Adding Immigration Bonds to Your Bail Agency

As with any company, a successful bail agency must look for ways to expand its services for new sources of income. There are various untapped business  offerings that may net bail agents a nice paycheck, but one of the greatest unused resources is the immigration bond. Becoming licensed to handle immigration bonds isn’t difficult, and doing so can help to ensure the financial success of your agency. What Are Immigration Bonds? An immigration bond is a federal bond that must be posted when an individual is held after arrest by the Department... Read more

4 Ways To Reduce Your Failure to Appear Rate

The author Anne Rice once said, “To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.” She was referring to writing works of literature, but she may as well have been talking about writing bail bonds. Every time you write a bond, you face the the very real risk that the person will fail to appear in court. The national average indicates that between 15 to 19 percent of people released on surety bail fail to appear, but that number varies agency by agency — often depending on the business practices used. We spoke with... Read more

Using Social Media to Build Your Bail Business

Are you promoting your business on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or LinkedIn? If your company is not represented online, you are missing opportunities to market your business, share information with other bail agents, build great connections, keep track of clients and keep your fingers on the pulse of the industry. In 2009 social media grew at exponential rates. People communicated online more than ever and those trends are expected to continue in 2010. With 350 million users, Facebook is the second most visited website on the web, MySpace just added... Read more

What You Should Know About Pretrial Release Programs

According to The New York Times, the United States and the Philippines are the only two countries in the world with a dominant commercial bail system. In the past 40 years, the commercial bail system has come under intense scrutiny, as critics claim pretrial release should not be based on a defendant’s ability to pay a bail agent. The rise in anti-commercial bail sentiment has been accompanied by a wave of bail reform law, most commonly in the form of pretrial release programs run by the courts.  Pretrial release programs have also been... Read more