Representing Australian Independent Psychics and Content Providers

Your Name

Your Email

Message

About Online Psychic Alliance

Online Psychic Alliance has been formed to represent independent phone psychics and independent 1900 psychic content providers in the Australian communications industry.

Our aim is to lobby the Australian government for representation on the councils and forums that are directly connected to the employment of independent content providers and psychics in the premium 1900 psychic line industry concerning issues covered in the Australian Telecommunications Act.

We know that live telephone psychic operators have experienced many issues concerning employment, hours of work, pay rates etc. when signing contractual agreements with live psychic line organizations.

The same is also known about 1900 premium content providers. Issues to do with genuine representation of the business needs of independent psychics by 1900 service providers and carriers can sometimes seem difficult to negotiate when you don't know your rights or have real representation in the industry forums etc.

This is why independent psychics need to collectively lobby for greater control of our own work conditions and business environments.

If you are an independent psychic or independent psychic content provider working in the psychic line industry and have experienced any of the following conditions, we want to know:

 

---

Independent Online Psychics – Chat Lines, Clairvoyants, Psychic Services

Have you experienced any of these things?

• Psychic Line Contractual agreements that do not allow you to work for other psychic organizations. Comment: As a sub-contractor you are under no obligation to work for only one company



• Pay decreases or hourly rate decreases often without prior notification and not complying with your original contractual agreement



• Bullying or poor management practices regarding your work on the live psychic lines



• Unreasonable requests to purchase information technology, or online psychic reading infrastructure



• Unreasonable requests by 1900 Psychic Service Providers or Content Providers that require you to engage your client to stay online and maximise business profits.
  Comment: Unnecessarily engaging clients can lead to bad debt being passed on by Telstra to Service and Content providers. This in turn may lead to reduced per-minute call rates being passed on to Independent Sub-Contracting Psychics.



• Being guided what to say in your readings and how to conduct them, particularly after Service Providers/Content Providers have listened into client conversations.
  Comment: This may be in breach of the Australian Privacy Act unless clients have been officially notified that calls are being recorded and have agreed to these conditions



• Unreasonable requests to respond to Content or Service Providers with administration queries out of your normal working hours and that intrude on the quiet enjoyment of your home life
  
  
• Any other concerns you might have about your work conditions which are relevant to your place of work

 

---

Independent 1900 Premium Content Providers


Have you experienced any of these things?

• Changes to your psychic line contractual agreements without prior notification that may hinder the efficient operation of your business



• Premium service providers failing to convey 1900 Psychic Line regulations and codes that you must meet when starting a 1900 Psychic Reading business.



• Premium Service Providers not representing your business in a way that provides fair, equitable business trading under Australian Law



• Premium Service Providers failing to use best business practices with the Privacy Act and sharing your business information with colleagues, business partners or business competitors.



• Service Providers not allowing you to access your client phone numbers and statistics, referring to the Australian Privacy Act as a way of withholding important and relevant business data. Comment: The Australian Privacy Act covers Content Providers and Service Providers equally, and should not be a reason for Service Providers to withhold information from Independent Content Providers.



• Premium Service Providers failing to adequately provide genuine communication about your business issues and not responding to your business requests in writing etc.



• Premium Service Providers failing to pass on information regarding breach of TISSC codes or any changes or alterations to TISSC codes.



• Premium Service Providers refusing to represent your business issues as required under the licensing requirements of the ACMA



• Experiencing any type of unsatisfactory or unsavory business practices from Service Providers or Carriers that may include bullying or threatening behavior etc. making it difficult for your business to operate efficiently.



• Anti competitive industry behavior or any direct conflict of interest concerns you have in relation to a Premium Service Provider representing your best business interests. This includes 1900 Premium Service Providers who also own 1900 Content Psychic businesses.

---

Australian Online Psychic Alliance Psychic Business Survey
March - June 2012

Which Australian Psychic Businesses Are Using Black Hat SEO to Falsely Stay On Top of the Major Search Engines?

Do you know of any Australian or International Psychic Businesses that are engaging in Black Hat Seo tactics or Abusing Google Map Violations to remain on top of the search engines?

The Online Psychic Alliance is currently conducting a business survey to identify the Australian buisnesses that are employing Black Hat Seo and violating Google Map business practices by doing any of the following:

Falsely creating Google Places business listings that fail to meet the Google Map Business Model

Creating a Google Map listing that does not have the correct business location address

Using keywords in the Google Map psychic business listing which are not related to the original business name for example: Melbourne Psychic, Sydney Psychic, Queensland Psychic, Western Australian Psychic etc. which are not identifying the real psychics business name and therefore attempting to influence search results.

Placing multiple locations in the Same State or creating a different domain name to place multiple business listings in the Same State

The Psychic business is failing to provide the correct address details and using P.O. box address details, virtual office locations, or major motel chain like the Hyatt of Melbourne, The Rocks in Sydney, The Pancake Manor in Brisbane to be identified as a city business location and therefore illegally engaging in false information verification on Google Maps. Also report if a psychic in any State of Australia is only using a major city street locations or well known sight seeing sights like Flinders Street Station in Melbourne CBD, George Street in Sydney CBD etc.

Is the Australian Psychic Business engaging in Black Hat SEO by doing any of the following:

The clairvoyant business is misleading its customers by using other psychic businesses original content by scraping Australian and International copyright protected material and rewriting the original businesses content to falisify business reputation and misleading their Australian customers

The Australian Phone Line Business is regularly engaging in Black Hat SEO practices where they try to devalue a competitor psychic businesses site by creating spam psychic web pages and using your links to their spam sites. We are aware these practices are growing and we would like to know which psychic businesses are engaging in these practices and whether they are holding the number one spot on the major search engines?

The Psychic Business is connected to any network link arrangements where they are either buying links, clicking each other sites, or selling psychic or spiritual products to customers and therefore wanting to reach the number one page rank on major search engines such as Google, Yahoo or Bing.

Please forward your survey information by clicking on the contact page on this site and notifying our members of any untoward psychic business practices that you know of.
Members please find further reading material for your perusual:

---

Google Maps: Claim Your Business Details:

http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/business

Wikipedia helpful reference on what constitutes White Hat SEO vs Black Hat SEO - what you need to know your competitor sites are doing to devalue your search results...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#White_hat_versus_black_hat