7 Tips for Building a Niche Notary Business
Today’s article is about developing a niche for general notary work and contains
Six Steps that Will Improve Your Image
If you are a new notary public or a new notary business owner, the six steps listed below can help to set up the right public image for your notary career. These steps aren't new discoveries , but they can be easily overlooked while you are trying to learn how to handle your new duties as a notary professional.
Step 1 – Brand your notary business with a professional email address.
Now that you are a notary professional, don’t hang on to your Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL address. Consider setting up an email address that projects the right image. This step entails purchasing a domain and adding email service to it. Google is one place to do this. It will cost...
The Story of a Mortgage Loan
Notaries who have not been through the personal agony of applying for a mortgage loan have missed learning opportunities. Every mortgage loan has a story! Being that involved in the process personally helps notaries understand what their borrowers have recently endured. Without that experience, a new loan signing agent may not understand some of the impatience that borrowers have. Applying for a loan isn't for the faint at heart. It can be grueling and frustrating. With that in mind, I’d like to do an overview of how a mortgage loan begins and evolves into a neat stack of loan documents on a borrower's cluttered kitchen table. Definition of a mortgage A mortgage is a legal agreement by which a lender lends money...
The Mysterious Contents of a Traveling Notary’s Bag
The bag or briefcase carried to appointments by a brand new traveling notary is usually a lightweight and slim model. It contains very little--a few pens, a notarial stamp, notary journal, and a pocket for carrying documents. However, once notaries begin traveling and having experiences with signers, they learn to be ready to accommodate a multitude of situations. Soon, the traveling notary bag is bulging at the seems, a zipper breaks, or the thing won't shut at all! It must be upgraded to a larger size. As the miles click by and notary journals fill up with signatures from appointments, a notary's bag selection leans to something bigger and more capable of organizing gear. Some notaries eventually graduate to an elaborate...
Hospital Marketing Strategies for Mobile Notaries
On April 17, I found myself driving from home to a community hospital 150 miles away. I had to be there to help my 86-year-old mother stay near the bedside of the love of her life, a gentle and kind man named Warren who, at age 84, suffered a massive heart attack. For a couple of days, I fretted about Warren's health, the impact it was having on my mother, and about not being at home and able to work or write this article, and I had not decided on a topic before I left my house. However, on the third day, while prowling around the hospital campus, I could not stop thinking about ways to market notary services effectively...
