Thirteen hundred and fifty dollars in nine hours!
We don't wanna wait make your left turn on what's up she's back
Five dollars for three point eight km
My wife and I made $1350 delivering. We did this in less than nine hours and this is how we did it.
So we leveraged two bonuses that Uber was offering. So the first one is the Uber referral
bonus and every driver has access to this. In my market it is a $300 bonus and basically I just
sent my wife Lacey a referral link and she used my code to sign up. To qualify for the bonus she
needed to complete 40 trips and that would entitle me to $300. Now at the time of filming the video
there was a $750 sign up bonus for new drivers in Adelaide so of course she qualified for this
bonus as well. So we went out and delivered for five lunch shifts and three dinner shifts
that's it. And when I say shift I mean like one hour at a time so we actually ended up doing just
under nine hours. So what did I learn doing this with a new driver? Well the first thing I learned
was that new drivers are not going to make $30 an hour. Sorry to break it to you.
If you're a new driver watching this and you are expecting to make $30 to $35 an hour
I think it's unlikely. There's two main reasons why I think it's unlikely. Number one is
navigating the streets. So if you are local and you've had some experience
delivering or driving in your area you are at an advantage but if you're new to the area it's
tough because you need to learn the area you need to learn the streets. One of the things that makes
it difficult is the Uber in-app navigation regularly gives you the wrong directions! The
visual direction on the map is fine but the audio direction that you listen to
often says turn left when it actually means turn right!?!
So you do need to you need to know where you're going and you need to look
at the app to see which way the road is or which way the directions are going.
The second part of this knowledge is the restaurants and the wait times
and unfortunately the only way you can get that is through experience so you need to experience
which restaurants take a long time which restaurants take a long time when it's busy
which restaurants are always ready so you know where are the best pickups in your area.
The only way you're going to get that is through time and experience
so that's really going to impact your hourly rate when you're new. And even me when I started
my initial earnings were about $28 an hour and I had a lot of experience
delivery driving in my area, in the past, so as an experienced delivery driver
I only had to learn the restaurants. If I had to learn the streets and the restaurants
and the app it would have been a lot a lot less than $28 an hour so give yourself some time.
You'll get there but you won't be there straight away. The second thing that I learned was the
sign up process can be pretty painful. Obviously my wife has a married name and her maiden name
so her identity documents don't always match and you would think that for a big company like Uber
being able to sort through a maiden name and a married name should be easy but it's not. It's
very painful. So be prepared to spend some time getting that type of thing resolved
during the sign up process. We actually went out, we had her all signed up and ready to go.
We went out for her first shift on the Monday at lunchtime. We did three deliveries and then and
then we got booted off the app and it was because her identity documents apparently didn't match
but it was the whole maiden name married name issue. It got sorted out quickly. It got sorted
out on the Monday night and we got back on the app on Tuesday lunchtime but you just need to keep on
support. Keep on top of them and make sure they know what's happening with your identity documents
and why there's an issue or you need to understand why there's an issue and make them fix it. They
are responsive they do want new drivers on the app but you just need to keep on top of it. The third
issue for new drivers is the app itself. It's just learning the app learning how to use the app how
to read the map. The map does turn around. The navigation turns around. Knowing how to reject an
order, how to cancel an order that you've accepted by mistake or cancel an order that you're having
a problem with. How to contact support so you can phone support, you can get in-app support.
So you need to to understand how to do all those things. My best advice here is to,
you know, get on YouTube look at tutorials and learn from other people's experiences
on how to use the app and what are the latest app updates. So that uh it just makes makes it
easy for you to hit the ground running. So yeah like I said we worked eight hours and 58 minutes
we earned $303 dollars from deliveries in that time. We earned three hundred dollars through
my referral bonus and we earned seven hundred and fifty dollars from Lacey's sign up bonus.
So all up over thirteen hundred and fifty dollars for under nine hours of work! Sweet! All in all
that was a pretty successful week. I can't really help you with the sign up process but if you
are in Adelaide and you do wanna uh want some help getting started on UberEats check out the
description box below. I've put some email details in there. I'm more than happy to come out and help
you to get started on your first day if you if you're willing to sign up using my referral bonus.
We all benefit from that and then I can come out spend some time with you and help you get started
and give you some information about restaurants your area etc and yeah get you off to a good
start. I think UberEats is a good option uh as a side gig. It can be done as a full-time thing um
you have to be prepared to work in the evenings during the dinner time
mainly and also you know some lunch times uh but you can make it a full-time job
but yeah it's definitely a good side side gig for me and I enjoy it. So, you know, if you're
interested I would absolutely recommend it. You need to enjoy driving. You need to be confident
parking uh parking around busy areas like busy shopping centers, in the city those type of places
and yeah you just need to be patient to get started and learn how to to increase your income.
If you get started hit me up. Look forward to seeing you out there.