Mystery shoppers everywhere can use mystery shopping to keep their cars looking and running great. When you sign up to do some of the many auto-related mystery shopping assignments, you can earn money and get reimbursed for some or all of the repairs, services, and maintenance tasks you need to keep your car in tip-top shape! Save Big Bucks On Oil Changes. In many parts of the country, oil change…
Use Mystery Shopping To Create A Great Summer For Your Family
Whether you are a stay at home parent, a grandparent, or an aunt or uncle, you have kids in your family who are out of school for the summer. There is plenty to do to keep the kids busy this summer, but if you’re not careful you can spend an arm and a leg trying to entertain the little crew. One of the great things about mystery shopping is that…
What New Mystery Shoppers Can Expect For A Paycheck
Many mystery shoppers get into mystery shopping for a number of reasons. Among those reasons are a flexible schedule and the thrill of doing something covert. Plus there are the perks of getting to keep most of what you buy while you’re “working.” Mystery shoppers often are pulled into this job with the hopes of making great side money, or maybe even quitting their regular job to be a full…
How To Take Your Mystery Shopping Business To The Next Level
Many mystery shoppers get into the business with the dream of making big bucks. Once mystery shoppers have completed a few mystery shopping assignments, it soon becomes apparent that that dream of a big paycheck will be much harder to earn than they had originally thought. If you want to take your mystery shopping business to the next level and see more results from your efforts, here’s what you need…
How To Keep The Excitement In Your Mystery Shopping Gig
People choose to be mystery shoppers for a variety of reasons, and high among those reasons is the excitement of working at a new job site and having the thrill of working undercover. Yet after awhile, you may find yourself working the same batch of assignments, rotating the same assignments out every couple of months. You may get bored at a job without co-workers. And answering the same type of…
What’s Your Bottom Line As A Mystery Shopper?
Whether you’re a new mystery shopper or you’ve been mystery shopping for years, we all want to pick and choose the assignments that make the most money. It can be tempting to look simply at the face value of an assignment and think a $5 or $10 assignment is just that. However, when you are a self-employed mystery shopper, there is much more that goes into your bottom line calculation…
Tips For Deciphering Confusing Report Questions
The key to making a lot of money as a mystery shopper is speed. The faster you can complete assignments, the more money you can make. But mystery shoppers often get slowed down by confusing or misleading report questions. You may need to pause and consider what the question is actually asking rather than fly right through the report. Add to that the fact that answering a question incorrectly can…
How To Mystery Shop with Kids This Summer
With the final school bell of the school year fast approaching, many mystery shoppers will find themselves having to combine their role as a mystery shopper with parenting duties. While many people often find shopping with kids to be a chore requiring patience and, mystery shopping with kids requires even more attention to detail as you keep an eye on the little ones while performing the task at hand. The…
How To Get The Assignments You Want
When you first signed up as a mystery shopper, you had a vision in your head of what mystery shopping would be like. That vision probably had nothing to do with sitting in a fitting room of a clothing store pretending to try on clothes that you could care less about. Instead, you may have had big plans for mystery shopping at your favorite restaurant. Or maybe even bigger plans…
Easy Ways For The Busy Mystery Shopper To Stay Organized
For mystery shoppers who complete just a handful of assignments each month, it’s not too difficult to stay on top of the paperwork involved in mystery shopping and stay organized. But for mystery shoppers who complete several assignments per day or even per week, the paperwork can quickly become overwhelming. Consider the many pages of assignment requirements, a printout of the driving direction to the job site, the questionnaire or…