Many mystery shoppers enjoy their profession because they don’t have a boss or manager constantly peering over their shoulder to make things get done right or to keep tabs on their progress. While this lack of daily contact with those you work for is a blessing much of the time, it can create a headache when you have questions or issues and can’t get the information you need right away….
Getting Fast Answers To Your Reporting Questions
Completing a mystery shopping report is usually an easy task. If you are like most mystery shoppers, you have reviewed the questions before your site visit and can breeze right through the reporting questions. Yet even when you review the questions beforehand, and oftentimes when you don’t, you will run into questions on the report that you need to ask your scheduler about. Since most mystery shoppers look at the…
Hot Tips For Mystery Shoppers To Stay Safe And Healthy During Flu Season
You can’t turn on the TV or stand in line at the grocery store these days without hearing something about the flu. With the seasonal flu kicking into high gear soon and H1N1 flu making its way at lightning speed throughout communities around the world, you simply cannot hide from these and other germs that are waiting to make you sick in the coming months. While you may be tempted…
Should You Take A Holiday Break From Mystery Shopping?
The holidays are a busy time of year. Most people choose to spend a significant amount of time during the holidays either hosting family or friends at home or heading out of town to visit with loved ones. With just a quick glance of your calendar during the busy holiday season, you may think that you have no choice but to take a break from mystery shopping this holiday season….
Making Big Bucks By Picking Up Last Minute Assignments
Mystery shoppers are always looking for ways to make more money. Since the time mystery shoppers have available to work on assignments is limited, making more money inevitably means getting paid more money for assignments. One easy way that some mystery shoppers have found to get paid more money on assignments is to pick up last minute assignments. Many mystery shopping providers are willing to pay a premium to mystery…
Holiday Shopping Tips For Mystery Shoppers
From the retail extravaganza known as Black Friday, which takes place on the day after Thanksgiving, and through closing hours on Christmas Eve, retail stores across the country are bustling with activity. If you are like millions of other shoppers, you have a ton of shopping to do this holiday season. Yet the holiday season is also one of the busiest times of year for your personal life as well,…
Top Ways Your Job As A Mystery Shopper Makes A Difference
Mystery shoppers love to complain about the negative aspects of mystery shopping, such as low pay on many assignments and issues they have had with mystery shopping providers and schedulers. But there are also a few things that keep mystery shoppers coming back to the job boards for more assignments time and again. Sure, mystery shopping gives you a flexible work schedule that you can’t find with many other part-time…
Top Details To Double Check Before You Do The Site Visit
The ability to set your own work hours is one of the features that attracts mystery shoppers to the job. Many mystery shoppers lead very busy lives, and mystery shopping is the perfect fit. Unfortunately, this also means that many mystery shoppers are working mystery shopping assignments into an already busy day. Occasionally, mystery shoppers may find themselves showing up on the site visit without reading through the entire assignment…
The Pros and Cons of Purchase And Return Assignments
Mystery shoppers often feel strongly about the assignments they choose to do – or not do. There are usually very specific reasons a mystery shopper chooses certain assignments over others. One of the assignment types that many mystery mystery shoppers feel passionately about, either for or against, are purchase and return assignments. These assignments require you to make a purchase on a first visit and return to the store at a…
How To Make Easy Money As A Mystery Shopper
One of the biggest complaints mystery shoppers have about the job is that the money just isn’t worth the effort and time involved. Oftentimes, assignments seem to pay close to minimum wage, making it more lucrative to work at another typical part-time job. If you’re stuck in the rut of working assignments in the $5-15 range, and on assignments that take over an hour or two to complete for this…