Top 5 Reasons to use Sherpa
From Phil, Lyft and Uber driver in Chicago
Presenting the top 5 reasons to use Sherpa, brought to you by Phil, a Lyft and Uber driver in Chicago.
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More state-by-state driver trends
From Arizona, Utah, Kentucky, and Tennessee
More state-by-state driver trends from Arizona, Utah, Kentucky, and Tennessee. We hope you'll continue to help us build your community and increase the data, information, and advice we provide to you as an independent resource for drivers. More detailed data is available on Sherpa CityMetrics.
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Driver Trends from California and Ohio
A closer look at two of Sherpa's most active states
Congratulations to California and Ohio drivers who've been joining Sherpa non-stop! Every new driver that participates in Sherpa helps strengthen your local driving network - thank you!
Here's a snapshot of driver data from these states. We hope you'll continue to help us build your community and increase the data, information, and advice we provide to you as an independent resource for drivers.
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Driver Trends from Texas and Florida
A closer look at two of Sherpa's most active states
Congratulations to Texas and Florida drivers last week who had awesome driver growth! Every new driver that participates in Sherpa helps strengthen the driving network in their city. We hope you'll continue to help us build your community and increase the data, information, and advice we provide you with as an independent resource for drivers.
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A few great posts about Sherpa
From Urbanful, CFED, and RideshareDashboard
We're delighted this week to have a few great posts about Sherpa from a leading urban communities publication, an national economic empowerment organization, and a rideshare expert.
Tech Startup Sherpa Helps Ride Share Drivers Work Smart was published by Urbanful.org, a "destination for celebrating city life and America's evolving cities". Urbanful is a project that has come out of Smart Growth America. This piece captures how Sherpa's fitting in to the competitive rideshare landscape.
To Lyft, Uber, and Sidecar Drivers: Welcome to Sherpa was posted by CFED.org, a national organization aimed at helping low and moderate income households improve their financial security. In June, CFED launched an open call for solutions to discover and highlight strategies that address the key financial challenges facing microbusiness owners, and Sherpa was selected as one of the top solutions.
Uber and Lyft Sherpa Review was published by RideshareDashboard.com, one of the top sources for rideshare driver information in the country. Rideshare Dashboard covers every piece of news in the space, and did a fantastic review of Sherpa and how to make the most of the site.
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Sherpa Active City Rankings - August 31
Los Angeles moves ahead of San Francisco for most active drivers
Happy Labor Day! Here are the Sherpa Active City Rankings for the week ending August 31st. The rankings are based on the number of active Sherpa users in each city.
Los Angeles has moved a couple drivers ahead of San Francisco for the #1 spot. Also, Orange County has moved from 16th to 13th. And, Jacksonville, Orlando, and Washington DC have unlocked CityMetrics!
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Share your ideas and help build the next feature!
We've added lots of features we're excited about recently
In the last couple weeks, we've added some features we're really excited about, including tax estimation and write-off calculations, miles per gallon personalization, expense tracking, and day of the week earnings averages. Now we'd love to hear what you think: What do you particularly like? What do you want to see more of? And what isn't that important to you?
Your feedback can really help shape our next feature! For example, we added the expense tracker last week based on discussion between a few enthusiastic Sherpa drivers. Now it's your turn:
Share your ideas and help build the next Sherpa feature.
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Uber growth tactics and Lyft heat maps
News recap from last week. Share your thoughts!
Last week was another busy week for news between Lyft, Uber, and Sidecar. Particularly between Lyft and Uber, when Uber's growth tactics we're leaked. Neil Irwin with The Upshot at the New York Times wrote, "Uber's Secret Agents: When Poaching Becomes Unethical". The Rideshare Guy continued this conversation yesterday in his weekly news roundup.
As great commentary on both Lyft and Uber as services, yesterday Farhad Manjoo from the New York Times published his piece, Uber and Lyft Have Become Indistinguishable Commodities.
On the Lyft front, several new product and referral changes were announced this week, including heat maps in select Lyft cities. You can see all of the new changes via The Rideshare Dashboard.
Lastly, it was announced Thursday that Uber is expanding in 24 more US cities. Kim Ribbans from Ride. Share. News has covered this and the rest of the latest rideshare news.
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Introducing the Sherpa Expense Tracker
Now you can track all of your driving expenses
Recently, we have been quietly rolling out many new features on Sherpa. One of the major ones we just made available is the Sherpa Expense Tracker.
Requested by our drivers (Thanks Chase and all), we added this tracker yesterday to help you to track expenses like gas, oil, car washes, phone bills, marketing materials, etc. You can then see how your expenses compare to your total earnings. Give it a try and share your thoughts!
To access, login to your dashboard, and click "Expense Tracker" on the top navigation bar
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Customize your fuel efficiency & gas price
We've added this to your Profile. Click your name on the top right
Now you can get a better estimate of your actual fuel spending! In your profile, you can add your miles per gallon (MPG) as well as you local average gas price. Add these in and watch your 'Trip Fuel Cost' change
Login and click your name (top right) to add MPG and fuel price.
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