When it comes to reaching out and communicating with other mystery shoppers in your local community, across your state or even farther beyond, your opportunities for doing so are fairly limited. Some organizations and companies host annual or semi-annual events that bring mystery shoppers together. These may be courses, business fairs or something else similar. However, these typically are not located close to a mystery shopper’s home, and many people…
Why Every Mystery Shopper Needs to Join the Online Community
The world we live in today is becoming more digitized and remote with each passing day. Many years ago, mystery shopping was a far different world without online job boards and manual submission of reports. Communication with providers was often conducted with the phone, the fax machine, and even snail mail. Today, it is not uncommon for a mystery shopper to work on dozens of different assignments without any communication…
Mystery Shopping Forums: Why You Need to Visit Them Regularly
Mystery shopping is a job unlike any other. You need very little in the way of training, experience, or even skills to get started. Every day on the job brings new and exciting experiences in different locations, so you will never get bored earning your paychecks. They also give you the ability to work “undercover,” which adds some thrill to your already amazing job. However, what you are missing when…
Why You Need to Take Notes About Mystery Shopping Providers
It’s hard to get a group of mystery shoppers in a room together, but if you visit online forums, you can often catch some interesting and often very useful chatter. When mystery shoppers get together, even in a virtual environment like a forum, the topics of conversation inevitably focus on their recent assignments and their providers. Some have wonderful things to say about their time on the job, and others…
Online Forums: Why Every Mystery Shopper Needs to Visit Them Regularly
We live in a very digital world today, and that is good news for mystery shoppers! Sure, you need access to some high speed technology to sign up for assignments, submit your reports, and so forth. You may use some high tech gear on your site visits, too, such as digital cameras, video cameras, audio recording devices, and more. Some mystery shoppers take notes incognito on their handheld devices and…
Why You Need to Join an Online Mystery Shoppers Forum
More and more people are discovering how they can stay connected to friends and family through social media websites like Twitter and Facebook, and the fact is that there are also websites that allow you to network with your mystery shopping peers and colleagues, too. Mystery shopping has traditionally been a fairly isolated type of job, where you work on your own typically with your identity concealed. You may do…
What Can You Learn From Online Mystery Shopping Forums?
Mystery shopping can feel like an incredibly isolated job. In other jobs, you can talk with co-workers about on-the-job challenges and grievances. You can talk to workers at competing companies about benefits and pay to see if it’s time to jump ship and switch companies. You can gain new insight into you industry, job tips, and so much more. As a mystery shopper, however, you have little means to talk…
How to Get the Most Out of Mystery Shopping Forums
If you have ever found yourself muddling through a sticky situation as a mystery shopper on your own and trying to figure your problem out on your own, the fact is that it didn’t have to be that way. If you have ever wished that you had someone to turn to for guidance, you actually did have hundreds of people that were willing to offer advice. Mystery shopping forums are…
The Many Benefits Of Joining A Mystery Shopping Forum Online
Mystery shopping has been benefits, such as being able to choose your schedule and work hours, pick and choose which companies you want to work with, and more. Yet with the many benefits mystery shopping offers, it offers one fairly big drawback. This job can be very isolating, putting you in a world where your main, work-related interactions are between a scheduler who you never meet and typically will not…
What’s The Big Deal About Online Mystery Shopping Communities?
The internet is teeming with online communities, and the media is abuzz with talk about social networking communities like Facebook and Twitter. Joining these general social networking sites for many has proven to be a great way for busy people to keep up with their friends and family, near and far, as well as to re-establish relationships with old friends. In the mystery shopping world, online communities open up a…