If you are like most mystery shoppers, you normally use the transitional time around New Year’s Day to take stock of your mystery shopping career and to clean house. The transitional period from one year to the next requires you to separate work-related documents for tax purposes, so this is often a prime time when cleaning and organizing your work area is in order. However, somewhere between January and today,…
How Mystery Shoppers can Stay Organized Through the Busy Summer Months
The summer months are a busy time for mystery shoppers. The job boards are usually loaded with assignments that are just waiting for you to snatch them up. Plus, some mystery shoppers take a break for part or all of the summer to travel, spend time with family, and more, which gives those mystery shoppers who do want to work throughout the summer months plenty of opportunities to do so….
Hot Tips for Faster, Easier Mystery Shopping Report Writing
Most mystery shoppers will agree that mystery shopping is a pretty great job. We get paid to go into stores, restaurants, and more, enjoy reimbursements on purchases, and get our opinions on service, cleanliness, and more heard by higher-ups in the company who value what we have to say. Yet as great as mystery shopping is, there is one aspect of mystery shopping that many people struggle with. That aspect…
Summertime Organizational Tips For Mystery Shoppers
Even the most organized of mystery shoppers can fall behind on organizational tasks, and the summer months are a perfect time to re-organize your work area to prepare for a profitable second half of the year. During your busy days and weeks of mystery shopping, you may find that you drop your mystery shopping paperwork here and there, and over time this can result in quite a messy work area….
Save Time and Make More Money Mystery Shopping With These Hot Organization Tips
One of the many benefits of mystery shopping is that it is the perfect job for busy people. Everyone from stay-at-home moms to students to people with full-time jobs looking to make some extra cash on the side can benefit from the flexible hours mystery shopping provides. Yet with mystery shopping attracting such busy people to the job, it’s no surprise that many mystery shoppers are in need of some…
Clear the Clutter: Quick Spring Cleaning Tips For The Busy Mystery Shopper
With the freshness of new flower buds and spring greenery brightening up the outdoors, now is the perfect time to take a look around your home office with a fresh eye. During the long, gray days of winter, it’s easy to let your mystery shopping paperwork get piled sky-high on your desk. But now that spring is here, it is the perfect time to clear away the clutter that winter…
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…
Hot Scheduling Tips For Busy Mystery Shoppers
In a job where time is money, one of the most important qualities a profitable and successful mystery shopper needs is time management. That’s not to say that the ability to write effectively and concisely on your reports, to pay attention to details on the site visit, and other qualities are not also important. However, if you are truly going to be able to make serious bucks as a mystery…
3 Things Every Mystery Shopper Should Do Before A Site Visit
Whether you’ve been mystery shopping for just a few months or for many years, you may find that you’ve fallen into a comfortable routine with your mystery shopping assignments. If you are very new to mystery shopping, you may not yet have established a routine. Whether new or seasoned, there are some things every mystery shopper can and should do before a site visit to ensure you are well-prepared. Following…
How Many Assignments Should You Take On For A Single Day?
Many mystery shoppers are trying to squeeze in as many assignments as possible to earn more money in this tight economy. While some mystery shoppers have trouble finding even two or three assignments to do during a day in their corner of the world, other mystery shoppers are able to locate ten or more assignments each day. If you are one of the lucky mystery shoppers who CAN get your…