Each of your mystery shopping assignments is essentially a two-part process. Step one involves completing the site visit per the assignment requirements. The second step relates to completing the mystery shopping report. In most cases, the report is submitted online and must be completed within a few hours to a day of completing the site visit. Without completing both of these steps, you will not be paid for your efforts…
Are You Spending Too Much Time on Your Mystery Shopping Reports?
For most mystery shoppers, the fun part of their job is getting out of the house and doing mystery shopping site visits. Site visits may take you to clothing stores to try on some of the hottest fashions, restaurants to enjoy tasty treats, movies to watch a blockbuster and more. After the fun of the site visits is over, however, there is still work to do. With each mystery shopping…
Is Writing Mystery Shopping Reports Slowing You Down?
If you are a mystery shopper, chances are that you have thought your job would go much faster if you just didn’t have to sit down and type out your reports. Mystery shopping assignments generally are a two part process. The two parts include the site visit and writing out the reports. Once the report has been submitted and approved, the processing of your payment will begin. While many mystery…
Are You Making Your Mystery Shopping Reports Too Complicated?
Many mystery shoppers today have the desire to do their best work on their assignments from start to finish. Often, the level of work a mystery shopper does is reflected in their “shopper rating.” This rating may affect your ability to get assignments in the future, including the number of assignments, the quality of assignments, and higher paying assignments, too. If your rating is too low, you may not be…
The Details You Must Include in Your Mystery Shopping Reports.
When you are first getting started as a mystery shopper, the job can seem pretty cut and dry. You perform your site visit, and then you head home to complete your report online. You may think initially that the report is the easiest aspect of the job because you simply have to write the black-and-white responses to the questions based on what you experienced at the site visit. However, some…
Should You Stretch the Truth in Your Mystery Shopping Reports?
With many things in life, there are some gray areas. Mystery shopping is certainly no different, and many times mystery shoppers will be confronted with gray areas that force them to make a decision one way or another when there just isn’t any clear right or wrong. One of the most common times when this will come up is with the reports that are required with each assignment that you…
What Mystery Shoppers Need to Know About Fraud
For many mystery shoppers, writing up the report at the end of a site visit is a real hassle. Yet it is one of the most important aspects of the job because it tells the providers and their clients about your observations during the site visit. This is the information they are paying you for, and so the accuracy of the report is absolutely critical. Now, it is easy for…
Hot Report Writing Tips for Busy Mystery Shoppers
So many mystery shoppers just love their jobs… that is, until it comes time to sit down and write their reports. Few people enjoy writing, and when you are a mystery shopper writing reports for a paycheck, you can feel some intense pressure to really get the details down right and to avoid grammatical and spelling issues. You know if you don’t get the report right, it could cost you….
3 Tips for Fast and Easy Report Writing
Mystery shopping is just like any other job, giving people things to truly love and honestly dislike about their job duties. For most mystery shoppers, the site visits are the best part of the job. Every day and every assignment brings you new experiences and takes you to different locales. Not far behind are the reimbursements you get on your purchases. High on the dislike column, though, is the requirement…
Are You Making These Assumptions in Your Mystery Shopping Reports?
Many mystery shoppers learn very quickly in this unique business that if you want to make the most money possible, you need to cut corners where you can and get assignments done as quickly as possible. The problem, however, comes when those corners you cut end up costing you extra time down the road. One of the biggest areas where mystery shoppers cut corners to save time is in their…