Journey Of Becoming A Medical Courier: Laying The Foundation

what's up y'all Toya here and I am back with another video for y'all before we get into the video make sure you guys leave a like subscribe and hit that notification bell all right y'all so first off before I even get into this video I want to apologize if I sound nasy or congested at any point in this video I'm getting over being sick again so just wanted to go ahead and point that out if I sound a little off but yeah but today I want to do something a bit different I want to go

ahead and let you guys in on what I been working on in the background and this is essentially my journey my journey to becoming a medical Courier so I want to go ahead and take you guys with me and essentially show you guys my journey so this first video is going to be essentially talking about laying the foundation so we're going to talk about the what the why and the how so let's go ahead and get into it so what is a medical Courier so the simplest answer to that is a person that transports medical

items and those items they can vary they could be prescriptions they could be specimens so blood urine samples tissue samples they could be organs it could be instruments or supplies it could be important patient documentation it's a lot of different things that you could transport as a medical Courier now the next question is why why become a medical Courier now I'm not going to lie the very first time I came across anything medical Courier related was when I was watching cars and cribs and he was doing the deliveries of the test kits from I don't

know if it was Walgreens or CV s but he was delivering those to the airport and that was Prime pandemic time when you can go through the drive-thru and get a test right so he was transporting those and the only thing I saw I'm not going to lie I saw that he said he could make about $200 something dollars on those routes and the name of that app was drop off and I applied to drop off with the quickness and I think I was a little bit too late because they went ahead and stop doing

those routes now you can still sign up for drop off I have tried a couple times but I have not heard back but I might have a little bit more luck in the future because I'm kind of working on some certifications and things like that that you can add to your profile so only time will tell we'll see but the only thing I saw was you can make $200 off of that route I was like look I got to go ahead and figure out what apps I could sign up for so I can do this

medical Courier thing right and at the time I didn't really know like what all entailed with becoming a medical Courier I'm thinking oh you just have to sign up for an app it's a lot more than that now I didn't know this right off the bat but I definitely learned this pretty quickly more recently and just so you guys know of course if you've been around you know that I mention my mom occasionally I do take care of her because she needed a kidney transplant and luckily we ended up getting the call and she got

her kidney so during that time frame you know it was just kind of it was kind of funny how everything kind of worked out because I took a break from the channel obviously because you know I was helping take care of her and and as I'm scrolling through social media so Facebook Tik Tok you know different platforms for some reason I just kept coming across medical Courier this medical Courier that how to become a medical Courier I'm like why why why am I getting all of these ads for medical career and I'm like you know

what maybe I should take this as a sign let me go ahead and take some time look into this like thoroughly look into it and see what this is all about and you know I just kind of think about how how crazy the timing and everything was because one I've already been working in the medical industry not exactly in a medical position but I work in a medical facility I've been working there for almost 10 years now so I'm super familiar with the space you know we have to do training every year of course you

know with patient safety patient confidentiality you know being aware of how certain diseases are spread how to dispose of things properly things like that so you know it's just mandatory training when you're working in that type of environment right right you may not be working directly with patients but they want you to be trained right so a lot of the stuff that I ended up learning I already knew because I have previous experience I have to learn this every single year from my training right combine that with the fact that my mom just got a

transplant knowing that there was potentially another medical Courier out there you know someone who I want to be like right you know they were able to provide that service to get the organ to where it needed to be so my mom could get that transplant right and knowing that I have the potential to be able to bring that same amount of happiness that I got when we got that call you know I could go and bring that to another individual you know it's not just a simple thing of like oh you're picking up this you're

dropping this off I mean yes the job in itself is technically simple per se right but you're making such a huge difference and you may not even know it you're probably never gonna meet the people on the other side right and even myself you know I work in it right and technically I'm not coming in contact with patients but my job that I do what I do every single day it still does have an impact on patient care so it's kind of the same sense I guess you can say but not to go ahead and

get into too much of you know background but you know I just felt like it was just perfect timing how everything just kind of lined up and I was like you know what I'm going to take this as a sign I'm seeing medical Courier this medical Courier that I think I need to take a pause and actually look into this a bit more and that's what I did that's what I did what I'm going to do now at this point we're going to talk about the how I'm going to go over a few things that

you need to know and what you need to establish in order to take that step into becoming a medical career so the first thing you're going to want to do is start doing research for 1099 opportunities in your area because when you're starting off most of the work that you're going to be getting is going to be via a contract through an existing courier company so start doing your research figure out what are their requirements every company is going to be different because everything that I'm about to go through on this list you know you

don't necessarily need it for every single contract but before you make that commitment because you're going to actually have to spend some money for some of these items that way if you want to do a test run just to see you know is this something that you actually want to do you don't go ahead and spend all of this money getting all of this set up just to find out it's not really something that you want to do so do some research to see if you can find some companies that you can contract with kind

of get your feet wet and see if it's something that you actually might want to do go ahead and see what their requirements are and you can go ahead and take those steps if you want to actually get deeper into it so the first thing you're going to want to do you need to establish an LLC so right off the bat you are going to be spending money the LLC cost is going to depend on your state you can be spending anywhere from 50 bucks up to two maybe $300 in Illinois it cost me $150

now I will give you a couple tips on filing this LLC but I am not a professional there are literally channels dedicated to walking you through this whole process so remember like I said every state is different so if you have particular questions about an LLC I cannot help you with that okay I'm just going to go ahead and go through my process how I file my and just give you a couple of tips along the way so you can save yourself some money okay how you file your LLC is going to be up to

you you can go directly through your State's website and file it pay the fee and be done with it right or you can go through a thirdparty company that will file the LLC on your behalf and you can actually get additional services on top of that if you would like now be careful when it comes to working with these companies I have seen a lot of reviews for some companies some of them saying that it takes them too long to get stuff filed some of them have hidden fees you have to be careful when you're

using these Services okay so the company that I used not sponsored but I used busy they were super simple I literally just paid the filing fee for the state and that's it they do offer other services if you would like but these are all optional one reason I chose busy was because they offered a registered agent for free for the first year so I'm taking full advantage of that opportunity and I decided to go with them now the next thing that you need is an EIN number an EIN number is required for you to create

a business bank account and the EIN number is sometimes a requirement for some of these contracts just like the LLC is when you're filing your LLC some of these companies they do offer that they can file the EI in for you however I would highly recommend that you do do not because they do charge a fee even the busy site that I use they said we can file it for $70 well guess what you can file your EIN for free yourself through the federal website for free literally and it only takes like 10 15 minutes

and you get access to your number immediately so you can go ahead and do what you need to do open up your bank account whatever right so again I just wanted to give you guys a couple of little tips cuz I don't want people to go out here and start using these services and they didn't spent about $3 $400 for no reason so make sure you're doing all of your research if one of these companies is offering you something check to see if you can do it for free or cheaper sometimes it looks good when

they bundle everything up together you're like okay I can just go ahead and get everything taken care of all at once make sure you do your research see how you can go ahead and save yourself some money which leads me to the next thing getting a business bank account so this is going to vary on your needs when you're first starting off you don't need anything flashy you don't need nothing crazy you can go ahead and get yourself a simple bank account no minimum fees are required there's no cost to use it stuff like that

get something simple so you can keep track of your expenses and honestly I kind of wish I did this in the beginning for just my own business purposes because between gig work YouTube merch and speaking of merch if you haven't make sure you check out my website so you can go ahead and purchase a merch this is actually one of the designs that you guys can get so make sure you guys go ahead and check out my merch link it is in the description below had to goe and put that little plug in there but

having a business bank account makes things so much easier for tracking that way you can separate your business income and expenses from your personal income and expenses after that you need to verify if you need any specific business licenses for your state again a lot of this stuff does vary on your state some things I might need in my state that you won't need and vice versa so make sure you do your research to see if there's any particular licenses that you need for your business to operate make sure you check on these because in

the event that you do not get the appropriate license you can be fined and you will have to pay a lot more than what it would have cost to actually get that license so make sure you're checking everything making sure you have everything covered at the state level local level all of that make sure you got everything checked off upgrading your car insurance so again this is also going to vary on the contract some contracts might allow you to use your basic car insurance that you have some of them might need you to go a

tier higher or you might have to actually get commercial car insurance I have quoted commercial car insurance and it is not cheap so what I'm doing personally is that I'm going to go ahead and work on getting contracts that don't require me to have that super high Insurance because I at least want to get a decent flow of income because having having an extra bill of like 500 plus just on car insurance is not really something that you might be able to do right off the bat that's just my suggestion I'm just looking for contracts

that don't require me to go crazy on my insurance if I do have to go and do that little upgrade to say that oh yeah my vehicle is being used for business purposes I can go ahead and do that instead of paying a whole extra $5 or $600 for commercial insurance I am planning on purchasing another vehicle specifically for business purposes but this is just a plan that I came up with because I went ahead and decided to pay off my personal car so that's one less bill I have to worry about and take that

money and put that towards getting a new vehicle that way I can save this car a little bit more of course I'll still be using this for you know some of the small jobs but I am going to go ahead and get a larger vehicle to accommodate those larger orders it'll be a good way to keep you know everything separate I would say don't go and purchase a new vehicle right off the bat just because you know make sure you have all your expenses in order and of course you might want to just test the

waters like I mentioned earlier get contracts that don't require you to get a lot upfront okay test the waters in your own personal vehicle first and then if it is something that you think you can expand on then you can look at purchasing another vehicle for this endeavor okay because I don't want people to go ahead and make these decisions like oh my goodness you know I can go and make $2 $3,000 a week off of this and they end up purchasing a vehicle and they're not Landing contracts and this thing's collecting D but they

still got to go ahead and pay on it do not go ahead and make decisions like that get a little flow of income in and then you can start to scale up so just putting it out there next you have to get certain certifications this is going to vary on the contract and it's going to vary on what you are transporting one thing I will say is when you do get the contract this is going to be something I'll probably discuss when I finally do start getting contracts do not deliver something that is not part

of the contract so if your contract says you're supposed to be delivering specimens and one day you show up for your pickup and they're like oh you know we don't have specimens today but we have all of these scalples and this medical equipment and this and that we need you to transport if that's not in the contract do not touch it okay you are only to be delivering whatever is in that contract I say this because certain certifications cover certain things so for instance bloodborne pathogens you know that's a basic certification Hippa is a basic

certification and there's other certifications like I just got my twit card that came in the mail a couple of days ago the more certifications you have the better these certifications do cost money bloodborne pathogens and the Hippa certification those are probably the cheaper ones I got those for I think I got like a combo for like 60 or 50 bucks if I remember I went through a webinar and I got certified for that twit card allows you special security clearance to get into certain facilities so like airports and docks and things like that that was

I think it was like 12 something so yeah make sure you're checking cuz these things they add up they definitely add up of course you have your TSA certifications like I said Hazmat there's a few other certifications that you can get as well see what is required for those contracts don't go all in spending all of this money trying to get every single certification in the book it does open up more opportunity for you but if you aren't even getting a steady flow just a small little steady flow even if you have like one or

two contracts there's no need for you to go and start getting all of these certifications you need to get established first and then you can start scaling up now after you've gathered all of your certifications your licenses your business accounts and all of this and you you pretty much you're you're established at this point okay there might still be a few other things that you might need to get like I said just depends on the state it depends on the requirements of that company as well once you feel like you've gotten what you need to

get started you need to go crazy and apply apply apply apply apply to pretty much everything that you find Under the Sun so like I said indeed zip recruiter CB driver us pack even going to Walgreens if you happen to go to Walgreens and you're picking up a prescription ask them hey what company do you guys use to have your medication transported they might give you the name of the company you can call them and be like hey I'm looking for a 1099 position you know yada yada yada you know I would like to offer

my services you know you got to get out there and network I actually seen a guy I went to take my mom to go and get some blood work after an appointment and there was a guy that was walking in he had a dolly and he had a box of I don't know what it was but I I could tell he was a medical Courier right and so when he walked past I asked him I was like hey uh quick question are you a medical Courier and he said yeah and I asked him I was

like um you know what company do you work for and he gave me the name of the company I'm like okay thank you I would like to uh reach out to them and see if they had any open 1099 positions would you happen to know and he said you know what not now but I think in the future they are going to be looking for some more drivers probably going into next year so yeah he gave me their information and I'm going to go ahead and reach out to them you know next year so you

know just little things like that you know eventually you can start creating your business cards you can create a website get yourself a business phone number you know these are all things that you don't necessarily have to do like right now at this instant definitely something that you need to consider because you want to go ahead and get yourself out there as much as possible so yeah that's honestly pretty much it so like I said I wanted to do something a little bit different today and just kind of give you guys a little bit of

background on what I've been working on and just let you guys know like you know what I'm doing what is the next step because I'll say every now and then I'm like you know hey you know I don't plan on doing gig work forever you know I want to be independent I Want To Be My Own Boss but gig work is so just up and down you know you can do it don't get me wrong but you need some more stability and I find that this is probably going to offer me the most stability I

feel very connected to this type of work and you know I just want to go ahead and capitalize off of that that's really it and I'm just hoping that you know I can take it to the next level and not only just medical Courier you know you can get contracts for other types of deliveries as well but medical Courier for sure I feel like it is that next step and I'm I'm ready to take that next step so I'm hoping that you guys are ready to join me on this journey and yeah hopefully I help

somebody as well you know if there's anybody that was ever interested in becoming a medical Courier or getting into that business you know I'm hoping that this information helps you as well so yeah I'm looking forward to it so yeah we'll see where this takes us we're going to see where this takes us now before I go I have to remind you guys to leave a like subscribe and hit that notification Bell so you do not miss a video but I'm going go ahead and get up out of here guys I hope you guys enjoyed

this video I'm going catch you guys on the next one and as always stay safe out there and keep grinding