Okay, first off, you need to be signed up with 75 to 100 MSCs to have a chance at starting to learn to build routes. Forget fast food; on a route, you are better off packing snacks or a lunch so that you do not have to worry about restrictions on lunch hours as well as a report!
Search for posts about banks using the forum search function and set it to the last years. $12 bank shops lead to $18 and $22 ones which lead to $40 and $50 ones. (I did $475 in lending inquiries without leaving home last month!)
Sign up with every MSC that does banks! In a city you can often walk from on bank shop to 2 others. Ignore most retail shops because most have low pay. Search for MSCs with parking shops; anchor a mini-route by taking even low pay parking shops and then walk to banks, phone stores, and other shop venues.
I started doing mini-routes 15 miles from home by doing one parking shop and walking 2 blocks to a bank shop. Along the way I made notes about other parking locations, banks, cell phone stores, etc.
Sign up with MSCs that do oil changes; a few dollars pay but reimbursement for an oil change every 3 months. I have not paid for an oil change since September 2005!
Look for MSCs that reimburse dry cleaning, in-home rug cleaning, tire rotations, hair care. Those are all keeping money in your own pocket! Oh, yes, and spa shops, and manicure shops, and pizza carryout or delivery and any food carryout with a nice reimbursement and a choice of items, and movie theaters, and church services, sporting events, concerts, gas stations (reimbursed fuel!), vision exam shops(you get a new prescription i the deal with most and do not have to buy the glasses there).
Any day that you want to do two shops but cannot find ones that align nicely in terms of travel time....spend the day signing up with 5-10 more MSCs.
AND, remember that going from one shop to two when you leave the house is progress that will help you to gain the skills to make that three, and then 4 shops. So, in the beginning, even a couple of relatively low pay shops that give you more experience with a new type of shop are REAL progress.
Remember, we all started how you did. We learned by expanding from baby steps, to walking to running. You can too.
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
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