Every mystery shopper would love to find a way to make more money with less time and effort spent working. After all, while you could pick up more assignments to boost your income, this would mean spending more time away from family and friends. Finding a way to boost your income without increasing your work hours would be ideal. How can you accomplish this? Here are three steps that you…
What Mystery Shoppers Need to Know About Social Media Sites
Social media websites like Facebook and Twitter were designed to originally target younger adults. However, today, everyone from young teens through senior citizens make use of these sites. They are a wildly popular way to communicate with your current circle of friends, to maintain relationships with friends who you have grown apart from and to reach out to family who live farther from your hometown. Many mystery shoppers make use…
Should Mystery Shoppers Always Tell the Truth?
s manager likely is aware of what is going on in his life as well. Also, keep in mind that everyone has something going on in their lives, and they are still required to act professionally to customers. While some compassion is OK, there is a minimum threshold that an employee should meet. While you may want to protect the individual, the store’s reputation for serving its customers should also…
3 Factors That May Be Decreasing Your Mystery Shopping Paycheck
Mystery shopping can be more fun and exciting that most other types of jobs, but it is nonetheless a job. Very few mystery shoppers would continue to work as a shopper if they did not need or want the income that it provides. With this in mind, it makes sense that you would want to find ways to boost your income. By identifying some of the most common factors that…
How to Turn a Good Mystery Shopper Report Into a Great Report
You can be an amazing mystery shopper during your site visits, but your efforts will be almost meaningless if you can convert those efforts into an amazing mystery shopping report. You may sail through your site visits with ease, laying low in the stores when necessary but quickly yet casually having conversations with employees when needed. You may remember all of the details of your site visits with ease, and…
Top 3 Things That May Be Holding You Back From Mystery Shopping Greatness
If you have visited the mystery shopping job boards in recent weeks, you may have seen numerous posts from several highly skilled and knowledgeable mystery shoppers. These are mystery shoppers who state they have been mystery shopping for years and earn a decent full-time income as a result. You, on the other hand, may be struggling to find even a single assignment to work on every day, and you may…
Why Mystery Shopping is Important: The Effects of Your Assignments
Some of your friends and family members may have jobs that seem far more important than mystery shopping. Some may be law enforcement professionals, lawyers, accountants and more. The contribution that those working in these and other professions make to society are evident, but the contributions that a mystery shopper makes may be less evident. While your contributions to society as a mystery shopper may be less evident, they are…
Hot Tips for Stress-Free Mystery Shopping Site Visits
Regardless of the industry that you work in, the ideal day at work is one that is enjoyable and stress-free. Mystery shopping is not a job that most outside the industry equate to being riddled with stress, but those who actively work as mystery shoppers often are afflicted with stress and anxiety about certain aspects of their job. If you have been feeling unhappy with your mystery shopping job, you…
Strategies to Maximize The Benefits of Your Mystery Shopping Expense Reimbursement
Many mystery shopping assignments require you to make a required purchase during your site visits. These purchases are typically required so that the sales experience can be reviewed. For example, a grocery store site visit with a required purchase may be in place so that the store can monitor how friendly their staff is, if their cashiers and baggers are asking you about your interest in promotions and special offers…
Easy Ways to Boost Your Mystery Shopper Rating
Your mystery shopping rating is vitally important to your career in this industry. Most mystery shopping providers will start new shoppers out with a neutral rating of 5, but you have the ability to either increase or decrease the rating with each assignment that you complete. With a higher rating, you may have the ability to select higher-paying assignments and will have access to more assignments. When your rating is…