Alllllll right! Look what came in the mail. Let's talk about it.
Welcome back to the Jeremy Kerstn show where every episode we talk about business,
entrepreneurship, investing, and personal growth. Today we're gonna be talking
about Postmates. That's right. I've already got a Doordash video that I've put
out that's done pretty well. I will link it right up here in the corner and down in
the description below. And it just kind of goes about my experience with Doordash
driving for the first time and today we're going to be trying Postmates.
Postmates I think is a little different. I think that it's more than food.
I'm totally not even sure. That's kind of why I'm doing this video to share it
with you. So first I guess let's open up this cool little bag while I'll open it
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you know, find new side hustles and ways to make an income, whether that be
offline or online e-commerce stores, things like this, whatever. Alright. Let's
check it out. Okay. Postmates bag. See?Kkind of like the Doordash one. I think it's
better cause' I prefer black and I prefer this little E.T. looking dude flying on
the bike better than just a big D. So... you know what? This one is not quite as, yeah
this one's not insulated as much, near as much as the Doordash. The Doordash bag has
like a big silver lining. You know what I mean? For the insulation. But nonetheless,
cool bag that they give you when you sign up and I will put a link to the
sign up for the Postmates down as well in the description below so if you're
interested go down the description, hit that link, it's likely a referral link so
I'd get a little kick but you know that's how you support the
show, right? Okay. Now this little guy right here, "Hey
Postmate let's do this thing." That's what it says. In here there is a little
activation code, right there, cool, "to activate your card open the fleet app or
visit fleet.postmates.com/card". "The only card that earns you money". So I'm
not gonna post, I'm not gonna show the card number. That's probably a bad idea,
actually, I guess it doesn't really matter. Who cares? it's not my it's not
mine. Well no. I will hide it. So this is a
Postmates card. It's a Visa debit card a little black card that they give you. So
there's particular restaurants and stuff that you'll go to that require that you
use the card to pay for the stuff just like Doordash. They give you a little red
card. Most of the time you don't have to. Most of the time the order has already
been paid for online but some particular restaurants require that you swipe the
card or you place the order then swipe the card so I'm assuming this is kind of
the same thing so hold on to this whenever you get one and then like I
said there should be a yeah there's not an identifier number right here and the
last four of the card and that's what you're going to use to actually activate
the Postmates account just like Doordash Same thing. So with all that being said
let's go ahead and activate the account and then we'll get started. We'll go for
a little drive, see what we pick up and what kind of orders are out there.
Well snap! I can't even I can go deliver anything.
I put in the code and all that stuff then it says it's still pending
background checks so I don't know if they were waiting to actually do the
background check until after I submitted the code or if they just take that long
to do the background checks so I guess we'll just have to kind of pause things
right here and wait till that clears and when it does, we'll continue recording
this video and we'll go have some fun so hold on.
Okay! So literally as I was taking down the lights and turning off the lights
and walking away from this because I said hold on a second I got a
notification on my phone that said everything's ready to go so open the
hope that I open that back up the background check was complete so I guess
the lesson there is yes they wait till you submit your code then they do a
quick background check. Apparently it only takes a couple of
minutes! So if you activate your stuff and you're wondering how come yours is
not complete that is why okay so with that being said let's go ahead get started.
All right guys we got our first delivery request. We are on our way over
to Waffle House. I don't know why somebody wants Waffle House at 12:42 in
the afternoon but nonetheless they do so let's go pick it up and take it to this
person. Now it took probably about maybe 10 minutes or so I guess for me to get
my first delivery request. I'm not too surprised because if Postmates is
anything like Doordash, during the lunch time is only kind of so-so as far as
activity goes. Where you're really gonna see the activity is gonna be in the
evenings when people are getting home and they're you know or during dinner
just too busy to cook, too lazy to cook, don't know how to cook, something like
that
and I guess you know you go kind of more inner-city during the day and you might
be able to get some people that are at work and trying to get some delivered to
them but what I found in the suburbs anyways like I said where I live
the evenings is going to be where all the activities at so I don't know. I
don't expect to be working too long this particular run. I just kind of
wanted to try it out show you what it's like so you kind of have the app works
and it's really not too complicated guys you just gonna pick it up food and
delivering it to somebody. On my Doordash video I had someone comment the
other day that they were really nervous and you know that people were kind of
rude to them or something like that and that they probably won't be doing it
again and you know I told the dude, "There's nothing to be nervous about.
You're just picking up food and dropping it off". I mean that's it. It's not it
doesn't have to be complicated, you don't need to be nervous about nothing, you
really don't even need to say anything to anybody, I mean, I
you should be pleasant and say hello have a good day and here you are and all
that kind of stuff other than that man it's not like you got to stand there and
have a conversation with them and give them 10 star frickin customer service. So
I don't know we're almost there that Waffle House already that was I don't
live too far so I'll check about for you just a second. Alright guys so we just
picked up the food here at Waffle House. There it is right there. You know this
one was a little bit more complicated than I think it needed to be. When I got
in the cashier girl said that the customer had called and which I don't
even know why they called you don't need to call maybe she was just trying to
verify that the word had been received or something but something about really
broken English and whenever I was telling the girl what the order was
through the app she was you know kind of confused because she you know said well
you know we don't even have sour cream and stuff like that so little bitty
things that the customer I don't think fully understood and
I don't know I had to place the order myself to the cashier cuz she you know
like I said didn't get it very clearly and then I had to wait for it to be made
so I'm not really sure what that's about I'm wondering if the next order or all
the orders like that I really doubt it usually like I said it's made through
the app but nonetheless let's go ahead and go drop this off.
Okay so I just
dropped it off. There was a special request and the notes of on the app that
said you know please just drop it off in front of the white door which typically
means they don't want you to knock or talk to them so and then I was s can't
talk right now as I was pulling up the person called me you know because they
have that ability to do so I suppose and you have the ability to call or text
them as well through like a hidden app number but anyways she called and was
just like yeah can you make sure you put it in front of the doors so just kind of
told me the same thing and so I did and then I press you know complete trip on
the app and then it tells you what you get paid before tip and shockingly holy
cow it paid like $12.08 or something like
that before tip and I got to tell you that's like pretty much about double
what Doordash will pay you so I'm a little excited about that even though it seems
to be a little slower you don't get as many requests or something like that it
does so far and what I can tell pay more than Doordash so that's pretty exciting. I'll
tell you what here's here's what I'm actually gonna do when I kind of get
back on in on the grind probably later this evening or something like that I'm
gonna turn on Doordash and Postmates at the same time to maximize my chances you
know making money and getting orders that's what I recommend to you you don't
want to have just one stream of income you want to try to have multiple streams.
That's gonna be the trick to staying busy and making the maximum amount of money.
But other than that other differences I
saw that Postmates actually displays the users entire full name I don't know
if that's all the time but I saw my past previous client just now I saw her full
name which Doordash doesn't do that it'll give you like just the first name
and maybe the last names first letter but so I thought that was kind of
strange other than that I mean they seemed pretty similar like I said it's
pick up and drop off it's not rocket science. I'm gonna go ahead and call it a
day for right now it's about you know 1:21 and I haven't eaten yet today so I'm just
gonna go back to the house and eat and maybe pick this up later on but I hope
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