Earn Real Money Working For Mystery Shopping Companies

Being mystery shopper offers  an excellent opportunity to earn few hundred dollars by simply testing products and services in various supermarkets hotels restaurants etc.  Companies use the services of  mystery shopping companies to evaluate the skills of their employees, the ease of finding specific products, and the customers level of satisfaction.   As a mystery shopper you will need to buy products or services such as order a pizza, stay at a hotel or have dinner at a restaurant and then fill out a report about your experience, quality of service and your  satisfaction with the shopping there .   Your opinion is then used by the customers of the mystery shopping companies to improve their products and/or services.

What does someone needs to do to start making money as a mystery shopper? 

First of all he needs to join at least one mystery shopping company. However it’s advisable to join as many as possible mystery shopping companies , because this will greatly improve your chances of getting assignments .

This is a list of  best mystery shopping companies you can join:

Ellis PropertyManagement Services – is a company that does apartment shopping. They pay around $40 dollars for the shop.

Mercantile systems and surveys – pays you for dining at fine restaurants. The pay for job is usually around  $60 - $85 per job.

Sinclair service assessment – offers different mystery shoppers opportunities like food and retail.

Cyber Shoppers Online– another good mystery shopping company you should join

Speedmark InformationServices -  offers variety of shops such as grocery and restaurant shop.

Shoppers inc. -  great mystery shopping company you can join. Offers shopping opportunities from many industries.

Quality assessments mystery shoppers – offers shops from various industries health and fitness, banking, retail, food and dining, automotive, call centers.

Bestmark- offers many shopping opportunities from hotel, restaurant, apartments, banks casinos etc.

Intelli-shop – offers opportunities from various industries.

These are only some out of many mystery shopping companies you can join.  You can find more mystery shopping companies  here.

Before you embark on your journey of being a mystery shopper you should be aware here are many scams offering a mystery shopping job for a certain fee.  Legitimate mystery shopping companies will not ask you to pay anything or making promises of  outrageous earnings. Asking for a payment is clear sign of a scam. If you are asked to pay fee to oin a mystery shopping company make sure you stay away.

Make Money Online Completing Tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk

AmazonMechanical Turk or mturk is a crowdsourcing website owned by Amazon which pays it’s workers for completing  tasks. To start making money as a worker on Amazon mturk you will need to sign up which takes only  one minute of your time.  When you sign up you can start doing simple tasks called “HIT” and earn certain amount of money depending on the complexity and then time required to complete the task. The pay you will earn from single task starts from  $0.01  up to many dollars.

What kind of tasks are there on Amazons Mechanical Turk?

 There are hundreds of thousands of task available on mechanical turk at all times.  Some of the most numerous ones are:

1. Transcription tasks – workers get paid by transcription companies or individuals by completing tasks involving transcription of speech,  lectures or interviews.
2. Image classification, mechanical turk workers make money by classifying images according to certain criteria, such as images containing nudity,  images of  violence etc.
3. Completing surveys – make money by answering questions and giving your honest opinion on various matters.
4. Digitalizing handwritten or scanned documents.  Completing tasks on mturk or this kind requires that workers type in a form a scanned document such as business card or typing a scanned hand written paper into a MS Office or OpenOffice digital document.
5. Writing article on a given topic and containing certain keywords.
6. Rewriting sentences or complete articles.

How much money can you make on Amazon Mechanical Turk?

Your Amazon Mechanical Turk earnings depend on many things. There are many types of tasks which require more or less time to complete.  If you wish to earn more you should be completing tasks that pay no less than a dollar and require several minutes to complete. This way you can earn a minimum wage working online on Amazon Mechanical Turk.  To increase your earning's you should  pass  qualification tests. Passing them will make many high paying tasks available to you

What are pros and cons of Amazon Mechanical Turk?

Amazon mturk has is pros and cons. Pros are:

1. Ability to work online at home.
2. Huge number of task available at all times.
3. Anyone can start completing tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk, it’s  completely free to join and no previous experience is required.
4. You can pick the task you want to do. There is no obligation to work on a certain task if you don’t want. You can also return the task you can’t continue working on for some reason

Some of the cons are:

1.  There are many scammers, who don’t pay you after completing the HIT. You should check out forums such as Turker Nation and Mturk Forum to help you stay informed about scammers.
2.  If you live outside USA or India you can not receive payment in your bank account. You can however  use your earning to buy Amazon Gift Card and use it for purchasing things on Amazon.
3. There are tasks that pay little, no more than few cents  per 15 minute work, stay away from them because they are not worth the time and effort.