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Go here:
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All union members in-good-standing should begin receiving their free subscriptions starting in eight weeks.

NOT A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR UNION MEMBER YET?
Click here: Free details link

• Make sure your email box is the same email box we have for you at this web forum site. Simply go to the top of this page and click on the option titled USER CP.

  
  

• Then look for the email area and verify your email is current. OTHERWISE, you will miss the FREE MAGAZINE INVITATION EMAILS we will be sending out over the next few days.

  
  

• If your email box has Spam Protection, make sure you permit ALL emails to be delivered to your INBOX from any emails from www.ipiu.org .

  
  

• Caution: IPIU never emails any attachments to the emails. We always use text emails with links that may take you back to our website. If you receive any phony emails that claim to be from IPIU and they have attachments, either run a virus check or delete them.
  

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[SIZE="4"]Want to provide your Email or Website to other PI's?[/SIZE]

Your approval qualifies you for a pi-agency.us email address, such as william.reagan@pi-agency.us (sample) , where an email will be sent to you when a potential client seeks to retain you.

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If you would like to have an approved custom FREE banner placed on your web site (or request a home page if you do not have one), and receive preapproval for providing an email address to other private investigators, please email banner.application@ipiu.org .

The International Private Investigators Union (IPIU) announces an approved Membership Banner, including the free option to provide an email address to other private investigators to contact you.

SAMPLE WEB PAGES with IPIU Banner:

www.longislandinvestigation.com

www.checkmate.pi-agency.us

www.disigreyareas.com

www.donald.robinson.pi-agency.us/

This is now available to private investigators, case examiners, attorneys, and other forum and/or union members who either have their own web site or wish to obtain a free website or home page on their own or through their Management Union Plan with IPIU.

1) If you wish to announce your affiliation to visitors at your web site, you may request our Banner Department to email you (or your chosen web master) the following sample banner:

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2) Members who install the above banner will also receive:

THESE FREE BENEFITS:

• Your Forum SIGNATURE will be upgraded to include your website and an approved email contact.

  
  

• Your website visitors will be able to click on the red box to verify you are either a union member-in-good-standing (or a forum member), plus receive an online report of your conduct score. This is an excellent feature when establishing third-party certification of your character and personal professional code.

  
  

• Your personal IPIU SEAL.

  
  

• For union members, your web site will be featured by the IPIU Website as being an Endorsed Member. If your web site is an Agency Web Site, then you may apply for the Certified Endorsement.

  
  

• For union members, when IPIU receives requests from potential clients for your services (including process serving, court house document retrievals, background checks, investigations, or any of the fifty different types of inquiries), our system will refer the potential client directly to your web site link.

  
  

• Your approval also qualifies you for a free email address, such as william.reagan@pi-agency.us (sample) , where an email will be sent to you when a potential client seeks to retain you.

  
  

• For union members, your web site can receive free advertising as an endorsed website whenever IPIU advertises.

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If you would like to have the above approved banner placed on your web site (or request a home page if you do not have one), and receive preapproval for providing an email address to other private investigators, please email banner.application@ipiu.org .

NOTES:

• For non-union members who wish to have an IPIU Banner placed on their website, the banner will look very similar to the above sample.

  
  

• This offer is good for both personal and business web sites, subject to approval, which can substantially improve your creditability and reputation among your peers.

  
  

• If you do not have a website, there are numerous free web sites available, such as www.geocities.com .

  Or, if you wish to have a professional Private Investigators web site set up for as little as a $49 upgrade to your economy Preferred Union Plan, then consider the Management Plan today:

  LIMITED FREE OFFER: All Union Members who have the Management Union Plan can request a FREE WEB PAGE, with approved, email, banner, and all other benefits.

  Sample Management Member web page: http://www.donald.robinson.pi-agency.us/

  Details for Obaining a Professional Website today

  Or, request a free home page listing. (A "web site" is not just a "web page". A web site can contain hundreds of web pages, with numerous email accounts and other great benefits for as low as $7/month)

  
  

• For those interested in smaller logos and banners, the application process is still the same as mentioned above. However, the IPIU Art Department will be able to provide different sizes as they become available.
  

Don't have a web site for your private investigator's business?
MEMBER ONLY BONUS (For Management Members):

• FREE: Obtain your own custom web address name, such as www smith.pi-agency.us .

  
  

• Or, order your own custom web address name, such as www billsmith-pi.com (or whatever you prefer) for only dollars per year.

  
  

• Obtain a FREE private investigators home page, with FREE standard designs to choose from.

  Or, for as low as $6.99 per month, with additional web pages, personal commercial email, and many other great benefits.

To inquire, email banner.application@ipiu.org and ask for further details if you do not already have your own web page.

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1. INTERNET GUEST FORUM MEMBERSHIP: FREE TO ALL!

Register online by clicking on the button at the top of each page that is titled "Register." However, you must have a working e-mail box to receive your password. Includes access to approximately 16 discussion forums. (Some private forums are not available to Licensed PI's without applying for an upgraded membership).

Dues average $8.25/month and are billed at $99 for the first year for all licensed private investigators (or trainee interns), attorneys, insurance and legal investigators, process servers, bounty hunters, bail bondsmen, and all other individuals who wish to obtain all IPIU Benefits including:

• FREE Private Investigator Training Manual CD, Certifications, E-Books, PI Software, and other titles
  
• FREE client referrals and weekly assignment openings *
  
• FREE Continuing Education, Legal & Licensing Updates and Amendments
  
• FREE Access to over one hundred (100) endorsed Integrity Investigation firms who are hiring, including easy online applications for your assigned territory *
  
• FREE Training and Certification as a Federal Signal Theft Investigator, including on-the-job assignment opportunities *
  
• FREE annual subscriptions SEVEN (7) NEW FREE Investigative Subscriptions! (Revised).
  
• 10% to 48% cash-back credit on most IPIU products, books, and merchandise
  
• FREE Access to other private forums and free agency & employments referrals. See Level 3 & 4 Access Topic *
  
• Private Investigators Office as low as $5.95/month (receptionist, secretary, office & voice mail)
  
• DISCOUNTED Business Cards with exclusive IPIU Seal
  
• DISCOUNTED Third-Party Certification of earned hours for license
  

Click here for New Membership Order Form.

Click here to RENEW you membership Plan.

Or, you may call the Membership Department at 800-548-1526 and ask for Department 44.

Dues average about $12.50/month and are billed at $149 for the first year for all private investigators (or trainee interns), attorneys, insurance and legal investigators, process servers, bounty hunters, bail bondsmen, and all other individuals who wish to obtain all IPIU Benefits including:

• FREE Private Investigator Business Cards with exclusive IPIU seal or PI Book of the Year (Your choice)
  
• FREE Personalized PI Web Page & PI email for your career
  
• FREE PI Cash Coupons - worth up to 45% Off for PI items (a $1000 Value)
  
• FREE Educational Cash Grants for selected Advance Tuitions
  
• FREE 3rd-Party Certification of earned hours for PI licensing applications *
  
• FREE Private Investigator Photo Credentials Application with $10 Off coupon
  
• FREE PI Toll Free Phone Number Set-up for your clients (a $50 value)
  
• 25% to 45% discount (a $1000 value!) on most IPIU products, advanced training and private investigator-related books (over 700 titles), and merchandise
  
• FREE Private Investigator Training Manual CD
  
• FREE Advanced Training Chapters CD
  
• FREE Private Investigator E-Books
  
• FREE Private Investigator Software, and other titles
  
• FREE Client referrals *
  
• FREE Daily and Weekly PI assignment & employment openings *
  
• FREE Continuing Education, Legal & Licensing Updates and Amendments
  
• FREE Passcode Access to over one hundred (100) endorsed Integrity Investigation firms who are hiring, including easy online applications for your assigned territory *
  
• FREE Training and Certification as a Federal Signal Theft Investigator, including on-the-job assignment opportunities *
  
• FREE PI agency employment introductions & referrals *
  
• FREE annual subscriptions to SEVEN (7) NEW FREE Investigative & Security related Subscriptions! (Revised).
  
• FREE Access to other private forums and free agency & employments referrals. See Level 3 & 4 Access Topic *
  

Become a member using a credit card at our secured website:

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Click here for Membership Order Form.

[SIZE="3"]OR,RENEW YOURSELF, GO HERE:[/SIZE]
Click here to RENEW you membership Plan.

Or, you may call the Membership Department at 800-548-1526 and ask for Department 44.

4. AGENCY MEMBERSHIP: (Available to Agencies only)
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Dues average $12.50/month and are billed at $150 per year and includes a Preferred Economy Membership for the owner and Associate Membership applications for all agency employees (see below). This program is also for law firms, insurance companies, private investigative agencies, bail enforcement or bail bond agencies, and all other companies who wish to obtain all of IPIU Agency Office Benefits - including free client & assignment referrals and access to other private forums.

Become a member using a credit card at our secured website:

Click here for Membership Order Form.

Or you may call the Membership Department at 800-548-1526 and ask for Department 44.

5. AGENCY MANAGEMENT MEMBERSHIP: (Available to Agencies only)
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Dues average $16.50/month and are billed at $199 per year and includes a Management Membership for the owner and Associate Membership applications for all agency employees (see below). This program is also for law firms, insurance companies, private investigative agencies, bail enforcement or bail bond agencies, and all other companies who wish to obtain all of IPIU Agency Office Benefits - including free client & assignment referrals and access to other private forums.

Become a member using a credit card at our secured website:

Click here for Membership Order Form.

Or you may call the Membership Department at 800-548-1526 and ask for Department 44.

6. ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP : (Must be w-2 employee of Agency Membership or Executive Agency Membership)
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50% OFF the Preferred Economy Membership:

• FREE Private Investigator E-Books, PI Software, and other titles
  
• FREE client referrals and weekly assignment openings *
  
• FREE Continuing Education, Legal & Licensing Updates and Amendments
  
• FREE Access to over one hundred (100) endorsed Integrity Investigation firms who are hiring, including easy online applications for your assigned territory *
  
• FREE Training and Certification as a Federal Signal Theft Investigator, including on-the-job assignment opportunities *
  
• FREE annual subscriptions SEVEN (7) NEW FREE Investigative Subscriptions! (Revised).
  
• 10% discount on most IPIU products, books, and merchandise
  
• FREE Access to other private forums and free agency & employments referrals. See Level 3 & 4 Access Topic *
  
• DISCOUNTED Business Cards with exclusive IPIU Seal
  
• DISCOUNTED Third-Party Certification of earned hours for license
  

Or, you may call the Membership Department at 800-548-1526 and ask for Department 44.

7. EXECUTIVE AGENCY MEMBERSHIP: (Union Plan Available FREE to selected Agencies only. One time Set-Up: $299)
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• If you wish to expand your agency market nationwide by sub-contracting or employing referred IPIU members (including licensed PIs) on an as-needed basis, then the Executive Membership is FREE to your agency (including your office employees).

  
  

• This is an excellent program for agencies who wish to go nationwide without any of the "nationwide expenses" of obtaining local operatives for as-needed short assignments.

  
  

• Includes your own free Agency Forum.

  
  

• Free access to other private forums and free client referrals.

  
  

• Free Agency Website, free agency domain (such as ace-investigations.com), and free agency email.

  
  

• A membership application can be provided by e-mailing your name, phone, mailing address, and a link to your agency's website (if applicable) to executive.app@ipiu.org .

Note 1: Additional free memberships are available to appointed moderators, teachers, and other individuals who contribute to the Mission Statement of the Private Investigators Forum. To inquire, email admin.support@ipiu.org .

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Oath & Code of Ethics Agreement Link

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[SIZE="5"]YOUR OATH,
COVENANTS,
CODE OF ETHICS,
Mission Statement,
And Forum Rules Agreement[/SIZE]

PURPOSE:

• The International Private Investigators Union, originally founded in 1989 as a non-profit organization - and formally incorporated in 1994, is a non-labor union association of private investigators, attorneys, case examiners, and other professionals - which include federal and local law enforcement officers - whose skills and talents embody undercover investigations.

  
  

• The Private Investigators Forum, sponsored by the International Private Investigators Union, is an interactive community where those who have an interest in private investigations and all other related professions (including leisure and lifestyles) can discuss and promote all aspects of the profession.

  
  

• Interactive discussions can include the expertise of private investigations, its training principles, legal reviews, statutes, services, education, products, referrals, and technical strategies that enhance the value those private investigators bring to their client base.

LICENSING, REGULATED & UNREGULATED EXEMPTIONS, TRAINING, NEWCOMERS:[list=a]

TO REGISTER FOR THE PI INTERNSHIP PROGRAM:
(Includes receiving your union Private Investigators Photo Credentials and choosing a Management Professional Union Plan)

Private Investigator Interns:

PRE-REFERRAL PROGRAM:

1 - If you do not currently possess a license as a private investigator, attorney, or certified police officer, you may request a FREE Information Packet with Application to be mailed to you - which includes a Criminal Records Registration (CRR) application (good for a 36-months to monitor professional conduct);

To receive a FREE Information Packet with Application,
CLICK HERE

Save time and money by prepaying for your CRR Electronic Registration using a credit or debit card with a

Priority Option:
CLICK HERE FOR SECURED SITE

2 - Upon acceptance of your CRR application and following initial screening, you will be provided with federal documents - which includes an FBI fingerprint card for your prints to be taken by a local law enforcement agency and Personal Identification Card; requirements for photo's for your IPIU Private Investigator Photo Credentials; a Code of Ethics (COE) pledge requiring signature; and a Benefits Letter explaining what benefits you have attained at this stage in the internship program.

Also after receipt of your CRR application, agencies will be notified that you are in processing, pending the completion of the Internship program and Training Manual open-book test. Agencies can be either regional, state, or national. If for some reason the agencies cannot be accept you at that time, then your original application will be returned and you will be placed on a waiting list;

3 - You will be sent your validated Private Investigator Photo Credentials, Private Investigator Operations Training Manual and open-book test, a Membership certificate, and a Benefits Letter explaining what additional benefits you have attained at this stage. Read through the Training Manual, take the test, and return it in for grading;

4 - Please allow 2-3 weeks mailing time of your test before you begin receiving your introductory assignment letters or access to the agencies that offer on-the-job paid training. Usually, your Forum Access will be upgraded within 14 days to permit you access to assignments that are available immediately in the private forums. You will also receive a training completion certificate, test results, and a Benefits Letter explaining what additional benefits you have attained at your final stage in the program.

We strongly encourage members to take a very active part in the Private Investigators Forum to align themselves with coaches and other professional private investigators from around the world, and to take advantage of the wealth of tips and strategies in making their career an exciting and interesting choice. Many agencies have asked IPIU to provide them with their own private assignment and training forum here at the website. Many agency owners, managers, and law firms read the forums, and pay attention to the trainee's progress in the use of these new tools and skills. If you have not already done so, please click on this topic link titled "Newcomers do this First" and follow the instructions: Click Here!

Remember, a humble and teachable attitude will get you miles ahead of the others who never achieve a success. (Arrogance will place you behind). So remember to show respect, and you will gain more positive opportunities in your pursuit to become a private investigator.

ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION:

1 - Again, if you do not have any of the above licenses or credentials, you may authorize an Electronic Registration by phone with the Registration Department requesting IPIU to begin a 36-month Criminal Records Registration screening. Although this requires the use of a credit/debit card or an e-check (personal check), you will not be charged any items if you cannot be accepted into the Internship program. This procedure can bypass the typical waiting time to receive the free Referral Application by 2-4 weeks. Electronic Registration can only be done with the use of your driver’s license to prove identification, your date of birth, and your mailing address for your union and federal documents to be mailed to you. Those items include the CRR application, and an FBI fingerprint card for your prints to be taken by a local law enforcement agency plus a Personal Identification Card; requirements for photo's for your IPIU Private Investigator Photo Credentials; and a Benefits Letter explaining what benefits you have attained at this stage in the internship program.

There is even an option to have your federal and other documents sent to you via Priority Handling within one business day, and is tracked for a 3-5 day delivery time instead of the normal 2-3 weeks.

Once you have been approved, agencies with will be notified that you are in processing, pending the completion of your Internship program and Training Manual open-book test. Agencies can be either regional, state, or national. If you cannot be accepted at that time, then your original application will be returned and you will be placed on a waiting list;

2 - After you return your CRR application, fingerprint or ID card, and photos, the security department will validate your documents and issue your IPIU Photo Credentials. You will then be sent your Private Investigator Photo Credential; a Code of Ethics (COE) pledge requiring signature, membership options for your IPIU association membership;and an optional Badge order form for the purchase of a professional Case Examiner badge.

3 - With your signed COE and membership option chosen and received, we will order and send you the Private Investigator Operations Training Manual with open-book test; a Membership certificate; and a Benefits Letter explaining what additional benefits you have attained at this stage. Read through the Training Manual, take the test, and return it in for grading;

4 - Please allow 2-3 weeks mailing time of your test before you begin receiving your introductory assignment letters to the agencies that offer on-the-job paid training. Usually, your Forum Access will be upgraded within 14 days to permit you access to assignments that are available immediately in the private forums. You will also receive a training completion certificate, test results, and a Benefits Letter explaining what additional benefits you have attained at your final stage in the program;

We strongly encourage members to take a very active part in the Private Investigators Forum to align themselves with coaches and other professional private investigators from around the world, and to take advantage of the wealth of tips and strategies in making their career an exciting and interesting choice. Many agencies have asked IPIU to provide them with their own private assignment and training forum here at the website. Many agency owners, managers, and law firms read the forums, and pay attention to the trainee's progress in the use of these new tools and skills. If you have not already done so, please click on this topic link titled "Newcomers do this First" and follow the instructions: Click Here!

Remember, a humble and teachable attitude will get you miles ahead of the others who never achieve a success. (Arrogance will place you behind). So remember to show respect, and you will gain more positive opportunities in your pursuit to become a private investigator.

Licensed Professionals:

You can become a member of IPIU and enjoy all the benefits the membership of your choice brings by visiting here: Click here for Membership options

We will send you membership documents to complete and sign including the Code of Ethics (COE) pledge. By returning these documents along with a photocopy of your state-issued license, you will have access to additional job postings and other employment opportunities. (You may include a state license as a private investigator, attorney, or certified police officer)

You will also have the option of receiving an IPIU Photo Credential and the Private Investigator Operations Training Manual as well.

I have 1 badge, 3 panel, silver with gold inserts... ready to ship to the 1st union member who calls me. $109.00.
800-518-1526

We received this general email from a prospective union member asking what the requirements are for Private Investigator Trainees.

He writes:

[i]"I would like to know some of the requirements of working as a private investigator in my area.

1) Will you require a high school diploma?

2) Will I have to take a test for the state?

3) Will you train me?

4) How much real world wages will be?"[/i]

Answers:

1) A high school diploma is no longer required, and neither is a GED. But you do need to have a high school reading, English, and basic math level because of the reports you will be filing at the conclusion of your assignments. (We have found that some high school graduates cannot spell or perform basic math skills, so the official requirement has been dropped.)

2) No state test, but there is an open-book examination you will take when you have received your training manual. We are more concerned with your general understanding in performance because most of the training is on-the-job. We also offer a free option to help you obtain a state private investigators license, including setting up your own agency.

3) Free Academic Training will be provided to union members through IPIU's free Basic Training and Advanced Manuals, free annual subscriptions to SEVEN (7) NEW FREE Investigative Subscriptions! (Revised), free access to over 150 private passcode forums, as well as other additional benefits. On-the-job paid training will be provided by the agencies we have listed in the private members forums, plus by all the Executive Private Investigation Agencies (see forum menu).

5) You are more valuable working part-time for six to ten agencies at $20 to $45 per hour than working all of your hours for only one agency. IPIU does not prescreen any applicant for under $20 per hour, with the national average at $28 per hour or more, unless it is a long term assignment, such as undercover or surveillance (which nationally may earn a trainee $15 per hour.)

SUMMARY:
IPIU provides it all for newcomers!

For USA Citizens, the following may be of benefit to you in receiving free benefits (food, clothing, shelter, free medication)

As an example of the above, some drug companies will provide you with monthly free drugs through your doctor's application who will certify that your annual income is slightly less than 200% of the above chart for your family size.

In this example, if you and your spouse have a reported income less than $24,980 a year, then the drug is free.

For more specific benefits, forms, and dialog, please address your discussions in the private union member's forums below:

Union Members Click Here

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• [SIZE="4"]May Badge Orders[/SIZE] & Custom Hand-stitched Leather Wallets/Clips: SHIPPED

  
  

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• [SIZE="4"]July Badge Orders[/SIZE] & Custom Hand-stitched Leather Wallets/Clips:
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• Custom Made Badge with Custom Badge Number: 1-2 weeks shipped to Leather Manufacturer

• Custom Made Fitted Leather Wallet: 5-6 weeks

• Shipping time: 7-10 days

• Click here for specific details: Time Schedule
  

100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE!
Yes, these custom made badge wallets come with our 100% satisfaction guarantee! You must be delighted with the quality of workmanship of these professional custom badge wallets, or simply return your order within seven (7) days in the same "new condition" for a full refund of your purchased price. (After all, we typically have fifty other private investigators waiting in line to get your returned badge wallet to save the long wait time of a couple of months)

Are you Unemployed? Disabled? Having trouble paying Rent and Buying Food? Can't afford your Prescription Drugs?

Help is on the way, but not until Summer of 2008. That is when IPIU will open it's private web site to aid union members who are having trouble with:

• Unemployment
  
• Rent
  
• Utilities (Electric, Gas, Etc)
  
• Food
  
• Prescription Drugs
  
• Disabilities (of all sorts)
  

If you are already a union member, then you will have private access.

If you wish to join the union, please join only after July 1, 2008 at the following secured website:

http://www.privateinvestigators.cc/index.php?cPath=67&osCsid=5f2351a0106f8c49677134e13becb2a5

We wish all of you hope that your basic needs will be taken care of so you can enjoy better health and prosperity.

David

EMBASSY INVESTIGATIONS
National Office

• Openings Nationwide - All States
  
• Spare-time & Part Time
  
• Excellent earnings up to $1000 per day.
  
• On-the-job Training through our colleague agencies.
  

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REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum age 21 (no maximum age)
  
• Driver's License & Reliable Transportation
  
• Access to the Internet for Group Training & Investigative Orientation
  
• High school level of English & Math
  
• Must have use of a computer to access the Internet
  
• Must have either your state PI License, or we do honor the IPIU union license here: PI Union License link
  

We provide all necessary training, orientation, and assignment managers for your local area.

To apply, go the following Assignment Forum:
http://www.ipiu.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12

• The above link may require your free assigned User Name and Passcode.

  
  

• If your free passcode does not work, use the option in the Log-In box to have it reset via email.

  
  

• If all else fails and you cannot access the confidential details of this assignment, then please email susan.mason@embassy-investigations.com immediately.
  

Sincerely,

HUGH GARNER
Private Investigator
Embassy Investigations
National Office

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Additional books, DVDs, and Cd's are also being added on a regular basis!

If you haven't had a chance to visit the Ecommerce Store just click on the link below.

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SNOOP:

In 1942, as the United States was entering World War II, the Office of Strategic Services -- the precursor to today's CIA -- was scrambling to find promising spies to go behind enemy lines. One of the aptitude exams it developed was the Belongings Test, in which candidates had to draw conclusions about a man based purely on items in his bedroom: clothes, a timetable, a ticket receipt.

Sam Gosling, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, has made a career of studying how such clues illuminate personality. His premise is that our personalities seep out in everything we do and that expert snoopers can draw remarkably accurate pictures of us by examining the traces we leave behind.

Gosling's conclusions are supported by rigorous academic research, but his engaging book is aimed at a popular audience; he presents it as a field guide to the "special brand of voyeurism" he calls "snoopology." Few readers may actually rummage through their neighbors' garbage in search of what Gosling dryly calls "behavioral residue," but Snoop's conceit makes for an entertaining tour of how people project their inner selves outward into the world.

Some clues come from explicit, deliberate identity claims, like the Malcolm X poster on your wall or the crucifix over your bed. Others, like the songs you download or the coffee cup you throw away, are what psychologists call "seepage," messages that leak out beneath your notice.

The trick to decoding a person's space is knowing what to look for. Offices with plants, knick-knacks and symbols of friends, family and pets tend to belong to women; men display more sports items and symbols of their achievements. Rock fans are less friendly, more artistic and more anxious than fans of religious music. Extroverts offer comfortable chairs and bowls of candy as "bait" to lure people into their offices, while difficult people wind up on the remote fringes of the workplace.

This may seem like just common sense, but it's not. We think people with messy, disorganized bedrooms will be unpleasant, but we're wrong. We incorrectly assume people whose rooms are highly decorated and cluttered are more extroverted. We make similar errors in judging people directly: We expect timid, grumpy-looking people with weak voices and halting speech to be anxious and easily upset, and we expect self-assured, smiling, stylish people to be open, imaginative and curious. But neither expectation is accurate.

On a date or job interview, you may succeed in presenting a misleading impression of yourself. But since the gradual accumulation of clues in your living space is hard to fake, snooping can yield a penetrating portrait. And that, says Gosling, is perfectly okay, because though we try to put our best selves forward, most of us, in the end, want to be known not for who we wish we could be, but for who we are.

Of course, one of the main ways we carve out our identity is by consuming. We surround ourselves with things that reinforce our conception of who we are, purchasing not just the objects we need but also symbols that help us articulate our personal narratives. That's why Ramones T-shirts outsell Ramones albums 10 to one and why, Rob Walker asserts, 75 percent of Viking's ultra-high-end kitchen ranges are never used.

In Buying In, Walker, who writes a consumer behavior column for the New York Times Magazine, makes a startling claim: Far from being immune to advertising, as many people think, American consumers are increasingly active participants in the marketing process. True, we've grown skeptical of traditional advertising, the clumsy, crass kind in which someone on Madison Avenue thinks up a soft-drink jingle and broadcasts it into ubiquity. And it's true that TiVo and the Internet have given us more control over the advertisements we see.

But Walker leads readers through a series of lucid case studies to demonstrate that, in many cases, consumers actively participate in infusing a brand with meaning. Consider the iconic mouthless cat known as Hello Kitty, used for marketing clothes, toys and bandages by the Japanese company Sanrio. She has no personality because the company painstakingly avoids defining her character, Walker says. The key to the mega-brand's success, he suggests, is ensuring that Hello Kitty remains an ambiguous symbol, a blank slate on which buyers can inscribe whatever meaning they want, from nostalgia to camp to subversiveness.

For the same reason, the makers of Red Bull never claim anything specific about the highly caffeinated drink's special ingredient, taurine, or which powers of athleticism, mental acuity or virility it supposedly bestows. They prefer marketing campaigns that promote the brand's "personality" by sponsoring such extreme sporting events as kiteboarding to Cuba, kayaking over waterfalls and street luge.

Or consider how the Pabst Blue Ribbon brand was hijacked by young, anti-corporate types. PBR's fan base grew not from aggressive marketing, Walker says, but from the lack of it. Long neglected, PBR had virtually no image at all, which helped make it an underground darling among people who attached a blue-collar, honest-workingman, anti-capitalist ethos to the brand.

Walker's analysis breaks down in places. He can't fathom why people would pay more for a Viking range or an iPod when competing products are cheaper. Most iPod buyers have never heard of such features as "Smart Playlists" and thus, he concludes, do not understand "all the functions that they paid a premium to obtain" -- as if those functions, and not the device's sleek form, are what drew 100 million purchasers. He considers the notion that people can pay for aesthetic pleasure but then dismisses it, saying it sounds more like a "rationale" than a rational choice. He's likewise baffled by why anyone would buy Method's leaky but beautiful, hourglass-shaped bottle of dish soap. Since we don't parade around town impressing others with elegant cleaning products, there's no "purely rational defense" for buying one, he says, seemingly oblivious to the possibility that we can rationally spend money on aesthetic pleasures we will enjoy alone.

But his major argument is convincing: In this new era of participatory marketing, many brands' meanings -- once crafted and maintained from atop the peaks of corporate hierarchies -- now originate from consumers. We once feared an Orwellian future in which big, scary corporations secretly manipulated our thoughts and desires. But commercial influence has become an open-source project. "We have already met the new hidden persuaders," writes Walker, "and they are us."
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