Dronebase, Droners.io, and Fly Guys (three of the drone job brokers I have found) are real companies, and I have gotten jobs from all of them. You're supposed to be able to tell them how far away you are willing to travel for a job, but doesn't always work out that way. Droners only lets you tell them what states I'm interested in. Since I live in Chattanooga, TN, which is close to Georgia and Alabama, I set my profile for Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, but I get notified of all the jobs in all of those three states, the majority of which are outside the radius I'm willing to consider, 50-60 miles. I would travel further if there's two or more jobs close together, but I'd have to be coordinating that myself. Droners is a "race to the bottom" broker, and you can see how many bids have been submitted on the job, but you don't know what the other pilots have bid, and what their experience/equipment is. The customer sets the budget, the broker gets a cut, so unless you bid low enough, you're out of luck most times. I don't think they even care too much about your reputation and experience. Droners.io is just a website marketplace. The brokers probably are not drone pilots, or they would do the jobs themselves, so the question I have is: how do they find out about these job in order to advertise them to the general drone pilot community, who end up working for very little and taking all the risk? Obviously the pilots subscribing to this service are either just starting out or are not willing to do the leg work to build up a business of their own, including building a website - mandatory these days for any kind of service business like this. I'll lump myself in with the latter group, I need to do better marketing of my business instead of relying on crumbs from these brokers.
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