Human
beings are predisposed to learn things practically than theoretically. No
matter how many articles I may write about the benefits of using Facebook as a
private investigator or how to use it to position yourself to your target
market, you will not take my word for it unless you hear it first hand from your
fellow private investigator inSingapore Facebook believe it is due to the saying that seeing is
believing. Human beings tend to follow the tried and tested way and many do not
want to tread the road less travelled for fear of the unknown. Well, fret not!
I have some inspiring testimonies from Singapore private investigators that use
Facebook not only to socialize but also to help them in their private
investigation endeavours. One of those private investigators I spoke to was
Elvira. Elvira has been a private investigator in Singapore and around the
Asian continent for the past ten years. She decided to join Facebook two years
ago so that she can use as a marketing tool. She writes a blog on private
investigation and she used to post the links on her Facebook profile and more
and more traffic was received on her blog. That enabled her to bag herself some
few more clients from her Facebook profile and in addition to that, giving
seminars on online privacy, infidelity investigations and importance of due
diligence by posting her YouTube link on her wall earned her some more clients
who included attorneys who retained her as a consultant. If used cleverly,
Facebook can help you gain more clients and job opportunities like in Elvira’s
case.
Su
Yung had been contracted by a husband who suspected his wife of having
clandestine affairs. Through his network of professional acquaintances and
friends, he was encouraged to do some of his investigation on Facebook. After
much prodding and encouragement from colleagues who were already in Facebook,
Su Yung became a private investigatorin Singapore Facebook by creating a profile page with fake photos and put
up information that would entice the client’s wife to add him as a friend as
they would have the same interests in common. After the client’s wife accepted
his friend request, he had the opportunity to collect as much information from
her status updates as well as posts on her wall and her photos. He noted that
most of the photos on her albums were of a man who was not her husband and they
seemed to be quite intimate pictures. Luckily, the man had been tagged on the
photos so all he had to do was do a background check on the man and he set up
surveillance on him as well as the wife. He did get the evidence he needed to
catch the cheating wife, and if it was not for joining Facebook and snooping
around the client’s wife Facebook profile, he would have never known the man
existed as they met out if town when she was on business trips. Su Yung
cautions that Facebook will not get you all the information you need, and you
will be required to do some more digging through other sources, but it does
provide a starting point when you have no idea where to begin searching.
The
beauty of being a private investigatorin Singapore Facebook is that you will get a chance to network with
your colleagues and ask for help whenever necessary. Sharifa and Deepak are
part of the same network on a Facebook page that brings about private
investigators in Singapore. They say that through that network, they have been
able to increase in knowledge on the new investigative techniques as well as
learn new skills and get a chance to attend seminars organized by the more
seasoned private investigators in their network. Sharifa and Deepak have also
gotten a chance to collaborate on a number of cases as each one of them have
different investigative skill sets that when brought together make an amazing
partnership. They are in fact on the processes of setting up a privateinvestigation agency that they will run jointly. If it was not for joining
Facebook and the network of private investigators in Facebook, they would never
have met and they would also have never gotten the chance to interact with
other investigators and shared knowledge and acquire new skills and
investigative techniques. Facebook is a good tool for marketing, networking and
conducting investigations. Just make sure you adhere to the principles and
ethics that govern the private investigation industry in Singapore and you are
good to go!
