What helped me when I first started out was to get MSPA silver certified. After I did that I got a few more jobs, and then after a couple of months, I got Gold MSPA certified and I had so many shops to do that I was leaving the house at 7 am and not returning until 7 pm. I am just getting back into mystery shopping after 10 years and I am busy. Mainly, just 4 companies keeping me busy. However, I live in an area that I am an hour to an hour and a half away to 5 relatively good size cities and then there is the shops in the boonies that no one else would want. I love doing those, if I can plan a route.