At the start of each new year, many people around the globe spend a few minutes reflecting back on the year that has gone by. Now that New Years’ Day has come and gone, you may be one of the many mystery shoppers who has resolved to improve your financial situation in the coming year. While reducing your personal spending may help you to achieve this goal, you may also…
Goal-Setting Tips for Mystery Shoppers for the New Year
The New Year is a time to reflect back on the past and to think about the future. Many people take the opportunity that the New Year provides to think about ways that they can improve upon their past experiences to enjoy a better tomorrow. As a mystery shopper, you may be taking time today to set goals for yourself in the coming year. There are a number of common…
Is The Grass Greener?: When to Look For New Mystery Shopping Providers
The mystery shopping providers that you work with play a major role in your overall work experience. After all, variations in their friendly and helpful service, their criteria for accepting your reports, their rate of pay and the difficult of their assignment requirements are common. One provider may rate low in each of these areas, and another may rate high in each of these areas. Most, however, will find…
3 Reporting Errors Every Mystery Shopper Should Avoid
If you are like most mystery shoppers, your favorite part of the job is heading out of the house and working on site visits. At the site visit, you can shop at your leisure while also fulfilling secret objectives outlined in the assignment requirements. While the site visits can be fun and even exciting at times, many mystery shoppers dread the final stage of their assignment. Writing reports may be…
Can Social Media Sites Benefit Mystery Shoppers?
Love them or hate them, social media sites are wildly popular with many people. Individuals use sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and others for personal as well as professional reasons. They connect with other individuals who are friends, family members and co-workers. They also connect with organizations and businesses. You may be wondering how social media sites may benefit you as a mystery shopper. Here are a few key benefits…
From Part-Time to Full-Time Mystery Shopping: Tips for a Smooth Transition
Many people who discover mystery shopping do so while searching for a part-time job that they can work on from home. There are many part-time jobs available for you to work on, but mystery shopping is one of the rare few jobs that you can do from home while still retaining complete control over your work hours. In fact, you can take several weeks off of work, then load up…
How to Earn a Full-Time Living As a Mystery Shopper
If you are like many other mystery shoppers, you stumbled upon this job while looking for part-time work or a job that you can do from home. Mystery shopping is a job that meets both of those criteria, and it does not require any experience or special skills. Many people find it to be a fun, enjoyable job, and if you are included in that group, you may be wondering…
3 Things Every Mystery Shopper Should Know Before Writing Reports
Each of your mystery shopping assignments is essentially a two-part process. Step one involves completing the site visit per the assignment requirements. The second step relates to completing the mystery shopping report. In most cases, the report is submitted online and must be completed within a few hours to a day of completing the site visit. Without completing both of these steps, you will not be paid for your efforts…
The Best Things You Can Learn From a Mystery Shopping Forum
When you work as a mystery shopper, you have very limited options for reaching out and communicating with other mystery shoppers. Unless several of your close friends and family members are also mystery shoppers, you may not actually speak to any others who are in this line of work at all. However, you can quickly connect with others in the industry through an online mystery shopping forum. This is a…
The Challenges of Mystery Shopping in the Winter – And What You Can Do About Them
Mystery shopping is a great job most of the year. It takes you out of the house to different places with each assignment, and it allows you to pick and choose your assignments. However, as great as the job is most of the time, these same factors that make the job so amazing much of the year inevitably are some of the very factors that can be challenges for…