Gigwalk Allows Businesses And Users To Easily Connect For Local Contract Work

Available to iPhone owners in the U.S., Gigwalk started out like most other mystery shopper and store auditing apps, such as Field Agent, only being available in a few major cities and gigs involving light duty market research paying around $5. However, the company is expanding beyond those very simple marketing tasks into standard job recruitment. Foremost, we're not going to deny that most Gigwalkers will still be using their iPhone and the Gigwalk app to grab a few bucks here and there by snapping photos of products in various local stores. There's just a lot of demand, low requirements, and small pay. Nevertheless, if you have the qualifications, put the effort in, and prove you can be a reliable contractor, then there's some great new opportunities for regular-type jobs with reasonable to good pay. For example, Gigwalk is now teaming with businesses to offer courier, technical installation, office administration, event staffing, real estate, and even app testing. Obviously more serious than simple market data gathering, being an installation technician, etc is going to be a lot more involved. For one, you'll need to apply with your qualifications, then have your work verified before ever being paid. Thankfully, Gigwalk provides instant messaging, photo sharing, and other tools to help answer questions while on-site and ease the work verification process. In addition, Gigwalk partnered businesses offer private groups, a bonus for users who exhibit continuous quality and reliability. Once invited to a private group, users gain access to job listings without needing to go through the application process. Not only does this make things quicker, but it also allows the chance at higher paying gigs. To take part in any of the gigs, you'll need a Gigwalk account, a PayPal account for payments, and a newer model iPhone. The app does function on iPad and iPod touch, but marking a job as complete must be done at the job location, therefore, requiring the accuracy of an iPhone's GPS. As of now, most gigs are available in the Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Albuquerque, Denver, Twin Cities, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston metropolitan areas. Although, it appears users have found at least one or two gigs in nearly every area of the country. Gigwalk is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4S running iOS 4.3 or later, and available in the App Store as a free download. Image Source: Gigwalk.com [gallery link="file"]

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