If you’re looking for a side hustle to pick up some extra income, enjoy light physical labor, smart phone apps, and helping your neighbors, then check into being a certified Ring4Retirees installer.
Minimal Tools Required
Cordless drill, drill bits, Phillips bit, wire staple gun, handling low-voltage doorbell wires.
Free online Training
Get product training at home, on your schedule; you must complete the online Ring product certification program, plus participate in two unpaid installations, usually one is at your own home.
No under-cabinet or heavy lifting
If you’re already a handyman, you’ll love Ring; some kneeling required, but no straining, leaky pipes, or other discomfort.
Perfect one or 2-person opportunity: husband/wife, 2 pals, or solo.
While the physical work is being done, the other can help customer with smart phone app setup. Once you’re in practice, make double minimum wage for a 20 minute or so install. Arrange your schedule to suit.
- no cold calls
- no inventory
- no collections (jobs are prepaid)
- no surprises (we pre-screen jobs)
- we supply the customers,
- we supply the product,
- you schedule the work to suit
- 1099, not an employee
High quality and low cost
Ring has the brand recognition, but beyond that, they’ve done their homework to make the app easy to install, easy to use, and easy to support. They have a wide variety of products for every type of construction.
Ring is a perfect handyman install
The major video doorbell challenge for 55+ owners of manufactured housing of all types is that there is no doorbell wiring. So a low-voltage wire has to be passed through the wall, and this requires not only a long drill but also a “fish” or device to pull the wire through the drilled hole. But it’s not an electrician’s job, it’s a wire just like your phone charger.
No Cold-Calls, We supply the customers, (or you give us the referral for 30% More Commission)
Every morning at 8am we post the jobs list for our retiree installers; when you log in, you get first dibs on jobs in your MH community until noon. From 12 on, it’s first come first serve.
I want in!Training, certification, commissions, IRS 1099
As a Ring4Retirees candidate installer, you will be provided free, online standardized training and testing; In addition we require 2 unpaid, accompanied installations be satisfactorily completed to verify your Ring app capability, communication skills, and quality of workmanship. Again, neither the training nor the 2 accompanied installations receive compensation, nor do we provide any tools. One of the installations must be at your own home, hopefully in a large enough community to provide plenty of referrals. Note that for your own home installation, you must pay for and install the same standard $80 “doorbell2 wired” hardware that you will be installing for virtually all customers. But of course it is yours to keep, use, and learn from.
Once certified, commissions are earned and paid by EFT within 24 hours of customer confirmation of a successful installation, and you will be provided a 1099 for reporting.
Once established, in under 10 hours a week, just 32 weeks/yr, you should net nearly $10K. Easy duty. Not enough? We can talk about other roles at Ring4Retirees.
Here’s a typical installation scenario:
During your first 30 installations, you will install according to our “2-stage” installation: a supervisor visits the customer, confirms WiFi and suitable home construction, sells the job, and leaves the doorbell and adapter for the customer to initially setup on their kitchen table, so they have the account, the WiFi connection, the app, and an operating doorbell. So they are partially setup when you arrive. This is the heart of the “2-stage installation $50 discount.” With 2 workers, the physical doorbell install generally takes 15-20 minutes, and the finishing the smartphone app is less. You may choose to stay and chat with the customer, (and we encourage that, as often you will pick up a referral or two). But all of your “work” should not take more than 1/2 or so hour.
East Mesa alone has nearly 100,000 55+ Manufactured Housing (MH) units, nearly all lack doorbell wiring, so there is plenty of potential within easy reach. The average Mesa 55+ MH community has about 1000 units and we’re targeting 25% acceptance initially, so there will be plenty of opportunity for years to come, just in Mesa, alone.
With inflation, we were starting to struggle financially, costs are eating us alive, barely able to go out for occasional dinner or entertainment, and gas to commute to a part time $15/hr job made no sense. As a Ring4Retirees installer, I use my golf cart for most of my installations, right here where I live. I’m meeting and helping neighbors, and making the whole community more secure at the same time. The flexible hours are great, the pay is more than either of us could get anywhere else at our age, and we can now afford to take an overnight trip and really enjoy it!
Frank and Sally Ericsson, Mesa AZ
