Pifeed StaffIn our 8 Hours with series, we speak with leading private investigators and security professionals to learn more about what they do on a days’ worth of work. We reach out to them at hourly intervals to see how they spent the day and document their activities.
On this article, we look into the day of Adam Visnic – founder of Gravitas Investigations a licensed Private Investigator in Cincinnati, OH. He partners and integrates with business leaders, risk managers, claims analysts, and attorneys to tackle their investigative needs and challenges. He helps his clients capitalize on hidden opportunities. Once he integrates his team with his client’s departments, he’s able to equip them with the information necessary to make the right decisions and stay competitive.
With that introduction, let’s start up his 8 hour day: It’s actually more like 10 hours
6:00 AM
Up and at em.
I’ve got to be up before the rest of my family wakes up so I can get 30 minutes to an hour of work in before breakfast has to be made and the kids have to get dressed and get out the door.
I’ve worked from home or remotely for the past nine years, so I can just plop in front of a laptop and it’s off to the races.
Overnight, I’ll have received email updates from my team in TrackOps. So, I’ll review, edit, and send updates (with video footage) out to clients so that they can read them first thing. It’s crucial to communication, and for up-to-date intelligence, that they know what’s going on. I never wanna be behind the eight-ball.
More emails and checking feeds till I hear the pitter-patter of little feet. I have two sons, 4 and 3, and another one on the way.
7:00 AM
Breakfast of Champions
Coffee, eggs/egg whites, and toast. My boys love peanut butter on graham crackers right now – that’s easy enough. I’ve been eating the same breakfast for that last decade. Steve Jobs wore black turtle necks every day to keep his decision-making power intact, I eat the same breakfast.
8:00 AM
Dad Van
I’m my kids’ personal chauffeur, so it’s off to either preschool or daycare.
8:30 AM
Back to work.
Sending out finalized reports and video footage, invoices, and updating financial spreadsheets.
I don’t personally do surveillance anymore. I haven’t for almost two years. I’ve contracted that out to a select group of PIs. Instead, I conducting preliminary investigations or Open Source Intelligence investigations.
Additionally, throughout the day and sometimes evenings, I’ll be receiving texts from investigators in the field who have questions on what to do on surveillance. Communication is key.
11:00 AM
Sales and Marketing
I’m in my Customer Relationship Management system (Cloze CRM) emailing or calling clients and prospective clients.
I’m also connecting with potential leads on LinkedIn and writing personalized messages.
12:00 PM
Lunch Time
Lunch with my wife, who now works from a home office due to COVID restrictions. This means for the past year I’ve been able to work in the same house with her. It’s legitimately been the best thing for us. I wouldn’t be anywhere close to having a successful business without her. Plus, she works in our cozy finished basement – she’s really living it up down there.
1:00 PM
Content Creation
This is where I’ll create my YouTube videos. Since, I’m going full-bore on YouTube as a way to show expertise, create a community, establish thought leadership, and market my business, I’ll be developing video scripts, filming footage, editing footage, and posting to multiple social media platforms across the whole week.
Then, I’ll funnel that into my email newsletter for a couple of hundred clients and fellow PIs to read and watch.
// We encourage to subscribe to his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamVisnic
2:30 PM
Gotta pay the bills.
I’m a contract national security background investigator on the side, so when I need funds to “keep the lights on” and the cash flowing in, I’ll have a contract liaison assign me cases from one of seven different federal government agencies. If you’ve ever had a security clearance, you know the drill – subject interviews, record checks, transcript pulls, employment verifications, and reference interviews. Submit reports. Cash checks.
4:00 PM
Clear your head phase
I don’t know if a business owner ever “clears their head”, (I’m always thinking about the biz) but if I don’t get to get a sweat going at some time in the day, I’m a disturbed man. I’m lucky to have a small gym in my basement with dumbbells, barbells, a pull-up bar, and a heavy bag. That, or it’s a 2-mile run through the neighborhood.
5:00 PM
Clock out.
