How To Find Secret Shopping Companies

Secret Shopping can be very exciting.  This business is one that is laid back, fun to do and allows you the flexibility to control your destiny.  Yet, if you are to make that happen, you will need to insure that you have the necessary affiliations with the right Secret Shopping companies.  For this, you will need to learn which companies to work with, how to find new ones, as well as which to avoid using if at all possible.

Things to Know First

Before you start on your search for Secret Shopping companies, it is important to take into consideration a few things.  First off, realize that there are two different types of services out there fore you to use.  A Secret Shopping company is one that will allow you to work directly with them in performing shops.  These companies work directly with the companies that you will shop.  These are the companies you want to work with.

The second type of company out there is those that allow you to subscribe to their service and they will list available mystery shops that are available.  This can be a good thing but only when the service is free or the shops are very good, hard to find shops. 

Most of the time, Secret Shopping companies will post their available shops when they become available for the month on their website.  If they do not have enough people to cover those shops, they will then venture to various Secret Shopping message boards and post their shops there.  These are free and just by subscribing to the message board you get this information when available.

There are other companies that will post to some more strict sites where the Secret Shopper has to pay for access to the message boards providing the shop.  When you are just starting out with Secret Shopping, you may not necessarily have to subscribe to these forums.  The fact is that most companies do not use these forums that cost the shoppers anything. 

Learning As You Go

As you begin with your business, you will be able to learn more and more about how things work as you go. That is, you will pick things up as time moves on that will help you to get connected to the right places at the right time.  It is helpful to read all that you can read and to learn all that you can as you go along.

One invaluable way to learn how the business operates is from other Secret Shoppers.  You will find that these people are some of the best people to learn from.  They have had experiences, good and bad, with each Secret Shopping company out there.  That allows for you to be able to get the necessary answers to your questions, to get the details that you need and even help you to find even more companies to work with.

How do you find these people?  You can often find them just by searching the web for message boards relating to Secret Shopping or Mystery Shopping.  Those boards are just like the Secret Shopping message boards out there and in some cases are the same things.  Subscribe to as many message boards that have to do with Secret Shopping as you can.  You are sure to find many helpful people willing to give you that extra tip or answer your question fast.  Of course, they do this for free!

You can also learn quite a bit about the Secret Shopping company just from reading their website.  Sometimes they will even link you to other companies that they work with.  Keep your eyes open here and insure that you are learning as you go.

Finding Secret Shopping Companies

You are sure to be tempted by purchasing information regarding which Secret Shopping companies are out there.  Guess what?  This is a big waste of your money.  Instead of investing in this information, just look for it.  Here are some places you will find many, many companies that you can work with, without charge.

Secret Shopping message boards

• www.wahm.com
• www.volition.com
• www.mysteryshop.org   (a very important site we will see later!)

There are hundreds of more.  To find them, just do a simple web search for Secret or Mystery Shopping companies.  Remember, for now; do not apply to any that require you to pay for them.

Groups

There are also many groups available to you.  Some places to look at on your favorite group message boards.  For example, Yahoo Groups, AOL message boards, MSN message boards and so on.  Take some time to look into all of these opportunities as they are likely to be able to provide you with just what you need.

Purchasing Company Lists

Okay, you may be quite tempted to just purchase a listing of all of the Secret Shopping companies out there.  Yes, this sounds like a great idea and it can be.  But, before you do, make sure that you have exhausted all of the other resources for finding companies that you can. 

Here’s why.

Many companies experience high turnover in their shoppers.  In addition, they can not use the same person time and time again as that will obviously lead those working in the location to know who the Secret Shopper is.  Therefore, they are not hidden, secret companies.  Most of them actively recruit shoppers far and wide.  By joining these message boards, you are likely to learn about all of them quickly and without much of a problem at all.

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