If you have heard that just about anyone can be a mystery shopper, you are not alone. Many people who consider working in this field decide to get their feet wet and try it out because of the lure and appeal of a job that seemingly requires no special skills and no experience. The fact is that everyone from a recent high school graduate to a retiree can successfully work…
Are Your Mystery Shopping Providers Costing You Money?
When you first started mystery shopping, you may have viewed mystery shopping providers as your ally. Mystery shopping providers are your only source for finding mystery shopping assignments to work on. They act as a conduit between clients and mystery shoppers like you, so working with them is a “must.” However, as time has passed and you have worked more with some of your providers, the thought may have crossed…
Mystery Shopping Secrets: What You Need to Know
Mystery shopping in itself is often a big secret. In fact, if you are like most people, you had only casually heard about mystery shopping before you started working in this line of work yourself. For many people, mystery shopping is almost an urban legend. Many people have heard that you can get paid for “shopping,” but they just didn’t believe it was really possible. However, as a…
Spice Up Mystery Shopping With Hot Seasonal Assignments
There are so many benefits associated with adding the spice of variety to your mystery shopping work day. When you take on different types of mystery shopping assignments on a regular basis, you will benefit from gaining new work experiences, making more money in your job, decreasing the risk of being identified as a mystery shopper and so much more. However, while there are many benefits associate with adding variety…
Mid-Year Organizational Tips for Mystery Shoppers
If you are like most mystery shoppers, you normally use the transitional time around New Year’s Day to take stock of your mystery shopping career and to clean house. The transitional period from one year to the next requires you to separate work-related documents for tax purposes, so this is often a prime time when cleaning and organizing your work area is in order. However, somewhere between January and today,…
Why Mystery Shoppers Need to Expand Their Horizons
Mystery shopping is an exciting job that can be provide you with a wide range of new experiences each and every day. New assignments can take you into unique and different locations, and you may constantly be meeting new people while out and about working on different assignments. That is what mystery shopping could be like, and that type of work environment may have been one of the key reasons…
Mystery Shopper Identity Revealed!: How You Can Prevent It From Happening
Most people have a fear of something. For example, you may be afraid of heights, spiders or tight spaces. If you are a mystery shopper, common fears like these are often combined with one other fear that is related to your job. This fear is related to having your undercover identity as a mystery shopper revealed on the job. What Happens When Your Identity is Revealed As a mystery shopper,…
Why Can’t You Get Those Mystery Shopping Assignments You Really Want?
If you are trying to get some high-paying, premium mystery shopping assignments, you are not alone. After all, if you can spend your days getting paid to lounge around hotel swimming pools and dine at fancy restaurants, why would you instead be selecting assignments at car dealerships and fast food joints? Of course, before you can enjoy the cushy life that comes with working on those premium mystery shopping assignments,…
The Top 3 Misconceptions About Mystery Shopping
Many people have heard some mixed things about mystery shopping. For example, many have heard some wonderful benefits associated with mystery shopping, such as the ability to work as much or little as your want and the ability to get paid to pose as a customer in restaurants, shops and more. These and other benefits of mystery shopping may sound amazing to you, but there may be some things holding…
3 Steps to Your First Mystery Shopping Paycheck
If you have decided to get started working as a mystery shopper but don’t know where to start, you are not alone. Mystery shopping is an amazing job with a ton of benefits. You may have heard from friends and family members who already are mystery shoppers about benefits like a flexible work schedule and the ability to work from home. These are features many people would love to take…