Each day that you are caught in a vicious Q&A session with your scheduler about your report is another day you aren’t getting paid for your time and efforts on a mystery shopping assignment. For mystery shoppers who want to get paid faster (and who doesn’t?), the trick lies in getting your report accurate and complete on the first go-round. Here are some tips to follow to ensure your report…
The Top 3 Things Every Mystery Shopper Needs To Know About Timed Shops
Perhaps one of the biggest headaches for mystery shoppers everywhere is the timing requirement on mystery shopping assignments. After all, you have a lot of details to keep track of and remember from the time you walk into a shop location until the time you leave, and watching the clock at various points during your site visit can be a big annoyance. Yet timing is a critical element in how…
What You Can Learn From Past Mystery Shopping Mistakes
There is no formal training to be a mystery shopping. Everything you learn is on-the-job training that you do along the way. With every assignment you complete, you gain more experience and become a better mystery shopper. You refine important skills you need to be a great mystery shopper and you learn new strategies for combating issues you may run into on the job site and with your scheduler. Perhaps…
Easy Ways to Improve Your Report Writing Skills
Whether you’re looking for an easy way to improve your mystery shopper rating with your providers or simply want to avoid the headache of a series of back and forth questions and answers with your provider after you submit your report, you likely want to take some time to improve your report writing skills. What Does That Say? There’s no doubt that spell check can catch a lot of typos….
Easy Ways To Improve Your Mystery Shopping Skills in 2009
If you are like most people, you are probably thinking about ways you can improve yourself in the new year. As a mystery shopper, you’ve likely had your share of issues and challenges with mystery shopping over the last year. So making some changes and improvements to your mystery shopping skills is likely high on your list of things to accomplish in the new year. Here are just a few…
New Years Resolutions for Mystery Shoppers
With a new year just around the corner, you may be thinking about ways to improve yourself in the coming year. As a mystery shopper, there are a number of resolutions you can make to your mystery shopping business that will make mystery shopping more enjoyable and profitable for you in the coming year. Get Organized! With the new year comes the chance to start you organizational system with a…
3 Ways You Can Improve Your Report-Writing
Writing your mystery shopping reports is perhaps one of the most critical aspects of your job as a mystery shopper. You may have the keenest and most unbiased eye when you are on-site, but if you don’t have the ability to translate your observations into a well-written report, your skills are going to waste. There are a few things you can do to improve your report-writing skills. Only The Facts!…
Top Technology Gadgets for Mystery Shoppers
With so many gadgets and gizmos on the market, it may be difficult determining the difference between “needs” and “wants.” While there are a variety of gadgets that will make your life as a mystery shopper easier, there are just a handful of must-haves. Here’s the breakdown: You’ve Got Mail! While many long-time mystery shoppers started mystery shopping long before email was commonplace, an email account these days is a…
Stop That Watch: What You Need To Know About Timing on Mystery Shops
One of the trickiest aspects of mystery shopping is getting the time aspect of your reporting correct. Almost every assignment has a different way of verifying the time on your report. So unless you pay particular attention to how the assignment wants you to report the time, you could end up being very frustrated when you sit down to complete your paperwork and find you didn’t keep proper track of…
The Top 3 Mystery Shopping “Tells” You Need to Know!
If you have ever gotten that email in your inbox saying you have been identified as a mystery shopper on your last assignment, you know that sinking feeling in your stomach. Thoughts race through your head as you ask yourself what you possibly could have done to lead the store employees to thinking you were a mystery shopper. In some cases, unfortunately you as a mystery shopper did everything right,…