The days are longer, sunnier and warmer. People are making summer travel plans, flowers are blooming, and people are enjoying spend time outdoors with friends and family. These are all sure signs that summer is once again upon us. As a mystery shopper, you no doubt are loving every minute of your job during this time of year. You no longer have to contend with frosty, icy weather while out…
How Long Does It Take to Get Your Mystery Shopping Paycheck?
One of the brightest spots of any mystery shopper’s day is when he or she gets paid for assignments. Mystery shopping may seem like a fun job, and it largely is. However, mystery shoppers do work hard for their money, and they love seeing the financial rewards for the time and effort spent working on assignments. Unfortunately, one of the biggest complaints that mystery shoppers share about their job is…
Fun Spring Mystery Shopping Assignments to Brighten Your Day
The spring months may be known for warm, brilliantly sunny days and gorgeous spring flowers. In most parts of the country, though, there are plenty of miserable, dreary, and even downright cold days mixed in between the beautiful days. Those dreary days can really bring you down, but there are a few fun mystery shopping assignments you can pick up to brighten even the gloomiest of days. Lunch With a…
How Much Is Your Time Worth As a Mystery Shopper?
Mystery shoppers may have one of the best jobs in the world. As a mystery shopper, you can set your own work hours, get paid to walk through stores and eat at restaurants, and you can even bring your kids or spouse to work with you if you want. As great as the job is, however, many mystery shoppers share the same complaint about the job. That complaint is the…
How to Improve Your Mystery Shopping Skills
At first glance, mystery shopping doesn’t appear to be a job that requires considerable skills. When you apply to work as a mystery shopper, some providers simply want to gather basic details such as your gender and age before allowing you to work for them. Others may have a short writing test that most people can easily pass. Because of this, almost anyone who wants to be a mystery shopper…
Who Gets Those Higher Paying Mystery Shopping Assignments?
Often when mystery shoppers initially sign up to work with their first mystery shopping provider, they have grand dreams about working on exciting assignments at luxury resorts, fine dining restaurants, and more. Once you visited the job boards a few times, however, you realized that those assignments were truly few and far between. More than that, you may have seen posts on mystery shopping forums where other mystery shoppers have…
Make More Money by Being a Smarter Mystery Shopper
Mystery shopping is a job well-suited for so many people. Whether you want to work an hour or two per week or have the need to work forty or more hours a week, you can generally find the work you need to satisfy your time availability and income requirements. Further, this job requires little skills and no training, so almost anyone can sign up to be a mystery shopper and…
Making More Money as a Mystery Shopper Without Working More
Some mystery shoppers work full-time hours on mystery shopping assignments while others use their mystery shopping assignments as a source of part-time income. Regardless of the number of hours a mystery shopper is able to devote to the job, however, most mystery shoppers want to find a way to earn more money for their efforts. So how can you earn more money as a mystery shopper without working more? Improve…
When Mystery Shopping is a Drag: Spicing Up Your Workday
When you first started mystery shopping, the last thing you likely thought your new job would be is boring. Other jobs require you to sit at a desk all day or stand behind a counter, but mystery shopping allows you to spend your day shopping, dining, and more all while earning money. Your assignments take you to different locations, and there are also new sights to see and new people…
How to Find the Best Mystery Shopping Providers to Work With
So many of the complaints that mystery shoppers have about their job stem from the providers who they are working for. Mystery shoppers commonly complain about not being paid fast enough as well as simply not being paid enough on each assignment for the time and effort involved. Some complain that their mystery shopping providers are rude to them, or sometimes they ask them to make unethical changes to their…