Start-Over Success Business Under $500 - Notary Signing Agent

Being a Notary Public Signing Agent can be a full-time business, something that is a natural fit with other work you do (like being a real estate agent), or a side hustle. 

The work is on the phone or computer or driving to signing locations. 

One of the good things is, you can be a Remote Online Notary (RON) and work exclusively from home. 

 

No Degree is Needed to Be a Notary Signing Agent and You Can Make $50,000 to $100,000 a Year.

While the money isn’t as good as with some other professional businesses, the connections you make can lead to big things. The skills you develop are valuable in any endeavor. 

While it can take quite a bit of effort to get business, as you’ll see later, there are signing agencies and platforms that make acquiring work easy. 

EXAMPLES

How Much Does It Cost to Become a Notary Signing Agent?

Think about the work that a notary signing agent does: ensuring the legal and accurate signing of legal documents and contracts. 

The requirements make sense: classes, passport photo, fingerprints, and a surety bond are necessary. Of course,you need a notary public seal and notary public journal. 

Those requirement and materials total around $179 to $300, depending on what state you are in. 

Notary Signing Agent's fees are set by each state, but there are many ways to make money.

Each state has it’s own fee structure per signature. At first glance, it looks like there’s no money to be made as a notary signing agent. But, you can charge for mobile service to make the numbers more attractive. 

As you see in the list of services a Notary Signing Agent can offer, there are lots of ways to add income. 

I find it interesting that, in some states, a notary signing agent can even perform weddings. What fun! 

Opportunities For a Notary Signing Agent

As a notary signing agent, it’s natural for you to do work – and networking – with several interesting professions. In your circle of influence are real estate people of all kinds, title and escrow officers, home inspectors, lawyers, and paralegals.

These connections can present inspiration. Maybe as you’re doing a lot of work with real estate professionals, you decide to invest in property or add property management, or other services. 

How to Work Smarter as a Notary Signing Agent

Use apps to streamline your work with scheduling, invoicing, and record-keeping.

Some of the apps are free forever, others have a fee. Either way, once you start making money,  they are a cost of you growing your business and your income. 

The question is not if you will use apps, it’s which ones.

How to Get Notary Signing Clients

You can open your business as a signing agent for little money. But you’ve got to invest in getting the word out or you’ll make no money.

Before the internet, businesses had to have an expensive Yellow Page ad, a storefront, or both. 

Now, you can do the 10 Ways to Get Business and keep all the fees yourself, or you can work with an agency and split the money with them.

Either way, you must invest time or money in getting clients!

When you list yourself with Signing Agencies, you let them do your marketing...for a fee.

Especially when you are starting out, using an Agency can make sense. You can count on making money because they get loads of calls from a gazillion clients. 

There is a fee for getting work from them, but it’ll cost you time to do the marketing if you don’t pay them. You pay either time or money to get signings. You choose. 

You also choose when you are available, which is a big plus. 

After building your notary signing business, what's next?

As a Notary Signing Agent, your income is limited to the amount of time you work. But, you can easily look outside of your signing business to add more income. 

As a singing agent, you get a peak at many other businesses and chances to make connections.

Maybe you’ll want to get your real estate license or buy and flip homes. 

After doing inspections as a notary, maybe you’ll want to become qualified as a Real Estate appraiser. 

Or have the Escrow, Title, or Legal offices inspired some other vision?

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