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The Deputy Coroner
Once my biohazard cleanup
business in Orange County began, my first few jobs came throught the Internet.
With hundreds of hours of Internet marketing behind me, I continued to
use the Internet as my main marketing tool. I asked every caller, "How
did you find me," and invariably they said, "The Internet."
Then one day a caller made a different claim. He said, "The coroner's
office gave me a list with 3 telephone numbers on it." I was one
of the three. As a result I called the coroner's office and asked about
this proceedure for referring grieving families since I believed, and
still believe, that it was wrong. A young woman claimed that "It's
always done this way by area code." So I decided that I could live
with it, just not happily. As a former Orange County employee I had been
directed not to ever act in a conflict of interest or anything that could
be interpreted as a conflict of interest.
Calls came from county callers
in this way for a few years, about 1 to 3 every four to six weeks. Then
in 2005 they stopped abruntly. Except, oddly enough, on certain holidays
I would receive a call. New Years Eve, Christmas, the fourth of July were
days I might receive a telephone call. In 2009 I advised the deputry coroner
of the above facts. She denied that coroner's employees "ever"
gave out a list of numbers to call. More though, even my holiday telephone
calls ceased.
As a result, I do not receive
telephone calls in Orange County for biohazard cleanup work, except in
very rare cases. Once such case came on September 28, 2008 when a caller
from Garden Grove asked for my services. He reported that a mail coroner's
employee in the coroner's department gave him a competitior's telephone
number, but my competitor wanted too much money. So he found me on the
Internet.
That's how it's been with
the coroner's department.
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