Some sites you sign up with require you to be a member of notary café because then they can download all your information/credentials from there.
I read the thread shortly before the expiring of my 1 year membership then got a deal that covered the membership plus about $50 more. Used the closing money to renew just in case. I guess you can say at least it pays for itself.
When responding to SnapDo-- you can enter a fee rebuttal. if EVERYONE would put in $100++ then we would see the prices rising. They would have no choice.
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I couldn’t agree more! Even more, they might even try being nice to us for once.
I like the article in NNA mag this month about civility.
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The ones you mentioned offer very low fees, and I can’t justify working for free.
I used to do work for quite a few SD listed companies that I used to work directly for, but they’re fees have all gone down to insulting fees, and will NOT negotiate. I’m also not part of Vendor Pay any longer and choose not to provide this info as with the recent outbreaks of identify theft, I don’t trust that site. Now, if SD implements their clients to pay its nsa’s via PayPal, I probably would sign up again, as I trust PayPal as I’ve been a business vendor for 10 years.
I have received several good paying clients from this site. In fact, much better paying than SnapDocs who tend to lowball.
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Just renewed and upgraded to Pro.
I have only received 2 orders, one last week which was a good paying order and the other a few months ago.
So, I’m here to stay for some time. Everyone have a great day!
Update: Just received another order today.
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My experience as well.
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As notaries, I’m afraid lying isn’t acceptable, and I understand your frustrations, but as long as you have your credentials, and are honest, the work will come. We all had to go the ropes before being able to show numerous closings done on some of these applications. To be honest, I really don’t think most of these companies even look at that information. What they’re looking for is professionalism at it’s best, aka you’re a signing agent with updated credentials, and the availability to do the job at a reasonable price. Beyond that, it’s unfortunate, but this is how most of these companies run their businesses. Title companies are a different story, but they are not unattainable because you don’t have enough history. They are willing to give you a shot just as long as they don’t get burned by you. In that, I mean not showing up for a job you accepted through them, or not sending the package back in a timely manner, or when you made a mistake, you weren’t willing to go the extra mile to make it right. We all make mistakes from time to time, but to leave a mistake in these company’s laps, and just walking away from them with no remorse, is unacceptable, and will black list you from their Notary list in a flash. And if you aren’t available when they’re trying to reach you, they don’t take kindly to that. Common sense, and a professional attitude will get you everywhere in this business. After all, we are notaries first, therefore, integrity is expected in its highest form.
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I’d stay away from Notary Rotary. It is an extremely TOXIC environment, where there are about 5 members who seem to consistently respond, as in they have no work.
The Signing Central company list is absolutely TAINTED with false reviews, you have to go through each and every company, read their reviews and play a guessing game as to which reviews are legit and which ones are not. This is because of self-righteous members who post a review, but have never worked for the company. Its absolutely too much work to be deciphering which reviews are legit or not.
Your best bet is getting a website, if you don’t have one, and using GOOGLE to help you get your name and business out there.
Also, marketing is the key to running any business, and should be considered a full-time job, always!
Good luck to you.
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Agreed. But now, since they raised their prices, most of the smaller SS have dropped out.
Some TC’s I’ve noticed are using their own platforms now.
The future of SD will be interesting as I believe they’ve lost alot of clients due to their own selfish greed.
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Now that it has been a few years later from your original post, do you still hold the same position?
I don’t know how much Snapdocs has raised their prices, but whatever it is, it will surely be deducted from fees offered to notaries.
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It turns out these last few months that I have been getting calls from people finding me at Notary Café- today is one example. Looked the company up, good reviews, we’re good to go!
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You don’t, they find you. SnapDocs doesn’t offer this to its registered NSAs and they should, and allow us to rate them as well.
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check your profile might be missing something.
In regards to Snapdocs, I have never been happier with them. I negotiate just like I would if these companies called me, and I’m getting far more jobs because they text me with multiple job offers every day. I love that they just don’t take no for an answer. They have multiple reasons you can check, and then they have a box that will open up, to enter, if you’ve selected, the fee is too low, how much you want to accept this closing, and btw they also have all the info you need to determine how much to charge in the opening description of each job too. If you selected, cant do that time, the box opens and you either put the time you are available, or type no availability. In all cases, if they don’t have someone that’s accepted the job within a very short period of time since they posted, they will send you another text telling you, you’ve been assigned the job, and when you go to the website to accept, there is the negotiated fee you requested. I love having these companies text me for these jobs, such as Snapdocs. It also eliminates attitudes, and the customary, “I’ll have to see if I can get that fee approved.”, which goes right through me, because I know full well, in most cases it only means we’ll call you back if we can’t find anyone else to do the job for cheaper.
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I’ve received a sprinkle of signings through Notary Cafe over the years. What does happen is that customers have found out about me somewhere else, and also check Notary Cafe to see if I’m a member.
Can anyone tell me, what could someone doing this full time earn?
I too am fairly new and am signed up w snapdocs, not much business lately, I’m in Georgia, where are you? They are sending me debt resolution presentations! Have you done one? I turn them down, I read that notaries should not be doing presentations?