The 80 “Niches”
The possibilities for a PI to work are almost endless. The vast majority of consumers do not know what a PI can do for them, so many people are potential customers. In addition, most industries have PI’s in one form or another, and businesses are always looking for good people.
Here are 80 niches I have identified thus far:
- Abductions
- Accident Reconstruction
- Adoption searches
- Arson/Fire
- Asset Recovery
- Asset Search
- Animal investigations
- Background Checks
- Bounty Hunter
- Bug Sweep, Bug Detection
- Cell Phone Specialist
- Child Support / Custody
- Civil investigations
- Cold cases
- Computer Forensics
- Corporate / Industry
- +Oil
- +Insurance
- +Baking
- +Ships
- +Transportation
- +Hundreds of others
- Crime Scene
- Criminal Defense
- Cyber Crime
- +Deep Background Checks
- Divorce and child custody
- Domestic Disputes
- Domestic Violence
- Due diligence
- Elder abuse
- Electronic data discovery
- Executive protection
- Executive/Corporate Lawsuits
- Forensic accounting
- Financial Crimes
- Forensics – General
- Fraud
- Fugitive recovery
- Homicide
- Hotel
- Human trafficking
- Identity Theft
- Infidelity / Cheating Spouse
- Insurance Fraud
- Internet Dating Investigation
- Interview and interrogation
- Judgment Recovery
- Kidnapping
- Litigation support
- Locates
- Malpractice suits
- Medical malpractice
- Missing heirs
- Missing persons
- Mystery Shopper
- Nursing home abuse
- Personal injury
- Polygraph
- Process Service
- Public record retrieval
- Repossession
- Risk assessment
- Runaways
- Sex Trafficking
- Sexual Assault
- Skip trace
- Social Media
- Surveillance
- +Electronic Surveillance
- +Drone Surveillance
- +Photo (traditional) Surveillance
- Suspicious suicides
- Terrorism
- Threat management
- Trial Preparation
- Undercover Operations
- White-Collar Crime
- Worker’s Compensation
- Wrongful Death