Hi! Newbie here, pleasure virtually meeting all of you! I signed up for the pro for almost a month and I have not yet received any notifications of an available assignment on Notary Cafe. Any advice on how to get offerings here, thank you!
@ruthlacuzong Welcome!
Please know that the Notary Cafe platform is a DIRECTORY wherein you can list the professional services you provide to your clients.
As a business owner, it’s important to market, Market, & MARKET some more! This cannot be OVEREMPHASIZED.
In addition, as you may have noted across multiple threads on the Notary Cafe Forum asking the same question. Over the past nearly 2 years finding & receiving Signing Orders [SOs] has been quite CHALLENGING for everyone!
What training program have you completed? They should be able to provide you with ample information in this regard.
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You’ll also want to Search the immediately available Notary Cafe database to find helpful information as well.
This information is a GOLDMINE!
Most members express that they find it difficult/NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE to locate the Search Function in order to access the wealth of information available within the database.
To be helpful, I’ve inserted an image for you & others [see below] to help members locate it to unlock the wisdom & knowledge of other members on the forums.
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The best insight to offer is to keep your Day Job (presuming you have one) with vacations, holidays, sick time, insurance, etc.
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Accessing the database to locate information about potential clients has saved many of us an inordinate amount of time ‘chasing’ payments for Services professionally provided to potential non-payers . . .
@ruthlacuzong The following direct url survey links will provide you with some insightful data regarding how much is actually made within this business sector:
2023 (29 pages):
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.nationalnotary.org/file%20library/nna/download/nna-2023-notary-survey-results.pdf
2021:
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.nationalnotary.org/file%20library/nna/knowledge%20center/outside%20pdfs/bulletin-data-graphics-06-07-21.pdf
As well as a Notary Cafe thread on the topic:
Hi Ruth, welcome to Notary Cafe. You won’t receive signing notifications from Notary Cafe like you do from platforms like SigningOrder. Notary Cafe is a platform on which notaries and signing agents list themselves. Some use the free listing; others pay for their listing so that they can be bumped up in ranking when someone does a search. Hiring companies use the “find a notary” link to see which of us service the area they are seeking. Unless someone specifically says to you “I FOUND YOU ON NOTARY CAFE” you just won’t know whether or not it was a Notary Cafe referral.
What you can do when someone contacts you out of the blue for an assignment is ASK how they found you.
I hope you take some time to look through the different categories and see what pertains to you. Notary Cafe Forums You can also use the search function to look for answers to a specific question you have. Chances are, someone has already asked. But if not, you can post a question in here and a variety of people are going to respond.
Weigh all advice in this forum carefully because rules are different state to state. You are in Nevada, I’d say pay closer attention to the notaries responding from the same state as you. And first and foremost, make sure to follow the rules for your state no matter what anyone tells you in here: https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/licensing/notary
Cheers!