If you have completed even a handful of mystery shopping assignments, you’ve likely had a scheduler ask you to correct or revise your report in some fashion. Oftentimes, the scheduler’s requests are to clarify what you have written in your report if it is confusing or appears to be contradictory. Or the scheduler may have a pretty good idea for what the company is looking for in terms of specific…
How To Create Great Cover Stories So You’ll Never Get Caught!
The thought of being revealed as a mystery shopper brings fear into the hearts of shoppers everywhere. One of the biggest tip-offs you can give a salesperson or store associate that you are a shopper is giving off suspicious clues during your conversation with them. Here are a few tips to follow to help you avoid being spotted as a mystery shopper: If The Shoe Fits. The story you tell…
Rejuvenate Your Interest In Mystery Shopping By Taking A Break
Regardless of how long you have been a mystery shopper or how many assignments you take on, there may come a time when you notice yourself losing interest in mystery shopping. The shop assignments may be entering your inbox, and you delete them before looking at them. Or you may look at the new shop assignments but none of them seem to be worth your time and effort. You may…
Become A Better Shopper By Joining A Mystery Shopping Community
While you go about your business as a mystery shopper, you likely feel a sense of seclusion and isolation in your job. You don’t have co-workers to interact with around the water cooler, and you have very little contact with your supervisor. There isn’t any after-work gossip at the local bar or the camaraderie of a regular lunch bunch at the noon hour. Somewhere within the regular gossip and chatter…
3 Reasons Why You Should Branch Out And Try A New Kind Of Shop
As with many things in life, mystery shoppers often get into a comfortable groove with their shop assignments. They find a few providers they like to work with, that typically have generally the same type of shop assignments for usually the same group of retailers, restaurants, and so forth. When you walk through the same type of shop time after time, you may start to skim over some of the…
How To Keep Your Cover From Being Blown!
When you enter a store to complete a shop, your big objective is to shop according to the requirements provided without being discovered as a mystery shopper. Oftentimes to complete the requirements, you have to play the role of someone you are not. For instance, you may have to act like an avid soccer fan or a lover of fine wines. For some shoppers, this is incredibly easy to do,…
Hot Tips For Note-Taking: How to Easily Remember Every Detail from Your Mystery Shopping Assignment
There is often so much detailed information to remember on a mystery shop assignment. Your requirements may ask you to keep track of the employee’s name, a description of the employee, the time you entered and left the store, how long you were in the store or fitting room before someone helped you, if the displays were set up appropriately and if so, what was wrong with them… the list…
Easy Ways To Get Difficult Information On A Shop
Many times on a shop assignment you will be required to get information that may seem simple enough to get, but may end up being more difficult than you might think. For example, while some shop requirements are satisfied by getting a simple description of the employee who helps you, other shop requirements will not pay you if you fail to get the employee’s name. Even this seems easy until…
Top Tricks for Mystery Shopping With Kids
At some point, many mystery shoppers need to do a shop with kids in tow. Whether you are a working parent who needs to do an evening shop when your children are out of school, a retired shopper who volunteered to watch the grandkids on a day you have a shop scheduled, or a stay at home mom, the time will come when you have to go into a mystery…
How To Take Your Mystery Shopping Business To The Next Level
If you’ve signed up to be a mystery shopper and have completed a couple of shops, you can probably tell there isn’t much skill or luck involved in getting the best job around – mystery shopping! Shop providers are pretty open about accepting new mystery shoppers into their ranks, provided you’ve shown a general interest in shopping and have basic skills mastered, like reading and writing. It also doesn’t take…