Cash back for Online Shoppers

Hello out there in mystery shopping land! How would you like to earn money when you shop online? If you shop online even infrequently you should be making cash back for it. I don’t mean cash back on your credit card, although that would be something that you might be able to do in addition to what I’m talking about. You can earn cash back by signing up here.

You start off by getting ten bucks into your account right away when you sign up and make a purchase. You have to sign up through this link here in order to get the bonus though. Then, you make cash back every time you purchase something online as long as you sign in to the site and click on the store link. It will take you seriously only like 30 seconds to sign in and click on the link that you want to shop with when you get ready to shop. You can shop at anything from ebay to WalMart to Circuit City. Circuit City should have some great sales since I hear many of their stores, or all of them, I can’t remember, are going out of business. There are hundreds of other stores too. If you shop online you can also often get coupons on top of the cash back. Sometimes the coupons are for free shipping, or $15 dollars off, etc. It beats going to the store and standing in line…Plus the cash back is up to 19% back. That money just rolls over into your account without you even thinking about it. You sign up for paypal and they send you your money.

I am just really excited about it because I just got my money into my pay pal account which is like a total bonus. My subscribers already know all about this and have hopefully taken advantage of the offer already. If not there is no time like the present. When you get your money into your paypal account or if when you get your check in the mail, make sure to drop me a comment. That’s all for now folks.

Free sample updates

Here are some new free samples that I thought you might be interested in. Yay free samples!

1. Free sample of size three Huggies diapers

2. Make your little four legged friend happy! Give your dog free Pedigree Goodbites.

3. Glad bag ziplog bags, free sample here

Get these before they are gone. That’s all I have for now but check back for updates!

Newsletters

Dear readers, have you subscribed to the newsletter yet? If not, this month you are missing out on exclusive subscriber only content. This month subscribers learned tips for maximizing profits. This was the second part of the series. The first newsletter was sent out in September/October and included the first three tips. The November/December newsletter had the next three tips. These are tips that I use to make as much as possible mystery shopping and I know they will be a benefit to you too!

The newsletter for November/December also has information about online mystery shopping. That’s right ONLINE mystery shopping. I came across a site from a reliable source that has online mystery shops. You have to subscribe to the newsletter to find out what the site is.

My newsletter, Mystery Shopper Focus, has ways to earn money by shopping online. There are two sites that I use when I shop online to save money. If you have to shop anyway, why not make some money while you do it? Ready to sign up yet? Click on the subscription link to the right to sign up now for the subscription.

Here’s one more perk of signing up for the newsletter, you get a free shop log to help you stay organized when you sign up for your mystery shopping teacher subscription. Sign up now for your subscription to make sure you get all the tips and gifts that my subscribers get. You don’t want to miss out.

How to earn free prizes by searching the internet

I wanted to get this quick post out about a new site I found that lets you earn prizes by searching the internet. Click here now to get it installed. It is open to only the first 1 million folks who sign up before December 31. If you don’t get in there you’ll miss out. I always look for things that are free and I wanted to pass on the info to my readers. You can earn frequent flyer miles, music downloads, even t-shirts. I think you are allowed to earn points until April of next year and then you are allowed to request your prize. If you usually search for information on the web, you can earn prizes now while doing what you usually do anyway. That’s kind of a theme for me…making cash and prizes for things you normally do anyway! Check this out now before it’s too late.

Free mystery shopping companies list!

Hey there mystery shoppers and potential mystery shoppers. Have you looked into doing mystery shopping yet? Are you still kind of wondering whether it is something you want to do? Well, I want to make it as easy as possible for you. I want to give you a list of companies in a chart to start you off. All you have to do is go to the website and sign up. You probably won’t get a whole lot of work if you only sign up with two or three companies. But if you sign up to a minimum of 15 your chances of getting to choose the jobs you are really interested in and potential to make good money increase. But as we say in the south, I’ll do ya one better. I’ll send you a list of twenty companies all ready for you to sign up to.

Let me tell you why you need to jump on this offer now. I could be charging for this info! A lot of other sites do charge you, like this one here. If you want to pay for that information, then feel free to. You can save money and headaches by getting this list of free, up-to-date companies. I personally checked the links of the companies that I’m not signed up for although many of them I am a shopper for.

This list has links that you can click on to go directly to the site where you sign up to be a shopper for the particular company. As you sign up simply add your username and password to the chart beside the website. Then when you want to look for jobs, all you have to do is open that document and click on the company that you want to look at and you password and user name are READY for you. I really should be charging for this now that I think about it. It is so convenient you just should not pass up the opportunity to get in on this offer. But I can guarantee I won’t have it around forever.

You have to pay money on other sites to get a free list of mystery shopping companies or you can sign up to one of the sites that has a monthly fee. I did a trial of one of those companies- Shadow Shoppers so that I could blog about my experiences. I only found two sites that I didn’t already know about. Literally, I’m not exaggerating. Big whoop… Needless to say, I was not impressed, but maybe that is just one of my things. I don’t think you should have to pay to get a job.

Here’s how you get your hands on a list if you are not interested in subscribing. Pick any one of my blog posts and stumble it. Post a reply on the blog post that you stumbled (or use digg if you like) and send me an email at mysteryshoppingteacher@yahoo.com telling me about the the post that you placed. I’ll email your list back to you in my reply.

If you want to subscribe to my blog then all you have to do put in your email address to the right of this post, pick out your fave post to stumble or digg, and put your link in a comment on the post. When your subscription goes through send me an email, and I’ll send your list.

If you already subscribe to my post, stumble or digg a post, put a comment, and drop me a line via email using the email address you subscribed to my blog with. I’ll send you the goods.

Easy as pie. You can’t get any easier than that. Got questions? Let me know. Three, two, one…do it!

Ten Freebies- Grab em while they last!

If you like free stuff as much as I do, you might want to check out the following sites to make your request while supplies last. I know this blog is mostly about mystery shopping, but whenever I come across goodies like this, I want to share the love with my readers. Get an autofill tool like on the Google toolbar, and fill it in. Then whenever you come across a website that asks for your information, you can click autofill and it fills in the form for you. Couldn’t be easier. Plus, no long surveys to fill out with a credit card- I despise those.

1. There is a free sample of FiberOne cereal. Looks pretty good to me! I know the cereal bars are good as well as the pop tarts.

2. Here is a free sample of head and shoulders shampoo. You have two choices to pick from.

3. Now that cold and flu season is here, try a free sample of Airborne zesty orange.

4. & 5. Who doesn’t like a glass of tea? Well, Sundance wants to send you some. Or, let Yogi send you one of their samples. Better yet, get both!

6. Jump on this one right away while supplies last: a free sample of Original Pho soup. Warm yourself up on a cold day!

7. Al’s pistachios is sending out free pistachio samples- a big 12 oz. sample. Click here to sign up before supplies run out.

8. Get a free tote bag here while supplies last.

9. Free Pond’s clean sweep facial towelettes here.

10. Here is your chance to get a free sample of Aveeno Skin Care.

Enjoy these goodies! I did the research for you and you can reap all the benefits. If I get a favorable response to this, it might become a more regular part of this little blog. Stumble this blog and leave me a comment if you like this!

How to Get Mystery Shopping Jobs Repeatedly

So by now, if you are a regular reader of this blog, you have already compiled a list of companies that you can do mystery shopping jobs for. If you are a new reader you should definitely get started on that.

What is important as a new mystery shopper is getting jobs. You might start off doing any job you can get your hands on at first. As a new mystery shopper, you probably get the jobs that aren’t the best. You’ll probably start with the low paying jobs or the ones that have longer reports. You may even end up doing the shops that have the super long reports just because you don’t realize how long the reports will actually take you.

Let me clue you in on how to get some of the better jobs. You won’t get the great jobs right away, but you can start to make your mark on the company by doing something you have to do anyway. You have to write reports for companies when you do shops so you should make your reports the best that you can. Be super descriptive when it comes to describing employees, the atmosphere, food, service, etc. For example, instead of saying that your hamburger was hot and delicious say, “The hamburger was cooked to perfection. The meat had the coloring of a burger cooked medium well, just as I had ordered. The lettuce was cool and crisp. The tomatoes were perfectly ripe and fresh. The bacon was crispy and sizzling. The temperature was just right as well.” Instead of saying that the fries are good you can say, “The french fries were firm, crispy, and well seasoned.”

I tested out this theory of mine as I was filling out the report for a casual dining shop.
I teach writing so I used some of the tricks that I use as a teacher to help get more opportunities as a shopper. The shop was for a dinner for two including soup, appetizer, drinks, two entrees, and desert- all reimbursed might I add. Even the tip was covered. Anyway, I felt particularly creative that night for some reason. I decided that I would try out my theory of being super descriptive in the reporting section. It probably only took me ten minutes more than it would have taken me otherwise to write a less descriptive report. I have done shops for the company before and I had even filled out this report before in the past, (read more about it here) but was just less descriptive.

What happened to me was that I got a personal email from the scheduler thanking me for the outstandingly written report the very next morning. I got the opportunity to do new shops on my log. I’m not a scheduler or anything but I know that schedulers do not necessarily show ALL available shops to everyone that signs up for their company. From what I have heard, but am unable to verify for myself, you have the opportunity to do more mystery shops if you are certified. It appears that evidently if you do a really good job on your report, the scheduler might think you are worthy of doing more shops too. This is a company that I had been scoping out for months to see what shops were available and then the day after I did a great job on my report all of a sudden there were more opportunities for me. Another thing that happened was I got a 10 on my report for my shopper rating. Finally, I have been getting emails about job opportunities from this company and even phone calls. All of this for just spending time being a little more descriptive.

When you think about it, doesn’t it make sense? If a scheduler has to choose between two people to do a shop, wouldn’t they choose the one that has the best feedback? Companies read the feedback from the mystery shopper and I’m sure they are thrilled to see reports of the shoppers that are thorough and descriptive.

So, what do you think? Does anyone have anything to add about this? Personal experiences that affirm this theory? Leave me some feedback on what you think about this theory of mine.

Alcohol Compliance Shops- Easy Money

If you like to have a beer every now and then, this is good news for you. Check this company out right away. If you do an alcohol compliance shop you can get a beer for free. I did one of these shops and it was very simple to do. The tasks were to check out the bathrooms, food court, pricing, signage, and of course purchase the beer. Not to mention the pay was $20 just for about 10 minutes of my time…shops like that always make me do a little woo hoo in my mind. I mean there is like a big song and dance to go with it and everything. Song 2., Blur, to be exact.

I went into the store which had just opened about two weeks before I stopped in. I walked to the bathroom immediately to check out what that was like. It was in fairly good condition. It didn’t smell terribly awful or anything. So I took a mental note of that and went back out into the store to check the other necessary things.

When I looked at the coolers they were almost empty. I opened the cooler up to look at the beers that were available and most of the drinks were warm. I didn’t know if they had just been put into the cooler or if the cooler just wasn’t working correctly. I noticed that price tags were not in the cooler consistently either. It was kind of haphazardly done. I tried to pick out a beer that I knew my husband would like since I don’t drink any kind of beer at all, I’m more of a super sweet margarita drinker. I can’t drink anything that you can taste the liquor in…anyway, I digress…so I was picking out the drink while trying to spend as little as possible to make sure I came in under budget.

I picked a drink and walked around the store looking at other things on my checklist. I looked at the food court. I looked for signs that said something about the age of alcohol purchase. I looked for the price tags (or lack thereof) of some other items throughout the store. After spending a few minutes looking around, I went to the checkout. I put my beer on the counter to checkout. The cashier asked for my birthday but never asked to see my driver’s license so I could have told her anything really. The cashier said that there was no price on the beer so she couldn’t ring it up. I silently went back to the cooler and put my 1st choice away and picked another. I went to check out once again. She couldn’t remember my birthday and evidently didn’t want to ask me again, so she must have just put in her birthday. The entire time she never asked for my drivers license. I almost left without my receipt because she didn’t give it to me right away.

This is one of those companies that pays you right into your paypal account. If you don’t have a paypal account you should sign up for one immediately. You will have to sign up with a bank account, but it is so convenient to have a paypal account in case you want to buy anything online. Also, a lot of mystery shopping companies pay this way. I’ve received my payment and already invested that money into making money with other shops. If you are interested in getting a beer for free, click here to sign up with this company. Also interesting about this company, if you get your friends to sign up and complete shops you can get paid for that too. I think they have to sign up with your email address as the referrer to do that though. In my opinion this is one of those companies that you shouldn’t dawdle on…go ahead and sign up for. Do it, do it now.

I’m outtie.

Earn $10 NOW

Well, this is not mystery shopping related per se, but it is shopping related so I’m going to say that counts. If you like getting paid to do stuff that you have to do anyway, and if you’re reading this blog than I know you do, you have to sign up for this right now. Do you shop online?If you haven’t done it before you should consider it because it is so easy and convenient to do. There’s this website you can sign up to that will give you cash back for your purchases. I have used it several times and I am about to have a nice little paypal payment for purchases I would have to do anyway. Or, you can elect to have a check sent to you in the mail.

There are thousands of different sites that are available for shopping too: Overstock, Amazon, Wal Mart, etc. You can choose whether you want cash back and you may be able to use online only coupons in conjunction with the cash back. If you are curious and think this might be for you sign up here now. You get $10 now if you sign up through this exclusive link. You’ve lost nothing if you sign up and end up not buying anything online because it is free to sign up and there are no fees whatsoever. You only have until October 31st to get the cash bonus though, so hurry on over and sign up. It really is a no brainer if you shop online anyway. Happy shopping!

Grocery store shops with great pay!

One of my favorite shops that I’ve done to date would probably be the grocery store shop. I found one company that needed a grocery store shop done. I just happened to stumble upon the company and shop and it was a spur of the moment decision to apply for the shop. The shop pay was decent, but it was out of town. It just so happened that I was going out of town for another shop too, so it was worth it to me to get this shop done while I was there anyway.

The point of the shop was to keep a look out for the quality of service, promotional materials, store branding, and cleanliness. I had the task of looking at several different aspects of the store. There was not an amount of time specified for how long I had to be in the store. I was also to make a purchase of at least two items. One of them had to be big enough to fit in the bottom of the grocery cart like bottles of water or dog food, and the other item was to be small. The items were reimbursable.

It is a fairly small town company. I believe it is one that is kind of common to the south, but maybe not so common elsewhere. I went with a checklist of the things I needed to look for, discreetly of course. There was no one else in the store with me so it was really easy for me to do the evaluation discreetly without anyone noticing that I was checking out the ceiling and floor tiles for discoloration. I looked for the promotions of the month and selected my two items. I, of course, had decided on bottled water and cereal bars before I entered the store knowing that I wouldn’t have to come out of pocket because my reimbursement would cover these items.

Everything about the shop went well. The only thing that was not so great was that it was raining when I got out to my car and I had to lug the huge bottles of water out to my car and get soaked. The really awesome thing about this company is that they pay really quickly. I mean, I got my check like two or three weeks later and I was trying to figure out where the check came from because I got it so fast! I highly recommend this company for great, fast payment. This is one company you definitely need to check out.

In my book this company gets five stars for ease of report, great pay, and prompt delivery of payment! This is a great company to start off with if you are a new shopper. Go for it!