Can ‘just’ listening to your passengers get you more tips? It sure can, and today senior RSG contributor Jay Cradeur shows us exactly how we can become better listeners and get more tips as drivers.
Check it out. $177 in tips last week.
Do you realize that if I did this every week for 50 weeks of the year, I would earn an additional $8,850 on top of my normal rideshare driving revenue? What can you do with an extra $8,850?
In this week’s round up, rideshare faces some challenging questions, new opportunities for transporting seniors, and Lyft’s new suite of updates for drivers. Senior RSG contributor John Ince covers that – and more.
This week, I’ll be at LA CoMotion moderating a panel on the future of rideshare and shared mobility. Stop by and say hi if you’re attending! Also, this Saturday (November 17) I’ll be hosting a public session on what it’s like to be a rideshare driver in LA and the future of the passenger experience. Register here to attend this free event – the first 25 attendees will get a signed copy of my new book!
Out of the five biggest delivery companies out there, which ones are the best for drivers? It turns out, they all have good and bad qualities. Which one is right for you? Senior RSG contributor Dash Bridges has done them all and today he breaks down the best and worst parts of DoorDash, Postmates, Uber Eats, Instacart and Eaze.
You can check out sign up bonuses (if offered) for these companies here.
I completed my first on demand delivery just over three years ago, on Labor Day 2015. Looking back recently, something dawned on me: I’m a cagey old veteran!
Since that first order, I’ve completed more than 4,100 additional deliveries among five of the most prominent services. I’ve been around the mobile-app demand economy delivery services block. So, let’s take a pause and look back at who I’ve delivered for:
Since we have five different companies, all with basically similar processes (onboarding, app interface, etc.), it’s possible to rank them by their features from best to worst. There are strengths and weaknesses to all of these services. These are based on MY experiences, and some interfaces may have changed over the ensuing months or years. Regardless, these are my observations.
If you thought navigation was as simple as turning on your GPS and following your map app, think again. Today, we have our first post from Victor Hoff, who shares his top navigation tips, and why they’re important to master, especially for new drivers.
Congratulations! You’ve figured out which rideshare gigs work best for you, you passed your background check and have had your car successfully inspected and now you’re ready to get on the road and start make money. Simple, right? Well, for the most part, it is. Driving for Uber, Lyft, Postmates or any one of a growing number of service-oriented rideshare opportunities that require a car have helped thousands of men and women like us turn our love of driving into a fairly reliable income stream.
But in order to really capitalize on the opportunity, we have to think of ourselves as less like independent contractors and more like small business owners.
So how do we do that? We market ourselves. And you don’t even require a degree in marketing to be successful at it. If you just follow a few simple core principles, most of the hard work has already been done for you by the thousands of drivers who followed the same path you are about to embark on. So without further adieu:
This week, I’ll be at LA CoMotion moderating a panel on the future of rideshare and shared mobility. Stop by and say hi if you’re attending! Also, this Saturday (November 17) I’ll be hosting a public session on what it’s like to be a rideshare driver in LA and the future of the passenger experience. Register here to attend this free event – the first 25 attendees will get a signed copy of my new book!
Can using Uber and Lyft’s destination filter help you boost your earnings? Yes – if you use it wisely. Today senior RSG contributor Jay Cradeur shows exactly how he uses destination filters in San Francisco to stay consistently busy and earn more. If you’re not using the destination filter to its fullest, try Jay’s strategies and let us know if that helps to increase your earnings!
When Uber and Lyft first unveiled the Destination Filter in late 2016, I thought it was great. I felt it would be very useful at the end of the day, heading home, and not wanting to waste time deadheading all the way. It took me about a year before I really started to understand the possibilities of the Destination Filter.
In this article, I will share the many ways to fully utilize the Destination Filter to produce extraordinary results.
