Once again, we see lots of folks coming here after going through all the time, effort and expense of getting their notary commission and maybe taking a class about loan signing, then coming here and asking about how to get business.
IMO, that's a backward approach to starting a business - which is what you are doing when you enter the loan signing field. Any business expert will tell you to start out with a business plan. I know most won't do that, but at the very least, you should first investigate the market and potential in your area, as well as the industry as a whole. That includes at least a basic understanding of what it will take to find business and to market your services. There's much more to that than what is today's equivalent of 'putting out a shingle'. You should also have an understanding of the long term potential.
Without doing that first, how do you know whether or not it's even worth it to become a notary public? Maybe you'd be much better off looking for something else to do. If you don't have any idea what the potential is in your area, how much competition there is, or how to find clients - and you aren't willing to do the leg work it takes to market yourself - you have little chance to make any money at this.
I don't have time to get into explaining all that now, except to say that a good plan doesn't involve coming here to ask someone else (who might consider you their competition) to 'mentor' or train you on how to do a loan signing, let alone on how to find clients.
Using the search feature of this forum to access a couple of decades of posts is a great resource for ideas on how to find those answers, and may even have some of the answers themselves. Posting a question and then expecting someone else to invest their time to serve up all those answers for you is NOT a good approach and may just get you blasted. Nearly everything you can think to ask has likely already been addressed here numerous times. So do your homework first!
[BTW, lesson #1 (for free): You don't 'get a notary'. A notary is a person. What we get is a 'notary commission'. And we don't 'do notaries'. We 'do notarizations', or notarize signatures.  ]
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