The Christmas shopping season officially begins just after the leftover Thanksgiving turkey and stuffing is being crammed into the fridge, and has been known to draw out many shoppers in their pajamas and slippers. Like so many other people, you likely have quite a few gifts to buy for your loved ones this holiday season. When you add extra shopping trips into a time filled with holiday parties, family get-togethers,…
Top 3 Things to Double Check Before You Submit Your Report
So many mystery shoppers will breeze through their site visits without any trouble at all only to hit snags and roadblocks when they sit down to type their reports. After a long day of mystery shopping, the last thing you want to do is be stuck trying to figure out what to say in your reports, if you should include certain details, and so forth. You simply want to pound…
Have You Done a Bank Mystery Shopping Assignment Lately?
As a mystery shopper, you know you can find assignments in all types of public places. From restaurants and retail stores to gas stations, movie theaters, health clubs, and so much more. Many assignments leave mystery shoppers feeling flustered and stressed out. Grocery stores, retail stores, and even many restaurants are often just plain crowded, and there is nothing relaxing about wheeling your shopping cart through crowded grocery store aisles…
How Lenient Should You Be With Store Staff?
As mystery shoppers, we are paid to observe and offer unbiased reporting of our observations during a site visit. Yet we are all human, and there are times when we feel compassion for the store staff. Compassion sometimes make it difficult to write an unbiased report about our observations on a site visit. Certainly many reports can be written with that purely “black and white” vision that we are instructed…
How Mystery Shoppers Can Stay Healthy During Cold and Flu Season
The very nature of your job as a mystery shopper has you out and about in the midst of crowds at stores, restaurants, and more during cold and flu season. Many mystery shoppers have found themselves out of commission for days with cold and flu symptoms in previous years, and this means lost income for mystery shoppers. Fortunately, there are a few steps you can take as a mystery shopper…
Work the Assignments Nobody Wants: Make More Money Today!
Every mystery shopper who has spent more than a few weeks scouring job boards for money-making assignments has seen those assignments that everyone just seems to pass up. Perhaps the assignment is for a location a little far away from town. Perhaps the pay is almost laughably low. Perhaps the job itself is boring, burdensome, or otherwise just plain unappealing. There are so many reasons why mystery shopper after mystery…
The Easy Way to Make More Money as a Mystery Shopper
There are a handful of mystery shoppers who get into this business purely to benefit society in general. After all, mystery shoppers do serve the valuable role of helping stores, restaurants, and other businesses to maintain a higher level customer service, to ensure their facilities are clean and organized, and more. However, while mystery shopping may give you a warm and fuzzy feeling with the satisfaction of knowing your efforts…
Steps You Should Take Before Each Site Visit
Many mystery shoppers are looking for a way to get by providing the minimum level of service in a way that doesn’t affect their paycheck or their shopper rating. While this may sound like a lazy person’s solution to earning a paycheck, the fact is that with the low amount of pay on many assignments, most mystery shoppers simply don’t want to put more time and effort into an assignment…
Purchase Return Assignments: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Many mystery shoppers are very specific about the assignments they work and those they refuse to do. Some mystery shoppers feel very strongly about assignments that require you to make a second visit to a location to return merchandise that you bought during the initial site visit. There are some pros and cons to these assignments, so let’s look at what is involved in these assignments and why mystery shoppers…
Why Is Your Mystery Shopper Rating Important?
Every mystery shopping provider has a different way to rate your performance as a mystery shopper on the past assignments you have completed for that company. There are quite a few mystery shopping providers that use a shopper rating system to rate your performance. While the rating system for most of these providers is the same, each provider uses the system in a slightly different way. When you do your…