There is no denying that the holidays are an expensive time of year. It all starts with that huge grocery bill you get around Thanksgiving, and it seems that the cost of various expenses just keep adding up clear through New Years. There are costs for presents, home décor, traveling, extra food for hosting get-togethers, and so much more! As a mystery shopper, you definitely want to do what you…
How Mystery Shoppers Can Make the Holidays More Affordable
It sure is hard to believe that the holidays are right around the corner, but that magical time of year that so many love has crept up on us once again. The holidays are indeed a magical time where the landscapes turn into a beautiful winter wonderland, and when friends and family come together to enjoy making wonderful new memories together. While this is one of the happiest times of…
Getting the Most Out of Your ‘Required Purchase’ as a Mystery Shopper
Many mystery shoppers, new and seasoned alike, balk at the ‘required purchase’ requirement. There are several common complaints that mystery shoppers have about such requirements. Some say that the reimbursement for such purchases almost never covers the actual cost of the item they purchased, often even when buying the cheapest thing in the store. Others say that they are buying items they never intended to purchase in the first place,…
How to Prepare for Mystery Shopping Site Visits
Many seasoned mystery shoppers just seem to breeze right through their site visits without any issues at all. If you compare some of their comments on online mystery shopping forums against those comments from new or inexperienced mystery shoppers, you will find that the more seasoned professionals often have less issues with their site visits or reports and they complete their assignments far more quickly, too. You may think that…
What You Need to Know About Mystery Shopper Ratings
Mystery shoppers spend a lot of time and effort focusing on their mystery shopper ratings that providers issue. While not every provider has a rating system, many of them do. These ratings are a source of stress and anxiety for mystery shoppers, and any minor adjustment downward is enough to unsettle many people who work in this field and put their best effort out on each and every assignment. So…
How Mystery Shoppers Contribute to Society
Many mystery shoppers stumble into the job in their efforts to find a money-making job that they can do out of their home. Some are looking for part-time work, and others are working for full-time work with flexible hours. Either way, most are indeed working in the field for the income, but that doesn’t mean they don’t want to work in a way that contributes positively to society in some…
Getting Started Mystery Shopping: How to Find Jobs
So many people today are looking for a way to earn some extra money. For some, they want a regular full-time or part-time job, and for others they simply want to find a way to pick a few extra bucks from time to time when personal expenses start mounting up. Whatever your motivations are, mystery shopping is an excellent job that most people are qualified for, and what’s best is…
The Fast Way to Your First Mystery Shopping Paycheck
If you are interested in becoming a mystery shopper, you may be curious about just how quickly you can get started in this line of work and how long it will take you to get your first paycheck. The fact is that just about anyone can be a mystery shopper. The job simply takes your willingness to visit certain select site locations, perform certain requirements that generally involve interacting with…
How Far Will You Go For a Mystery Shopping Paycheck?
Some mystery shoppers are working in this field as a means to stay busy in retirement or to get out of the house and do something productive when there is nothing better to do. For most mystery shoppers, however, this is source of income that the mystery shopper is dependent on, and so some mystery shoppers really need to pull out all of the stops when it comes to earn…
Stop a Scam in Process: What Mystery Shoppers Need to Look For
It’s not a big surprise for mystery shoppers to hear that scam artists are constantly trying to interfere with our daily work and rob us of our time and money through their plots and scams. The fact is that because mystery shoppers work remotely, we are indeed very prone to becoming targets for various online scams. Yet if you keep your eyes open and know what to look for, you…