What Price Will You Leave Home For?
October 8th, 2007Written by: Scott
One of the most annoying things as a mobile notary is getting calls for a job that is outside your price range. The first time you get a call for a $40 job (which you turn down) its kinda funny. By the time you get 10 calls in a day for a price you won’t work for, it just gets plain annoying.
Enter….NotaryBay.com
With your profile at NotaryBay.com you can choose to receive only notifications of jobs that fit your free schedule.
The good thing about this feature is that you won’t get notified of jobs that don’t fit your fee schedule. Go here to login and update your profile. You should set your price to be the lowest you would take for a edoc signing within 30 miles (you’ll likely never receive notifications outside 30 miles from NotaryBay). We may set a low limit for this number ($75?).
This is feature is also great for the searcher. Let’s look at this example:
Sue at Big Huge Title Company has $150 allocated for the Notary Fee on the HUD. As a NotaryBay.com user, she puts in the closing zip code, and then puts her max fee at $150. When she hits the blue button to begin her automated notary search, she knows she’ll only receive a call from a notary that charges $150 or less. Good for her (she has a budget!) and good for the notaries (no notifications that don’t met their fee schedule).
Let’s say I won’t leave my office for less than $200. No problem, nothing wrong with that. In my profile, I put $200 threshold price for sending notification. Now I won’t get notifications for any searches where the user puts in a dollar amount below $200. Again, good for the searcher, good for me.
The Truth About Low Prices
The truth is that there are many notaries who will work for lower amounts than another notary would for the exact same job. You may not like it, it may not be right, but that’s the truth of the matter in the industry right now. The good thing about your NotaryBay profile is that two notaries can both rank high in the results…just at different price points. So, if you’re ok with accepting jobs at the lower end of the fee spectrum you put a lower price in your profile. If you don’t want to hear about the lower end price jobs…then put a higher price in your profile. You have full control.
Searchers will always be encouraged to input their maximum price for each job. That way they get the highest quality and most results at their price point. This feature is not intended to encourage low fees, but to return relevant results to the searcher as well as a relevant job notifications to the notaries.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
I will not accept assignments for less than 180.00 per closing.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Oregon is the place where business comes from out of state where prices are lower for some Signings. Our Notary fee here is $5. CA and many other states $10. Makes a difference.
October 13th, 2007 at 6:31 am
Interesting concept. Wondering what happens if I don’t input any minimum fee??
As I’m traveling slowly thru mountain roads, my travel fees incraese every 10 miles; not 30.
October 13th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
I put $100 since it’s easy to get around in my neck of the woods, however, I’m available 24/7 for the right amount of money which just might be fifty bucks… if I’m not doing anything and it’s near by. In this case, Fifty dollars is better than no dollars.
I used to hear notaries in 2003-2005 say things like, “I won’t leave the house for less than. $______ Yeah, well those notaries are either out of the business or they’re accepting much less than $________.
I’m hanging tough, confident that I’ll be okay and will continue to get calls since so many are getting out of the biz, leaving more work for me!
October 30th, 2007 at 9:32 am
My fees are based on where the signing is, the time and day. I am rural and some of our zip codes cover a very large rural area and a few towns, so I map it out before I agree on their fee.
I do have a base fee, but my fee is negociable. Especially since it is so slow. I make sure that my time and travel is covered if I am leaving my town. I was pretty busy last week and did make some real good money as other notaries did turn down some jobs because of the hour, day and distance. I negociated my fee and was paid well for my services.
I am also hanging tough. I do field inspection work and that is keeping me going. I am headed for the busy winter season and will do alot of loss claims again this year along with working with other companies with other type of inspections.
There will be a lot of notaries that will not make it through this down time we are having, but I will. I am willing to work nights at another job to survive just so I don’t have to give up what I have worked so hard to have.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
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