The secret is being willing to travel, perhaps further than your comfort zone. Many companies that don't like to bonus jobs will, when they get desperate. I got $75 each for two shops last week that normally pay $10 each. They were 100 miles from home, but the two shops were just blocks apart. Each one took 45 minutes on-site,
an hour prep, and an hour for the report. I also picked up a fast food shop for $80, which normally pays $5. The ff shop was in the same parking lot as one of the $75 shops -- and I had to eat, anyway! Tomorrow I'm doing a new car shop for $75, a fast food for $25, and a post office shop for $30. It's 270 miles round trip, so I need to pick up a couple more jobs to really make it worth while. The new car shop and the post office shop will pay me in two weeks; that will give me funds on hand for my shops the last week of the month.
I love Best Mark. They give you a "example report" which shows EXACTLY how they want their narrative structured. I love that! I wish EVERY MSC would do that. Makes it so easy, especially on these narrative intense shops. And they process pay every two weeks. Trendsource ("The Source"...) pays twice a month, too, as does Maritz. So does IPSOS. Having that money in hand so soon is worth a lot to me; I'd rather do six $25
shops that are paying me in two weeks or so than one $150 shop that's gonna take 6 weeks to be paid. (Known as "opportunity cost of money" -- I can take that $l50 by the 20th of this month, and use it to shop my long route the last week of the month.)
The InStore Group also pays twice a month. It's simple merchandising jobs, most pay $12 flat rate. But the "report" consists of 5 or 6 yes/no questions, and a couple of photos. EXCELLENT "filler" jobs that you can do on the way to other shops. Customer Impact also has lots and lots of jobs, and likes us to take routes that
need redoing regularly. They have their own app, so you do the report while you're on-site. They don't pay much per job, but the jobs really do only take a few minutes each. $9 for a job that you can complete in less than 15 minutes still meets my hourly requirement. Their communication has been responsive and timely. I love working with companies that respond to e-mails!!!
I did one twenty hour day last month -- 17 hours of driving, 3 hours shopping and reporting. $500+ reimbursements for the day. I got up at 5 AM, drove 300 miles, did my first shop at noon, my final shop
at 7:15 PM, drove 400 miles home and got home at 2:30 the next morning. And I'm 70 years old and disabled!
Feel free to PM me.
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