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As many of you know by now, I sold the ELG forum to WAPI. There are a couple of reasons for this and I will explain below why I did it.

When I co-founded ELG with Neil Sheppard in August 2007, we had a vision that the forum would be a community where those of us in the trade could hang out, teach and learn from each other. Four years on, our community grew from nothing to nearly 600 members, most of which are practicing private investigators. All the other eGroups looked on with ...

It is widely known that clients prefer fixed fee agreements for instructions but, in general, Private Investigators still prefer an hourly rate on the basis of charging a fair day’s fee for a fair days work. Moreover, there is always the question of mileage costs (bearing in mind the cost of fuel these days) and out of pocket expenses (which on most occasions are not easy to estimate in an on-going assignment). With these considerations in mind can PIs address their client’s demands and offer fixed ...

Before the advent of web 2.0 many businesses didn’t have a website. In those days building a website was no easy task. It was an expensive undertaking and was the sole domain of the professional web designer. Things have moved on since then and now there aren’t many businesses in the market place that don’t have a web site. Many private investigation agencies have produced their own web sites using the many WYSIWYG web design software packages on the market.

Nowadays things have ...

What is Asset Stealth?

Asset stealth, asset protection or ‘hiding your money’ is nothing new. Taking steps to preserve your wealth is something that is probably older than the concept of money itself. It was common practice for sharecroppers during the ‘dark ages’ to hide a significant portion of their harvest to avoid some of the levy placed on them by the wealthy land owners. These days asset stealth has taken on new meaning and has developed into a multi-billion pound industry ...

Generally, corruption consists of bribery, kickbacks, extortion and conflicts of interest. These types of activities involve some kind of inducement in return for some sort of advantage (usually financial) or perhaps preferential treatment, a relationship that has not been disclosed can literally net someone a financial, operational or strategic advantage.

There is little doubt that corruption can deprive businesses and companies, their owners and employees of honest services. It ...