Finding Part Time Jobs As Mystery Shoppers

If you have been looking for part-time jobs, you might have come across advertisements that claim that you can make money to eat out and shop - the so-called mystery shopping opportunities. Do these make sense really? Do you really get paid to just go out there, to shop and have a good time? Well, the answer to that would be a yes and a no. You do get to shop for free and often, to keep what you buy; but to get paid for it, you do need to be keenly observant to find useful things to say to your employers about your shopping experience. How do you position yourself to win the best mystery shopping opportunities?

When you go on the Internet looking for part-time jobs, you're likely to come across offers that try to sell you a list of places to apply to. About the first rule of successfully finding part-time jobs is to know that you never pay for lists of places to apply to. Invariably, you can come by the information they sell you, for free, on any reputable mystery shopping or other website. Before you will be accepted as a mystery shopper anywhere, you will need to be registered at several companies as a shopper. There are many mystery shopping opportunities that will only present themselves to you if you have registration information.

With that out of the way, how exactly do you come by these great opportunities? Make sure that when you sign up with any mystery shopping company, that you ask to be notified by e-mail when any opportunity turns up. There are shopping scheduling companies - businesses like Quality Scheduling Group, act as a kind of employment agency for those who look for part-time jobs as mystery shoppers. All you need to do is to sign up for free with such a scheduling company and let them send you on assignments.

There are some mystery shopping companies that run jobs boards. All you need is to sign in and look up the opportunities they have there everyday. Some of them send you e-mail alerts, and some of them don't. Check out A & M Business Services, Customer Perspectives or A Closer Look. For more mystery shopping companies, check out the boards on the online magazine of Work at Home Moms or WAHM. You could also sign onto Volition.com and Delphiforums.com to check their lists of mystery shopping companies and jobs boards for find the best opportunities there are.