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speezack
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Post subject: Re: Advice on choosing office location  Posted: Mon 23 May 2011 08:15 |
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Joined: Fri 02 Mar 2007 10:51
Posts: 5055
Location: South Central Virginia
FRN Agency ID #: 1474
Experience: More than 10 years
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My take... if it works for you, keep using it... that's what makes the world go round...
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Bill Marx, Sr.
"FREE STATE BAIL BONDS"
"FREE STATE INVESTIGATIONS"
DCJS: 99-176979
Cell: 434-294-0222
"Endeavor to Persevere" "Lone Watie"
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that , comes from bad judgment" "Will Rogers"
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tsuggs
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Post subject: Re: Advice on choosing office location Posted: Mon 23 May 2011 10:24 |
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Joined: Thu 09 Mar 2006 14:51
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FRN Agency ID #: 3904
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We get lots of foot traffic every day. So it does work for us.
Also, we are starting to remodel the entire office one room at a time. So I am here practically every day all day and night. Since we have plenty of room, we are creating a "apartment" in the back.
Then we don't have to worry about driving home late at night, if we don't want to or have to drive in when we get those 2:00AM calls.
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speezack
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Post subject: Re: Advice on choosing office location Posted: Mon 23 May 2011 12:34 |
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Joined: Fri 02 Mar 2007 10:51
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Location: South Central Virginia
FRN Agency ID #: 1474
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Only suggestion I can add relates to the AO you work.
Living and operating in a rural community is unique in several ways.
My company services the entire state of Virginia but more closely south-side Virginia. Normally we service approximately 10 or more different facilities and they range in distance from 8 to 70 miles from my home town. What makes it even more difficult is when you are at the furthermost jail and you get a call from the one on the other end of the line... and to tell you the truth, we try to work all that call and of course are "workable".
Frankly, there is no convenient way to provide a physical office for all these locations so we simply place phone ads in every phone book in each locality and also do ads in each town that houses the jails. We have regional jails and local jails and even very small lockups that will sometimes hold the defendants until we can get to the stations where we bond them out before they are even 'housed'... booked by the magistrate but not placed in a cell... we bond them straight from the magistrates office... thereby saving transport by at least one or two deputies, saving the county the transport costs and us the time of driving to the regional jail.... everybody profits.
I might mention that there have been bonding companies that have tried to place offices in several of the towns but there just isn't that much business to support it.... IMHO of course. Those offices usually don't stay open more than a few months.... and some are rather extravagant operations... fancy and expensive but not particularly productive...
I ain't pretty and I ain't fancy... but if they call me at 3am... I am going... and the end result is the same... we all want to be visible and recognized as professionals... I think you just have to reach what is referred to as... a "happy medium".
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Bill Marx, Sr.
"FREE STATE BAIL BONDS"
"FREE STATE INVESTIGATIONS"
DCJS: 99-176979
Cell: 434-294-0222
"Endeavor to Persevere" "Lone Watie"
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that , comes from bad judgment" "Will Rogers"
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