When we were in the early planning stages of PickupPal we always had the idea of having member profiles and encouraging members to post their photo. Having your photo along with your profile is actually way more important than you think. I have some statistics to back this up - of the Drivers that get accepted offers, 94% post their photos. The number of Drivers within PickupPal that have photos is currently at 41% and the number of Passengers that have photos is at 36%. So I am not a math wizard but there is a high correlation between having your photo as a Driver and having your offer accepted. It stands to reason - if you are going to accept a ride from someone you want to know what they look like first.

So this brings me to another part of this post which is that when we first designed PickupPal we thought - “Ohh we better have some way of reviewing the photos to make sure there are no offensive ones” - so we built an administration tool to do just that. To be honest before we launched we thought this might be a big issue to deal with so we built and administration tool to review all the profile pictures that are posted. Well having done it for a few months now I can truthfully say that there are very very few questionable photos. The funny thing is that I love reviewing them and approving them but so too does Suesan - our fanatical Customer Support Lead and Community Builder Super Star here at PickupPal. So I log in early in the morning to review the ones that came in over night before she gets to them - she however does it throughout the day so she sees more of you than I do. In any event - each one of them I think are great! When you are helping to build a great community like PickupPal it is such a privilege to see who is joining - as if to say welcome. I know that probably sounds really crazy but I am serious it is great to see you as you join in.

So please post your profile picture - it greatly improves your chances of getting offers and having your offers accepted, also Suesan and I really like meeting you.

Cheers - Eric