I love a good alliteration so much, I am willing to annoy you with that abomination. I just can’t help myself! 

Okay, okay, So the proper title of this letter really is: 

The Perfect Pivot for a Notary Public. Sigh… 

It’s still true, but not nearly as clever. As a Notary Public and entrepreneur, one of the gifts we enjoy is that the service we provide is often required.  

• Want to buy that house? Get notarized!

• Want to sell that car? Get notarized?

• Want to send your kid to Timbuktu without you? Better get notarized!

But guess what… 

Your notary services aren’t the only ones required for commerce to ensue.  

Fingerprinting is another essential service of our modern economy. 

The enormous increase in remote employees, virtual businesses, and increased security/safety checks, has created a high demand for convenient  fingerprinting services. 

• Want that new job? Get fingerprinted!

• Want to volunteer with those children or seniors? Get fingerprinted!

• W

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Let me introduce you to an idea that’s both simple and surprisingly powerful.

It starts with one text message a day.

Before I explain, a quick bit of context.

Over the past three years, I’ve been working closely with a company called My Life & Wishes, the creators of a digital Legacy Vault, which is a secure place where people can organize everything their loved ones would need if something unexpected happens.

Think:

• Important documents

• Account information

• Passwords

• Final wishes

• Instructions for family

This has traditionally been something offered by estate planning attorneys and financial advisors.

Now, notaries have access to it too as Legacy Vault Partners.

That means, notaries can sell lifetime access to the vault to anyone they’d like and keep 100% of the revenue. These retail for $495 each. 

Here’s where it gets interesting.

Let’s run a simple thought experiment.

What if you sold one Legacy Vault per week?

Just one.

That’s $495 a week, or ...

When you step into a medical facility, you’re not walking into a routine appointment. You’re walking into real life, often at one of its most vulnerable moments. The documents are serious. The people are stressed. The margin for error is slim. And in many cases, you don’t get a second chance.

That’s exactly why The Compassionate Notary by Laura Biewer matters so much.

This book isn’t just a “how-to.” It’s a standard-setter.

I wrote a public review shortly after reading it, and I meant every word:

This book is so much more than a field guide. It’s a masterclass in presence, professionalism, and compassion.

I’ve been a mobile notary for years. I’ve walked into hospitals, hospices, rehab centers, and care facilities more times than I can count. And still, I found myself dog-earing pages, highlighting sections, and thinking, I wish I’d had this fifteen years ago.

That alone should tell you something.

Why Medical Facility Notarizations Are Different

Hospital and hospice n...

One of the biggest mindset shifts I ever made as a notary entrepreneur was this:

I stopped waiting to be needed, and I started creating the need.

What do I mean by that?

Well, in the beginning, I used to sit around hoping someone would need a notary. I was at the mercy of someone else’s timeline, someone else’s emergency, someone else’s lack of preparation.

But then I discovered something powerful: When I started having conversations about estate planning, about protecting legacies, about getting important documents in place, I stopped being a reactive service provider and became a proactive resource (I did the same thing with real estate clients too).

That shift not only brought in more business, it brought in more purpose.

That’s one of the reasons I’m so excited to announce a new partner in our 3-Tier Estate Planning Referral System: AmeriEstate Legal Plan.

AmeriEstate has been helping families with comprehensive, custom, attorney-prepared estate plans since 1998. They’ve ser...

There’s a reality about the notary profession that most people outside of it never see....

A huge percentage of notarial work happens behind the scenes, privately, and without any real oversight.

And here's the thing, there's an estimated one billion notarized documents every year.  

No public database of notarizations.

No centralized quality control.

No routine audit of whether the work was done correctly.

And, frankly, most of the time, that’s fine…

Until it isn’t.

And here's part of the problem:

In many states, the threshold to become a notary is exceptionally low. 

A short application. 

A modest fee. 

Maybe a basic exam (Sometimes not even that). 

And once commissioned, a notary can practice for years, even decades, without anyone ever reviewing their work. 

That means a notary can be doing things incorrectly or non-compliantly for a very long time…

And no one ever knows.

It’s not a problem…

Until it’s a problem.

Until a document is contested in court.

Until a pr...

Each month, thanks to NotaryAssist, we’re giving away one of their professional fashion backpacks to members who are active inside our free Skool community. 

If the winner is also a paid NotaryAssist user, they get $100 cash on top of it!

The way to win is to show up, participate, and use the tools we provide to help you reach your goals in 2026.

That’s it.

Now, here’s why this matters enough for me to lead with it as we head into the new year.

Bookkeeping is where too many notary businesses stall out because there’s no system in place.

So we see the same problems over and over:

• Not knowing how much you actually made

• Scrambling at tax time (Or year end…Just saying!)

• Forgetting mileage

• Storing receipts in shoeboxes

• Invoices going out late (Or not at all)

• Having no idea who has paid you and who has not

• Avoiding your numbers

This is considered “normal” in small business ownership, so it’s not just you. You aren’t flawed. 

It’s just a systems ...

Most people are looking for the next exciting opportunity. Fingerprinting isn’t that. And that’s exactly why it works.

Everyone talks about opportunities:

• New niches. 

• New add-ons. 

• New ways to pivot when the market shifts.

Very few people talk about what actually holds a business steady. Fingerprinting sits in a different category than most notary work. It is not trendy. It does not come with hype cycles. It does not rely on persuasion or clever marketing.

It is required.

That distinction matters more than most people realize.

Loan signings are transactional. They can pay well, but they are tied to market cycles and volume you do not control.

GNW and other specialty appointments are episodic. Of course, they matter. Of course, they are valuable. But they come in waves.

Fingerprinting is different. This is ongoing compliance work. It supports systems that must keep running.

• Government

• Healthcare

• Education

• Financial services

• Immigration

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If you don’t have the results you want as a notary entrepreneur, you don’t have a time problem.

You have a prioritization problem.

And you’re not alone. 

We all have way too much on our plates, and most of it doesn’t actually move the needle on our goals.

In the notary world, that problem is amplified because so much of what we do feels legitimate, necessary, and helpful.

Phones ring. 

Emails ding. 

Clients need things. 

People want answers.

It all feels important.

That’s where Eisenhower’s decision-making matrix becomes incredibly useful. 

The Eisenhower Decision Matrix

So let’s slow this down and make it practical, because once you really understand this framework, prioritization stops being a guessing game and starts becoming a skill that you can gradually improve with practice.

According to the matrix, there are only four kinds of tasks in your world.

1. Important and urgent.

2. Important but not urgent.

3. Urgent but not important.

4. Neither urgent nor import

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Most mobile notaries I meet have something in common: 

They’re multi-service and multi-talented.

In addition to notarization, they offer other services like: 

• Apostilles. 
• Trust deliveries. 
• Certified translations.
• The Legacy Vault. 
• Fingerprinting. 
• Real estate work. 
• Insurance. 
• You name it.

But the challenge they have is talking about their services. 

For one, it’s not always appropriate to discuss other services at the signing table, depending on our client agreements and relationships. 

Second, most notaries are intimidated or afraid to even mention other services even if it would be helpful to their signers. 

That’s the problem I’ve been working to solve with Linda Benningfield over the last few weeks, and we landed on something I think is going to change this industry in a pretty meaningful way.

Linda is a Canva template designer and I asked her to crawl inside my brain and extract this concept I had for a “leave-behind” brochure, or postcard for notaries to l...

One of the biggest reasons entrepreneurs spin their wheels is simple. We don’t stop long enough to notice that we’re spinning our wheels. We hit Monday with good intentions, we get lost in appointments or distractions, and by Friday we’re wondering where the week went. I’ve lived that cycle more times than I care to admit.

That’s why our motto inside the High Performance Notary community (HPN) is no more wasted weeks. 

And it’s not just a motto, it’s a framework you can build a dream business on.

The No More Wasted Weeks Framework

It starts with the Sunday Success Ritual, a distraction-free planning session where you review your prior week, celebrate wins, account for revenue and progress, button up loose-ends, and  choose the three priorities that will actually move your business forward this week (We do it together in HPN). 

These Top 3 Priorities are not busywork, nor are they daydream items. These are the real tasks or projects that move the needle on your business: bold, spec...