Sweet Stina’s Blog

A friend of mine, who just so happens to be a stay at home mom had been racking her brain on how to come up with a little cash and have a little bit of entertainment on the side. After she did her research she began mystery shopping on top of taking care of her kids! Sounds like a lot of work, but it has become a very fun game for her and her family.

Now be forewarned, this is something to take serious and realize it’s not easy as pie, because you need to keep accurate track of what you are doing, don’t be sloppy, and even spell check yourself to make sure you are doing what you need to do to make it happen in a timely fashion.

I am thinking this is going to be an on-going blog, so today I am telling you about my experience getting into it or getting started and then later I will get into how to do it.

So my friend was telling me about her desire to do something a little different to make some ends meet. She had logged onto this web site filled with forums about mystery shopping that give you the real story of the ups and downs of mystery shopping. I was intrigued so I asked her to send me the website information.

The next day she sent me the information to my email box and I eagerly opened it up to find this new treasure she had been talking so much about! She had sent me some referral information and then I just sloppily started entering my information around and I rushed through a few things and if you can’t tell I have terrible spelling so I basically disqualified myself from a couple of mystery shop companies within 20 minutes. The sad part is that she had even warned me to be careful and I didn’t. I was sloppy.

So, I lost interest in it for a couple of months and then upon visiting with her brother over one weekend he shared with me the story that his sister had made a heafty profit within her first month of mystery shopping so it is really worth giving it a shot. Now, not only was I intrigued again, but I was jealous and I wanted on that money train and fast!

Unfortunately, it doesn’t always start very fast though as I have learned. It’s a bit slow to start as pay out can take a while depending on the company, and you need to be fairly aggressive and focused on what you are doing.

So, step one to get started set up a free pay-pal account. Step two, set up a free and separate email address that is linked to your pay-pal account. Step three, define your schedule of when you are free to be able to spend approximately an hour per each shop and make up a calendar.

Once you are set up with those first three steps we will talk about where to go from there. Let this sit for a while and later after I complete my first assignment I will do a full blog on how to jump in.