WEBVTT 00:00.600 --> 00:03.090 In this video, we're going to take a look at business searches. 00:03.540 --> 00:09.180 So if your target happens to be a business, these are going to be some tools and techniques that you 00:09.180 --> 00:11.490 can employ to help you with your own search. 00:12.810 --> 00:19.770 So first off, if you're doing a lesson on a business, you'll want to take a look at their website. 00:19.800 --> 00:21.720 Company website, if they have one. 00:22.740 --> 00:27.810 Things you want to look for on their website are going to be the U, r, l, and you'll want to take 00:27.810 --> 00:29.970 a look at if there's a company directory. 00:30.240 --> 00:31.650 So take a look at names. 00:32.490 --> 00:33.390 Employee names. 00:33.390 --> 00:34.410 Positions. 00:34.530 --> 00:36.030 Do they have a news section? 00:36.060 --> 00:37.410 Do you have a photo gallery? 00:38.160 --> 00:39.210 Do they have a forum? 00:39.570 --> 00:40.740 Telephone numbers? 00:41.640 --> 00:42.630 Calendars. 00:43.830 --> 00:48.150 If they do have photos posted, you want to take a look at what you could find in those photos? 00:48.570 --> 00:49.860 Does it show the server room? 00:49.860 --> 00:51.540 Does it show the layout they're building? 00:52.620 --> 00:56.280 Does it have to show things like operating systems? 00:56.280 --> 01:02.220 Or if you get lucky, maybe it will have a photo, you know, a sticky note on the monitor that has 01:02.220 --> 01:03.390 a password on there. 01:04.320 --> 01:11.040 Does the photo contain metadata in there, things like geolocation and other information that that might 01:11.040 --> 01:12.090 be relevant? 01:13.790 --> 01:15.710 Do they have a Twitter or Facebook page? 01:16.100 --> 01:18.290 If they do, you want to check those out also. 01:20.030 --> 01:24.200 So things like that you want to take a look at for company websites. 01:25.010 --> 01:30.260 Another thing you could do is each state should have some sort of business search page. 01:30.860 --> 01:38.570 So this page up here I have is for California and that can be found at Business Search, dot S.O.S., 01:38.570 --> 01:42.770 dot CAA, Dot Jovi, forge slash CBS. 01:44.270 --> 01:47.810 So on this site, it's publicly available information. 01:49.340 --> 01:55.700 So you could search by corporation name, LP, LLC and any number in your search criteria. 01:56.540 --> 02:02.150 So a while back, I was actually doing an ocean search on a company that I felt was a little, little 02:02.150 --> 02:02.930 questionable. 02:03.080 --> 02:06.710 And so I was able to use this site and. 02:07.800 --> 02:12.090 And this is basically what would all pull up so they can zoom in a little bit on here. 02:16.340 --> 02:16.850 Here we go. 02:17.540 --> 02:19.880 So I redacted some of the information on here. 02:20.570 --> 02:28.220 So things that you could find on here is the date that they filed the corporation name street address. 02:29.630 --> 02:36.500 Now, down here is actually information that actually came in really handy for me in determining. 02:38.490 --> 02:40.230 How this company was being operated. 02:40.620 --> 02:47.130 So down in here, you could enlist the WHO registered as a chief executive officer, the secretary, 02:47.130 --> 02:52.650 chief financial officer and other directors of the company. 02:53.940 --> 03:01.140 So my particular case, I did find some names on there that actually came up as a conflict of interest. 03:01.150 --> 03:06.060 So again, doing a business search came in extraordinarily handy. 03:06.060 --> 03:09.000 And this is again, this is all publicly available information. 03:11.090 --> 03:14.900 Other places you can go to find more information out about companies is. 03:14.940 --> 03:24.770 Biz Pedia founded by a PDP Viacom engineering the company name the city name and the student province 03:25.430 --> 03:27.170 to get more information. 03:28.640 --> 03:33.740 And another great place that has a lot of public information, a lot of companies registered with the 03:33.740 --> 03:34.940 Better Business Bureau. 03:36.740 --> 03:43.850 So you could actually use this to find more information about that company complaints, reviews, things 03:43.850 --> 03:50.600 like that, potentially find more information and build a bigger picture about that particular company. 03:52.100 --> 03:55.440 So again, this was about business searches. 03:55.460 --> 03:55.910 Thank you.