Mystery shoppers love getting paid. There’s no denying how great it feels to get emails from PayPal saying you have received funds from a provider, or opening up your mailbox to find several checks waiting for you. Unfortunately, some mystery shopping providers are just plain slow in paying for your hard work and valuable time. In same cases, payment for completed assignments exceeds slow and borders on ridiculous. If you…
Is Mystery Shopping the Right Job For You?
Mystery shopping is without a doubt one of the most fun jobs you can do without any experience required. Consider other jobs that don’t require experience, such as working in a retail store or maybe working in a restaurant, and you can see that mystery shopping is a fun alternative. For people who need to make some extra cash or even those looking for a full-time job, mystery shopping is…
Add Some Summer Sizzle To Your Mystery Shopping Job
Throughout much of the year, you may find that you are in auto-pilot mode with your mystery shopping assignments. You go through the job boards regularly without giving too much thought to which assignments you select. Generally, you choose the same types of assignments and work within the same general part of your city. And with this routine comes monotony and event boredom. But this summer you can add some…
Strategies For Getting the Assignments You Really Want
If we’re being honest, we can admit that very few (if any) mystery shoppers truly enjoy doing price audits at the office supply store. Sure, it’s fairly easy money and you can set your own hours more or less. You can work as much or as little as you want, and don’t really have a grumpy boss hovering over your shoulder criticizing your hard work. But that being taken into…
Hot Tips To Save Your Hide During Site Visits
Mystery shopping is a fun job in part because there is always some new aspect of the job to enjoy. Assignment requirements between various jobs are fairly similar in many cases, but with new job site locations and new people to interact with at each location, mystery shopping is anything but dull. Most mystery shoppers will agree that this is an exciting job, but at times it can even get…
Maximize Your Income By Finding The Right Mystery Shopping Providers To Work For
At one time or another, every mystery shopper has wondered how many mystery shopping providers they should sign up to work for. What’s the magic number that will give you the most amount of money in the long run? The fact of the matter is that you can sign up for a dozen providers and not find many jobs at all. But on the other hand, you may find that…
Summertime Organizational Tips For Mystery Shoppers
Even the most organized of mystery shoppers can fall behind on organizational tasks, and the summer months are a perfect time to re-organize your work area to prepare for a profitable second half of the year. During your busy days and weeks of mystery shopping, you may find that you drop your mystery shopping paperwork here and there, and over time this can result in quite a messy work area….
How Mystery Shoppers Can Put Travel Time To Good Use
As a mystery shopper, if you consider your time traveling between assignments as downtime, you are missing out. Most mystery shoppers will spend between fifteen to thirty minutes on round-trip travel for one assignment, and if you are doing many assignments during a day and not profiting from your travel time, you are losing money. And if you are passing up on assignments that you may consider a little too…
Hot Tips To Avoid Being Revealed As A Mystery Shopper
Mystery shoppers often find themselves in situations that they cannot control. As a mystery shopper, your job is to fulfill your assignment requirements during the site visit and make unbiased observations. Yet when performing even the simplest of mystery shopping assignments, mystery shoppers can find themselves in hot water during their assignments. Anything can happen on a site visit, from other would-be customers like you finding your behavior suspicious to…
Legitimate Mystery Shopping Assignments
If you are new to mystery shopping, one of the most difficult tasks you probably face is finding mystery shopping assignments. It can be very time-consuming and even frustrating to find mystery shopping assignments when you don’t know where to look. Add that to the fact there are a great deal of scam artists out there who are preying on unsuspecting mystery shoppers, and you are in for quite a…