Many people start their mystery shopping career off with high hopes and aspirations. If you are like most mystery shoppers, you first started out your career believing the job would allow you to earn a fabulous income with relatively little effort required. You dreamed of earning big paychecks, getting tons of free merchandise, and spending leisurely time shopping in all of your favorite stores. With time, however, you get more…
Do You Need a Fill-In For Your Mystery Shopping Assignments?
In an ideal world, every mystery shopper would be able to pick and choose assignments on job boards and would then be able to complete those assignments as scheduled. However, regardless of whether you pick assignments a week ahead of time, a day ahead of time, or even just a few hours ahead of time, you may find that life sometimes just has different things in mind for you. Sometimes…
What You Need to Know About Mystery Shopper Ratings
Mystery shoppers spend a lot of time and effort focusing on their mystery shopper ratings that providers issue. While not every provider has a rating system, many of them do. These ratings are a source of stress and anxiety for mystery shoppers, and any minor adjustment downward is enough to unsettle many people who work in this field and put their best effort out on each and every assignment. So…
How Mystery Shoppers Contribute to Society
Many mystery shoppers stumble into the job in their efforts to find a money-making job that they can do out of their home. Some are looking for part-time work, and others are working for full-time work with flexible hours. Either way, most are indeed working in the field for the income, but that doesn’t mean they don’t want to work in a way that contributes positively to society in some…
How Far Will You Go For a Mystery Shopping Paycheck?
Some mystery shoppers are working in this field as a means to stay busy in retirement or to get out of the house and do something productive when there is nothing better to do. For most mystery shoppers, however, this is source of income that the mystery shopper is dependent on, and so some mystery shoppers really need to pull out all of the stops when it comes to earn…
Are You the “Perfect” Mystery Shopper?
If you are new to mystery shopping, you may be wondering just what the “perfect” mystery shopper looks like. Some people think that there is an image that mystery shopping providers are looking for in their mystery shoppers, and others think that a mystery shopper should have some ideal set of qualities or traits to be good at the job. You may be wondering how you stack up and if…
Which Mystery Shopping Assignments Are Costing You Money
With some jobs, you can sit at a desk all day long and really get paid the same amount regardless of how productive you are during the day. As a mystery shopper, the amount of money you earn, and more importantly your net income from each assignment, can vary due to a number of different factors. The truth of the matter is that some assignments can be highly lucrative and…
Are You Picking Bad Mystery Shopping Assignments?
If you know other mystery shoppers personally and talk to them about their experiences on the job, or if you visit the mystery shopping online forums to hear what others are experiencing in the field, you may hear some pretty mixed results. Some mystery shoppers absolutely love their job and couldn’t be more pleased with how exciting and unique it is while others are ready to throw in the towel…
What Are Your Mystery Shopping Assignments Really Worth to You?
If you spend any time on the mystery shopping online forums, you know that mystery shoppers love to complain about the low pay on some assignments. It is true that some compensation is so low that it really is a slap in the face to mystery shoppers. However, there are plenty of great assignments that do pay a fair wage. As a mystery shopper, it is up to you to…
Add Some Zest to Your Mystery Shopping With These Exciting Assignments
Mystery shoppers are largely a group a really busy people. The ability to set your own hours and control your schedule attracts busy people looking to make some extra money around their other commitments in life. While it’s great that you can earn extra cash on the side from picking up various assignments, when you do this, you inevitably make yourself even busier than you already are. The result is…