Sure I’d appreciate that
I check SignOrder (NotaryResume) constantly have clicked yes for 35 jobs and have not gotten a single one.
Maybe signup for Proof.com and perform RON’s on their platform; use this as experience. Every RON you complete should be posted on the Snapdocs website as they post the number of signings on their platform dashboard.
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I messaged you my email address
Take this for what it’s worth since I’m relatively new (got my initial credentials in June but then was out of town for most of the month), made lots of mistakes in July, started to pick up steam in September, and now I’m comfortable doing 8-12 full packages/week (in addition to my work as a professor and writer). You’ve already gotten some great advice from those way more seasoned than I, but I will say… the “know your worth advice” is gold. In the first 2-3 months, I took quite a few low-ball offers and never really countered. Now, I almost always counter. Today, I was offered a job for $60 and assumed it must be a hybrid (why would they offer $60 otherwise). I countered with $145 because of distance and they immediately assigned the job to me. When I opened the doc pack, I realized why they were so quick to jump. Friday night signing, 189 pages, wife as signer and as Attorney in Fact for husband with a lot of inconsistencies in the docs… This job was easily worth $165 and I kicked myself for not asking for more! I’m not beating myself up over it. I still consider this a worthwhile job (It got me to my $1000 weekly goal), but I could have charged more. Had I taken it for a penny less, I would have been extremely resentful. And that’s what I’m looking to avoid more than anything. I actually enjoy this job. I like meeting new people. And I especially like knowing that I am providing real service as a mobile notary (for many people who would find it a struggle to get to a bank to sign). So my goal is to keep enjoying it and to keep seeing the value in it. The more low-ball offers you take, the more taken-advantage of you will feel. And that gets old fast!
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You learn something new on every one…don’t kick yourself. But my $.02 FWIW…that is easily a $200 fee..or more.. just for reference going forward.
Linda, I completely agree! But what do you do when you’ve already countered with one fee and then find out the job entails more than was obvious at first. Often times, I base my counter on [original offer] + [standard markup of about 20%] + [$35/hr of travel]. Of course I have to do the mental math quickly since jobs often go to the first bidder. But the 20% markup rule only works when the initial offer is a fair representation of the job being offered. The fact that this company even offered $60 for a job like this is disgusting (in my humble opinion). Even if I was signing for my neighbor, this wouldn’t be a fair price for the job! So I made the assumption that it was a hybrid/small package. Do you have a way of determining whether or not something will be a small/large package? For example, do you have a running list of which title companies tend to send out really large packages and counter high with them every time? Thanks for any tips!
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Keeping in mind I don’t do signings any longer, but when I did
As to “find out the job entails more than was obvious” - contact and ask for more fees based on increased extent of job.
About a way to determine size of packages, during my tenure we notaries knew who had normal/regular packages and who had us signing every page of War & Peace. You just knew…but only by experience with them.
Thanks for this. I’ve signed up for most all. I seem to get almost all of my closings from either NotaryResume (signingorder) or The Cloising exchange.
Out of curiosity does it help increase the likelyhood of getting assigned if I visit each site regularly?
I have not gotten a single offer from SnapDocs not 1.
Ok don’t think visiting the site does anything. You have signed up for text notifications on all of them? Check your Snapdocs profile maybe you didn’t set up notifications correctly. I don’t know.
Hmmm . . .
Do they come to you? Not sure how you make any money going anywhere, but if you travel you are feeding their P&L, not yours! Get some help figuring your costs and what you maybe should be charging!
FWIW? Can you spell that out for this beginner? please
@cheryl_1_angel Hi and sorry…FWIW = For What It’s Worth