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June 27, 2014 03:07AM
I have applied to several Mystery Shopping companies only to find they have little work in the Dayton, Ohio area. How can I know which shops on this huge list have jobs there specifically???? Help ! (It has taken me hours to apply to these first five.)
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June 27, 2014 03:50AM
I be the first to help hopefully not the last. Jobslinger.com throw in your zip code and apply to those companies who have jobs that your not signed up with. You can also try volition.com and msjobboard.com. Sign up with kernscheduling. Try Monterey Mystery shopping. And coast to coast scheduling. This should get you started.

Shopping Western NY, Northeast and Central PA, and parts of Ohio and West Virginia. Have car will travel anywhere if the monies right.
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June 27, 2014 12:10PM
The job boards are your best bet but keep checking the ones you signed for also. It is the end of the month and the jobs/clients have mostly been shopped for the month so they may not show up on the boards.

Also, sign for lots of companies. There is a list at the bottom of this forum with an number of great companies to sign with. Block out some time each week and sign for as many as you can. Soon you will have a nice list of MSC to choose from.

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June 27, 2014 12:23PM
Hi, Beverly, welcome to the forum. It can be daunting to apply with a long list of companies, but push forward to do it. It's the best investment you can make in your new mystery shopping business.

The sign up process will get easier as you get more comfortable with it. As far as time spent, signing up with most companies takes a few minutes rather than hours, so out must have started with the hardest ones. Try a few others. One way to simplfy is to save your writing sample in Word.

And, yes, near the end of the month, very litle is posted, so the five you signed up with may have jobs in your area. Best luck and happy shopping.
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June 28, 2014 02:34AM
WOW thanks for all the great answers!
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June 30, 2014 04:53PM
Also, sign up for Market Force, Maritz and Bestmark. They are all large companies so have shops nationwide. Expert Solutions (formerly CORI) is good too but they have been going down in shops lately and their website is quirky sometimes so could frustrate a new shopper.

Shopping across Indiana but mostly around Indianapolis.
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June 30, 2014 06:31PM
Thank you.... I signed up for the first three; but the last one I could not find on my MSPA list so I did not sign up.
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July 01, 2014 12:18AM
Look at the list at the bottom of this page rather than relying on the MSPA list. Not every company that is a member of the MSPA pays according to terms and not every reliable company is a member of the MSPA. MSPA stands for Mystery Shop Providers Association. In other words it is a trade organization developed for the benefit of the mystery shopping companies, not mystery shoppers.

The last company is on our list at the bottom. They were Corporate Research International for years. Several years ago they were purchased by Stericycle and eventually rebranded as Stericycle Expert Solutions.

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July 01, 2014 01:27AM
I would also suggest enabling your auto-fill option on your computer to speed up the application process. I agree that checking Jobslinger is a good way to find the companies in your area and start with those. The actual jobs listed may or may not be open but you will have a list of companies to sign up with. Cross check with the posts here to see if the companies are good--but take some of the comments with a grain of salt grinning smiley.

When I first started, I set aside one day/week to just find companies and sign up. It gets a bit tedious but it has to be done. Start with a goal of 20 companies by the end of next week and then go to 40 companies, etc. Most people here are signed up with 70+ companies and some have shops in your area and some do not.
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