Hello, I have been a mystery shopper since January, and was one for about 6mo in 2006. Currently I am registered with iSecretshopper, Bestmark, Sentry, Market Force, and TNS.

What are your favorate companies that you like best?

Thanks.

Welcome to the forum. If you read the various areas designed for new or newer mystery shoppers, you will pick up a lot of helpful advice on building your mystery shopping business.

In answer to your first question, this thread sums it up.

[www.mysteryshopforum.com]

Consumer impressions not bad at all,pay 8-12$

These are good companies for getting started: Market Force, Corporate Research, Maritz, Bare. Keeping adding a few every week. You can't have too many companies. Corporate Research (Cori) will post jobs on the first of the month at base fees, and will increase the fees throughout the month until the shops are picked up. There's a comprehensive list at the bottom of this page. Any company may or may not have shops in your area. To find out which companies actually have jobs somewhere, you can look in the Mystery Shopping Companies section of this forum and see which companies people are talking about on the forum. Don't be concerned about negative comments unless the comments are that the company is not paying multiple shoppers. Someone will always be complaining about not being paid because a shop went wrong - that's just the breaks. What you have to be careful about is a company not paying at all. You can check the Job Board on this forum to see who is posting in certain areas. Also, Jobslinger has a free board you can access on line and see what's been posted. Most jobs on the Job Board or Jobslinger will be gone by the time you see them, but you will get ideas on who is working where. Keep signing up. Don't be concerned if the companies don't have work in your area. That changes all the time.

Gfk

emily. You need to add a signature line to let folks know you work for GFK...

It's tacky to plug a company without disclosing that you are employed by them rather than a mystery shopper. It's customary for MSC reps to identify themselves as such with a signature line.

Emily, here's how to add a signature line.
1. Click on your name in one of your posts.
2. Click control center at the top.
3. Click edit signature. Type in your signature as you would like it to be.

She did. All is well...

Yes, I know. She didn't know how to do it until I posted and also sent her a PM. It would be a good idea when suggesting that people add a sig line to let them know how to do it. Often new posters aren't aware of how to do everything they would like to do on the forum and will appreciate some help.

Thank you for the help! Sorry guys! I was not trying to break any rules, just did not know how to add sig, so thanks for letting me know. Again, Sorry!

well done Emily!