When a client requests you to complete a task, you have to answer the client within 30 minutes or you lose the task and your rating goes down. (How do you get a client to cancel a task? Use those customer service skills you showcased during your TaskRabbit application!) Make sure you can respond to tasks within 30 minutes. Instead, get the client to cancel the task, which won’t affect your rating. Maybe it’s more complicated than you thought, or maybe something else came up that you have to deal with immediately. Sometimes you accept a task that you realize you won’t be able to complete. I did a same-day rate task and got paid $40 an hour to wait in an empty warehouse for a package (that never arrived) and I just got to chill! Never forfeit a task. Same-day tasks are great because the rates that TaskRabbit sets for you are often much higher than what you’d typically charge. TaskRabbit lets you book tasks by appointment you can also sign up for same-day tasks and be assigned to whoever needs help. ![]() Don’t forget to raise your rates for the next moving gig! If you have a free day, opt into same-day tasks. Moving is one of the most strenuous tasks but you can usually make a good amount of money doing it. ![]() TaskRabbit doesn’t offer any kind of benefits package, so think about getting free stuff from moving as one of your little perks. I tasked for someone who happened to be my shoe size and she gave me cute shoes! I’ve also gotten water bottles, reusable bags, and more. On the subject of movers: when people move, they usually give stuff away. If you’re physically capable, help people move-you often get free stuff! Some movers, for example, work for over $60 an hour! You’ll never know what you’re worth until you raise your rates. People sometimes pay ridiculous amounts of money just so they have the peace of mind of knowing their task will get done. The thing about TaskRabbit is it seems like literally anyone could do these tasks.Why should someone pay me $30 an hour to sit on the Shakespeare in the Park line? But don’t undersell yourself. I did this and my across-the-board rates are now close to $30 an hour, which means my take-home is over $20 an hour. Instead, test how high your city’s gig economy market will go by raising all your rates by $1 every time you get hired. In theory, you’ll get hired for more tasks if you say you’ll work for less money than other taskers, but taking a bunch of low-ball jobs, especially if they involve running all over the city, can take a toll on your life. I treat TaskRabbit like an economic experiment. Every time someone hires you, raise your rates by $1 across the board. Agree to whatever low rate they suggest so you have a higher chance of getting approved. TaskRabbit won’t let you work for under minimum wage, and the company takes 30 percent of your earnings-so you might be tempted to set a high rate, only to see TaskRabbit counter with a lower rate. Be willing to work for low rates AT FIRST.īefore your application gets approved, TaskRabbit will ask you to set your rates. ![]() There’s a video component.) Make sure to be incredibly positive and customer-service oriented when answering these questions so they’re more likely to approve you. I added so many exclamation points in my application you would think I was the one paying TaskRabbit to work! Just picture your bubbliest customer service person (hard for me, a native New Yorker), and pretend they’re writing your application. Part of TaskRabbit’s application asks taskers to list their skills and talk about their experience. Be incredibly effusive in your application.īecoming a “tasker” for TaskRabbit is a competitive process, especially in larger cities. In light of IKEA’s recent purchase of TaskRabbit, which will no doubt increase the number of available TaskRabbit tasks and the amount of money taskers can earn, here are tips to help you start tasking and cash out as much as possible. That 30-minute rule is one of TaskRabbit’s many quirks, which is something you learn to navigate when you start tasking. Not because I’m checking to see if my Seamless has arrived or because I’m addicted to News Alerts-it’s because I only have 30 minutes to respond to my next potentially lucrative task on TaskRabbit. ![]() Whenever my phone goes off, I lunge for it like I’m trying to catch it before it shatters.
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