Be a Professional on the Phone
by ServeNow.com Staff

When your phone rings, you should look at it as an opportunity to promote your process serving business and interact with clients. Your phone is your main source of communication with your clients, and many times how a client will make their first impression of you. Don't lose business because of poor phone skills.

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State and government contracts can provide process servers and investigators with steady, recurring revenue. Many ServeNow.com and PInow.com advertisers have been awarded contracts such as these as a result of being listed with us.

Government agencies advertise RFP's (request for proposal) for these contracts. As a free service to you, we provide the details of these contracts as they become available.

Would you like to be notified of Government Contract RFP's as they become available? If so, please join the following groups:

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Current Process Serving & Investigative Bid Opportunities

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Fresno, CA
Agency: Housing Authority
Description: The HACCF is accepting proposals for firms or individuals to perform criminal background checks, credit report checks and eviction checks.
Bid Due Date: September 30, 2009
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The following articles, written specifically for the process serving and investigation industry, were featured in previous issues of the ServeReport.

Business
	Staying Safe On the Job (Aug. 2009)
	Grow and brand your business with ProcessServers.com (Jul. 2009)
	What Counts When Collecting (Jun. 2009)
	Competing on Value or Price? (May. 2009)
	60 Minutes To a More Professional Process Serving Business (May. 2009)
	Use Technology To Your Advantage (Apr. 2009)
	Roadmap to Success: Leadership, Technology and Professionalism (Mar. 2009)
	Thomas Ruskin: From NYPD to PI (Feb. 2009)
	Six Ways to Thrive in 2009 (Jan. 2009)
	Top Ten Tax Tips Before the Year Ends (Dec. 2008)
	Six Items to Put on Your Holiday Wish List (Dec. 2008)
	Your Business Card, Your Brand (Nov. 2008)
	Preparing Your Business for Sale (Sep. 2008)
	Why Offer Process Serving? (Aug. 2008)
	Six Ways to Run Your Business More Efficiently (Jul. 2008)
	When Hiring a Full-Time Employee is Not an Option (Jun. 2008)
	Roadmap to Success: Paula Ashcraft's Growth and Sale of Her Business (May. 2008)
	Ways to Recession-Proof Your Process Serving or Investigation Business (Apr. 2008)
Data Providers
	Choosing and Using Data Providers (Jun. 2007)
	An Easy Source of Additional Revenue for Servers (Jun. 2007)
Government Contracts and RFPs
	The Benefits of Securing Government Contracts (Aug. 2006)
	Determining Which Contracts are Right for You (Aug. 2006)
	Responding to a Request for Proposal (Aug. 2006)
Insurance
	Know What's in Your Insurance Policy (Nov. 2005)
	Investigator & Process Server Insurance Primer (Sep. 2005)
Marketing
	Social Media? What's That, and Why Do I Need It? (Jul. 2009)
	Five Tips to Try When Your Website Isn't Ranking (Oct. 2008)
	500 New Potential Clients Per Year (Oct. 2007)
	Referrals: The Power of Word-of-Mouth Marketing (Sep. 2007)
	Don't Let Another Process Server or Investigator Steal Your Name! (Aug. 2007)
	Why Join Your State Associations? (Aug. 2007)
	Marketing Effectiveness for Process Servers & Investigators (Jan. 2006)
	Growing Your Process Serving and Investigation Business (Feb. 2005)
Software
	Analyzing Process Server Software Functionality (Jul. 2008)
	Process Server Software: Benefits and Options (Jul. 2005)

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Below you will find a list of upcoming industry events. For detailed information, please click on the links below.

If you have information on upcoming events or have articles you would like to contribute to the ServeReport please email us at info@serve-now.com or call (877) 737-8366

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The ServeNow.com and PInow.com Member badges were created for advertising members to place on their home page. Thousands of legal professionals use ServeNow.com and PInow.com on a daily basis to find process servers and investigators. These brands are synonymous with process serving and investigation services - displaying these graphics on your site can lend credibility to your business.

Please visit the links below for the HTML code to place the following icons on your site.

ServeNow.com Member Badge	PInow.com Member Badge
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ProcessServers.com Member Badge
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If would like more information on joining the web's most visited and most trusted resources for finding process servers and investigators call us at (877) 737-8366 or visit us online.

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