Become a Mystery Shopper (totally free on this website!)
I have put together a directory online for scheduling companies you
can use to sign up with and start evaluating. These companies do not ask you for any money to sign up. It's
free. If anyone asks you for money to be added to their database keep away from that company. It's a scam.
Go to my directory page to submit applications to the scheduling companies.
Know This Before You Start!
Here are a few basic technical requirements for people who want
to become mystery shoppers. In order to do this work, you must have the following:
- Telephone
- Internet access
- Email
- Access to a Fax Machine or Scanner
- Printer
- Watch (Stop watch or standard watch with hands - no digital)
- Work Log of Some Format (You can put something together that
works for you.)
- Filing System of Some Kind (Recommended)
Work Logs for Shoppers Use
This will help you keep tract of :
- Assignments you have completed
- How much you've been paid throughout the year
(for taxes)
- What payments are due and when they are due.
- When your next assignments are due & where they are
located.
- Keep track of usernames and passwords for all companies you complete assignments for.
- Keep track of companies that offer message boards with job offers listed on them.
Form Filler Recommendation (Typeitin
Pro)
It is not a requirement to have a form filler in your computer
to fill out all the applications for you quickly, but it is recommeneded. You can do the work without it, it just
makes your start a lot quicker. The key to staying busy with mystery shopping is
getting as many applications filled out as possible from the online directory. Work your way through the directory
from start to finish. Set your self a goal like 2-3 per day and after 3-4 weeks, your assignment choices will be in
your email inbox. These forms are all done online. Let me recommend a program I use called Typeitin
Pro. (I don't get anything for promoting this, but it is a great program that will
help you move along much faster!) It is a program that you can download and try for 60 days for free.
After the trial period it is $19.95, and it is really worth the price, but again, you don't have to have it. I have
used it online for alot more than just applications. The program allows you to create clickable buttons in it for each
field you may have to fill out on a online form. Typeitin floats over top of the window browser you
are using while you use it. Once you've set up all your field buttons, you go to your form online, click on the
first field ( Name, Address, etc.) and click on the button you have created in the Typeitin program with
the answer for that field and it automatically fills in the information for you. It has a huge number of uses and buttons
that you can create. So you only have to type the information up once for the Typeitin button and the rest of the time
you just click the button and the program automatically fills in the information for you over and over. I
have found it most useful for questions on applications that require a paragraph of information. You can create a button
in TypeItIn Pro that will fill in a whole paragraph of information. It allows me to fill out a form in a snap.
Once you've gotten it set up sufficiently, you can whiz through those online applications with your tab key and your mouse
button while it fills in field after field for you. For more information on this program, go to http://www.wavget.com/. I would personally not recommend
using GATOR. Every time I tried that program (and I tried it first because it is totally
free) it messed up my computer and it is very hard to uninstall. Gator comes with spyware. Leave it alone.
:)
