Job Seekers and Employers in equal numbers. The investigation career part of our portal is proving to be an extremely valuable addition to the community and we are getting really incredible reviews as new jobs are being added every day.
Our Pursuit Magazine Facebook Fan Page continues to grow by 10 or 12 people every day without a great deal of effort and we are appreciative of everyone who is becoming actively involved in contributing to the community. The fan page initially served as one of the ways we let our subscribers know when we posted new articles, but it has grown into a great deal more than that at this point; ideas are being discussed more fully, people are offering suggestions on how to continually improve and best of all, the support encouragement we receive makes it a worthwhile project for me.
If you are on Facebook and have a professional interest in private investigation, bail enforcement, process serving, repossession, security and skip tracing, then check out the fan page…
We are getting traffic from all over the world now as our online PI magazine is now available in 7 languages including Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, English and Russian- making us the only TRUE international PI Magazine. We are welcoming, on average, well over 4,500 unique visitors everyday now and have in excess of 6,200 subscribers to our RSS feed through FeedBurner.
And as promised, we have several new features coming to Pursuit Magazine very shortly… I’d tell you, but I’d hate to ruin the surprise.
Just stay tuned!
PIEducation.com today announced the formal acceptance by the Supreme Court of Arizona of its online Arizona process server continuing education course.
PIEducation.com’s online course titled, Advanced Skip Tracing Techniques for Professional Process Servers,
written by veteran private investigator and skip tracing expert L.
Scott Harrell, has been approved for ten hours of CE credit.
Process servers certified by the Arizona Supreme Court must obtain 10 hours of continuing education every year in order to maintain their certification and can meet their total education requirement for the year
with this one course.
In business since July 1, 2002, PIEducation.com is the undisputed market leader in state-approved online continuing education for private investigators and adding course content for process servers was a natural fit. All courses have been designed "by working Investigators… for working Investigators" and no other online continuing education provider can honestly make that claim. We understand that there are other education service providers to choose from. However, you will find that there is no other continuing education service provider that can match our level of professionalism, experience and consistency.
As of January 2010, PIEducation.com has conferred over 52,000 CE hours to
over 4,400 licensees in twelve (12) states including Texas, Tennessee,
Oklahoma, Oregon, Kansas, Kentucky, South Carolina, New Mexico,
Georgia, Louisiana, Iowa and now, Arizona.
For more information, please visit PIEducation.com's Continuing education for Arizona Process Servers FAQ page.
I am looking for some good articles for the November issue of our very popular e-zine, Pursuit Magazine.
Would you like to write an article and be published in Pursuit? Currently over 1,200 investigators subscribe to Pursuit and a few thousand more have downloaded the current edition and are reading all of our past articles. Being published in an industry trade journal is great for marketing, networking, search engine placement and getting your name out there! Unlike with traditional magazines, when you write an article for Pursuit it will continue to work for you for years to come- as long as our website is operational and people are reading past issues! Just write us a short article between 250 and 600 words and we’ll review it for a future issue of Pursuit.
Our next issue is all about Internet Research / Data Mining and Legal Research but we are interested in off topic articles as well and need articles for our featured skip tracing, process serving, bail enforcement and litigation spotlight sections. This will be a great issue to get into because our newly redesigned website will go "live" in late October and we are planning a great deal of publicity around that event. There are a few additional features that I can not let out of the bag until our new site is posted but rest assured that authors will get greater than average exposure during this short window of time.
Submit all articles with a by-line (a short introduction of the author and his or her contact information) by October 15, 2008 for the November issue to:
info at compasspointpi.com
Put in subject line: "Pursuit Magazine Article"
Please feel free to repost this request as appropriate.
P.S. Business card submissions from subscribers are encouraged and it’s FREE! Subscribe now (also FREE) and send us a copy of your business card and I will publish the first 12 entries from subscribers in our November issue.
For more Information:
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The Journal of Professional Excellence for Investigators
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http://therapistinboulder.com/
Is that "The Rapist in Boulder" or "Therapist in Boulder."
At first glance I thought it was the former.
I found this URL while doing a reverse IP check on one of my shared hosting plans and just had to share…
I hate domainers. They’re like the asshole of the Internet. I really, really hate them.
Cybersquatters really; they’re taking up all the best URLs and clogging up the World Wide Web with crap.
Take my experience today for example: So I’ve decided to create a new blog about phishing and post each phishing email I get for content so I need to find a really good website address, something that kind of fits my character and sense of humor. So I start the usual search by typing the URL I really want, gonephishing.com, into my web browser hoping to get an error message indicating that the website does not exist and then I could go and register it, but HELL NO- I get one of those typical domainer web pages that has all of the "related searches" links that take you to a Google ad sense page where they hope I’ll click on another link and Google or Yahoo will pay them a few cents for the click.
At least this site didn’t create a zillion pop-up and pop-under ads and redirect my browser to a penis enlargement or Adult Friend Finder site.
Domainers typcially rely upon "type in traffic," meaning that they are betting on Internet users to type the exact URL into their web browser in order to land upon the site.
There is no question about it- some Domainers make A LOT of money but they have to own thousands of premium names or typos (hoping that you’ll mis-type or mis-spell a popular website address) but damn… gonephishing.com???
Who’d just type that in, except for maybe me? I wouldn’t be so pissed off if the domain owner at least had the courtesy to put a price tag on it or indicate that the domain is for sale.
So I moved on and have found all of the following URLs are also taken too:
gone-phishing.com
deepseaphishing.com
phishing101.com
flyphishing.com
phishingemail.com
smellsphishy.com
smellslikephish.com
somethingphishy.com
gophish.com
bigphish.com
I could go on and on but it appears useless…
So what’s the f’n point of registering gonephishing.com if the owner couldn’t hope for even a decent amount of type-in traffic and the domain is apparently not for sale?
Yes, Dear Reader, I’m quite sure that the point is simply to piss El Scott Harrell off and the owner of gonephishing.com, Gregg Ostrick of GNO, Inc. of Birmingham, AL has done just that today.
Hence today’s well-deserved voodoo hex of the moment on Mr. Ostrick, specifically, and other domainers, in general, who own URLs that I have wanted in the past or may want in the future.
voodoo. vooDOO. VOODOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Voodoo on you Gregg Ostrick for being a domainer. Voodoo on you too domainers for registering millions of domain names and posting infinite amounts of useless garbage on web, all so you can make 2 or 3 cents from some moron who takes the bait and clicks on a Google ad sense link.
This search has left me hexausted so I’ve finally settled on SmellsPhishyToMe.com. Check it out.
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The July issue of Pursuit Magazine for Private Investigators is posted and available for download.
Just click on the "Current Issue" button located on the left side of the page.
This issue is about technology and its application to the investigation industries. We’ve lined up a few great authors, like Tom Slovenski of CellularForensics.com and James M. Atkinson of the Granite Island Group & TSCM.com, who provided extremely interesting articles which I am sure you will find enlightening.
I would like to ask you a favor. Would you please tell a colleague (or two) about Pursuit Magazine?
If you are in an association or in an online newsgroup, perhaps you could mention it to other members?
We could toot our own horn all day but the power of "word of mouth" advertising cannot possibly be understated and it would be a huge help for us in attracting a diverse group of readers and building a community magazine!
Pursuit is a magazine for bail enforcement agents, fugitive recovery agents, bail fugitive investigators, bounty hunters, bail agents and bondsmen, paralegals, legal investigators, skip tracers, judgement recovery professionals, collateral recovery agents and repo men and other professional investigators.
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Yes, it has been a long while since I have posted here but I heard from an old friend today who called me out of the blue and said how much he had enjoyed my blog when I was actively posting.
I heard the same thing from a competitor (and new friend) a few weeks ago.
So there must be something to this and perhaps I should breathe new life into it and resume being the crazy zealot I was just a few months ago- afterall, calling people out and keeping you all laughing is as much a mission as being a great husband, private investigator, mentor and soon to be father can be.
So much has happened to me in the last few months that it would be impossible to really catch up here but I would say the single greatest thing that has happened to me personally is that I found out that I am going to be a father soon- sometime in May to be exact. It is a girl and we do have a name picked out. It is the most beautiful name a woman could ever hope for I think- but of course that will remain private for now.
No, it is not going to be Stella- my wife fought me tooth and nail on that one despite the pleas from several others who also believe it is a beautiful name. In the end she just couldn’t bear the thought that I might be naming my daughter after our favorite beer, Stella Artois, and that I wanted to name a female Yellow Labrador we almost adopted last September Stella as well.
She did give in and agree that if we had another girl that we could name her Stella- sometimes it’s about victory in the small battles.
I am excited but scared to death as well. Ready or not… SHE IS COMING.
Continuing on with personal development, I have been reconnecting with my little sister too. What a cool chick she has become- and a truly beautiful woman also. She is really f’n funny, articulate and loves to laugh. She is raising a really special daughter and dealing with the toughest teenage years with her right now all the while having fun with her friends and maintaining a seriously professional career. Now she told me that she is pregant and due sometime in the late summer and she sounds really happy with everything going on in her life. I kick myself in the ass for letting so much time go by without catching up with her and feeling a little love from lil’ sista every once in a while.
Professionally speaking, the greatest thing which has happened since my last post is that I have added the best office manager a man could have ever hoped for. She is a damn smart, motivated- workaholic with some serious Office Ninja skills. All of our clients love her and she keeps me and the investigators in line and productive. I seriously could not ever pay her what she is worth but in time she will become a great private investigator too.
She has pumped up our marketing efforts 3 fold, streamlined many of our continuing education processes, added insight into the legal community (she is a former paralegal) and even screens out the psycho-nut-cases with aplomb. In recent developments, she created an incredible newsletter for professional investigators, Pursuit Magazine, which is going to speak volumes on behalf of CompassPoint Investigations. Click the link to check out our first issue posted at PursuitMag.com!
Further showcasing her talents, she has gotten us onto MySpace with a very professional looking site. CompassPoint Investigations on MySpace I am pretty excited about that one since, in addition to furthering the recognition of CPI, it has already allowed me to reconnect with some old friends from high school and the military. I could go on and on about how great Stephanie is, but words just seem trivial.
There you have it- two new ladies in my life, personally and professionally, and reconnecting with my sister.
How could a guy get so lucky?
Additional professional interests: Anthony Oliver: I wonder if he ever went to court on his domestic assault charge? The answer was NO as of 4/4/08 but I am working on that personally.
More coming over the next few days, I promise. (I smell a good ‘ol fashioned Voodoo Hex coming on soon too. Can you say leaky McDonald’s cups and the morons who cannot seem to afix the lid to the cup without making an absolute mess of it all? VERY HEX WORTHY.)
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The most common definition of a fugitive is a person who is fleeing from legal custody, whether it be from an arrest to someone who is sought for questioning. However it may also mean someone who flees from an uncongenial situation or a synonym of the adjective "fleeting" which precisely the way I feel right now. In a crazy twist of fate, ownership of the URL Fugitives.com recently landed in my lap and I have been a bit tortured over it ever since. Let me explain:
The two choices available to me regarding what to do with the domain are pretty apparent:
Put Fugitives.com up for sale or develop the website for traffic and then monetize the site using any number of pay per click, affiliate, merchandising or direct advertising sale programs.
Obviously, the domain is a very valuable one word, generic, aged (continuously registered since 1997) well-placed domain with a lot of type-in traffic but I really like the idea of putting together a huge single stop resource featuring a ton of most wanted fugitives from the Federal, State and Local law enforcement levels.
The former choice sounds ideal, but finding a buyer with the ability to pay what the URL is worth will be difficult at best- these people are hard to find though I realize that they are not hiding. It would probably be more rewarding over the long run to develop the site but that will require time and resources I simply do not have right now trying to keep up with an already very busy private investigation agency- therein lies my quandry.
Perhaps finding a partner with the talent to handle the development of the site but does not want the risk associated with the domain purchase would be best. Finding a person or company who fits the description may be as difficult as finding America’s most wanted fugitives, however.
I am yet undecided but stay tuned, good things are happening with this new resource in the fight against crime and most wanted criminals everywhere. www.fugitives.com
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