There are some mystery shoppers who want to do just the bare minimum in their assignments to get by. They don’t want to skimp on providing quality details and completing the assignment requirements, but they don’t want to make an effort to become a better mystery shopper either. There are other mystery shoppers, though, who really do want to take their job as a mystery shopper to the next level….
Complete More Assignments In Less Time With These Simple Mystery Shopping Tips
Many mystery shoppers enter the business in large part due to the ability to control their own schedules. Mystery shoppers are able to set their own work hours, working as much or as little as they want. At first glance, your income as a mystery shopper may seem unlimited. However, there are only so many hours in the day to complete assignments, not to mention take care of all of…
How To Handle Being Revealed As A Mystery Shopper
There are a large number of mystery shopping assignments that require you to reveal yourself to the store staff and manager as a mystery shopper during your site visit. However, more assignments require you to keep your identity hidden. In most mystery shopping assignments, you will walk through your entire assignment without revealing your true intentions, objectives, and identity. However, even in these masked assignments, your identity can still become…
Save Your Mystery Shopping Paycheck By Thinking Fast On Your Feet
As a mystery shopper, with each assignment you put yourself into a situation that you simply cannot control. Your job is to follow the assignment requirements and perform your mystery shop as indicated. But there are any number of issues that can (and do!) come up during assignments. Everything from observant store staff to the curiosity of other regular shoppers at the store can throw you for a loop. When…
Making The Most Of Your Travel Time On Mystery Shopping Assignments
For many mystery shoppers, travel time to and from job assignments is downtime. If the required travel time on an assignment is fifteen minutes, twenty minutes or longer, some mystery shoppers simply pass up the assignment altogether. As a mystery shopper, you can make your miles count in a number of ways that can save you both time and money. So before you pass over that next assignment that’s just…
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…
3 Things To Do If Your Cover Is Blown!
The thought of being discovered as a mystery shopper at the job site can make a mystery shopper’s heart race. A small percentage of mystery shoppers will have this unfortunate event happen to them. But if you find yourself in the middle of a potential blown-cover fiasco, there are a few things you need to keep in mind. It’s Merely A Suspicion. An attentive salesperson may pick up on certain…
Top Strategies For Getting A Salesperson’s Name
Mystery shoppers everywhere have always struggled with the assignment requirement of obtaining a salesperson’s name. A name may seem like a simple enough piece of information to obtain. After all, most companies require their employees to wear a name tag. Yet often a salesperson will not be wearing a name tag for any number of reasons. Perhaps they are wearing a name tag, but long hair or a sweater are…
How To Handle Sticky Mystery Shopping Situations
Often, a mystery shopping site visit will be a fairly “textbook” event. You shop around, casually interact with salespeople, and make your purchases. But occasionally mystery shopping assignments turn into more than a mystery shopper bargained for. Perhaps it is due to complicated assignment requirements, or maybe a salesperson is on to you. For whatever reason, these complications are a good reason to stay on your toes while you are…