Hi, jalbrown, welcome to the forum. There's plenty of good information available here. There are some very experienced shoppers who have been very generous with their experience and information. I love this forum and have learned a lot. Look over the New Mystery Shoppers "sticky" posts and you will get a good basis for how to do everything. To apply for mystery shopping jobs, you need to go to the website of the different mystery shopping companies and put in an application. Then you will be able to search their job boards and apply for jobs in your area. Read everything you can on this site and it will give you an idea of how it works. There is a list of mystery shopping companies here also. I suggest you apply with as many as you can because not all of them will be offering jobs in your area.