Posted by notary plus more on 1/13/05 6:57pm
Msg #16645

Where can a new notary business find information

I am a new notary just starting out. Can you give me advice as to what to expect from various agencies? How do I bill? I am totally lost on this and really need all the help and assistance I can get. Where would I go to learn about establishing a proper business. Anyone with any advice would really be appreciated.

Reply by BrendaTX on 1/13/05 7:59pm
Msg #16649

*Anyone with any advice would really be appreciated.*

From One of my Blogs

Step 1 -
Search Google One day I was looking for information that led me to a mortgage site wherein signing agents were mentioned and it got my eye because my background works with this kind of a job. Next, I found out what forums were online. I read them. Being totally confused, BUT much enlightened as to possibility, I figured out where to find information
about becoming an NSA without needing input from others.

What this means is I fired up the Google Search engine and did a search on every possible combination of three or four words that would get me to sites with information on it.

While reading through the forums I made notes of questions that came to mind.

Step 2 - Locate Forums - Read Forums
I then went back and read and/or searched the forum archives to see if the questions are already asked and
answered.

Step 3 Identify Yourself / Your State
Brand Yourself when you start to post. Anonymous posters are often ignored. I registered on forums and employed a handle which identified me as a notary in Texas, thus my handle BrendaTx.

Step 4
Start posting questions. I posted questions that reflected that I had not just arrived without some previous study on the same.

Step 5
Be Like Teflon / Say thanks, no matter what. No matter what answers I got, I said "Thanks for your input." Don't get angry.

Step 6
Help with what you know & disclaim your answers are based on opinion and your own personal knowledge. Once you get a little experience in signing, start helping with what you know. However, make sure you disclaim yourself as not giving legal advice.

Step 7
Keep saying thanks Say "Thanks for your input. I value your opinion." when you are told you are wrong. The response could be right. Don't keep a stiff neck and refuse to consider you could be wrong. How else will you learn?

Also, it will show you can hang tough and that you respect the opinions of others.

Step 8
Help others. Get ready because soon you will be contacted by new notaries for help. Help and mentor others! It will come back ten fold!

(Carolyn, here's one reason for the blogs )

Reply by Ted_MI on 1/13/05 8:08pm
Msg #16651

Brenda,

Excellent advice; very well thought out. Do save this post as I am sure that you will have an opportunity to use it in the future.

Reply by BrendaTX on 1/13/05 9:28pm
Msg #16660

*very well thought out.*

Hey, Ted. Thanks. It's thought out because it was what happened.

I was timid as a rabbit...didn't want PAW NS or sue to yell at me. (Of course, they didn't yell at anybody!) Sylvia was here a lot then, and Dennis.

Hugh started posting around the same time. I called him one Saturday evening when I had a little problem. He let me blather on until I came to a conclusion.

I feel I have made good friends here, and learned a lot.

I guess I could have been a jack a__ and they all would have been nice, but this is just what worked for me. It has not been that long since I got started...just a year.

(And, yeah, I know, Hugh, you can't shut me up now.)

Reply by HisHughness on 1/13/05 9:41pm
Msg #16663

Brenda lists eight steps for a person to become a successful signing agent. She left out the last three steps:

9) Learn what an IP number is. Develop an attachment to IP numbers that is as strong as the Republican attachment to military heroes -- you know, high-ranking officers like General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, General Mills...

10) Develop an aversion to __________ that is every bit as strong as the Republic aversion to all campaign hors d'oevres except baloney sandwiches.

11. Learn to write loooooooooooong posts about IP numbers and ___________ .

You will in short order be well on your way to becoming a successful signing agent cut in the very mold of the Queen of the Craft herself.

Reply by BrendaTX on 1/13/05 9:58pm
Msg #16665

*Brenda lists eight steps for a person to become a successful signing agent. *

Let me clarify: Successful at getting help from the forum!


*Queen of the Craft *

I am holding out for Queen of the World, thank you very much.

If you are home, I believe I will give you a ring, Hugh.

I'd like to discuss points 9 - 11 for the next 3 hours.

You in??