While many economists believe we are in the midst of bouncing back from the deep recession that has been plaguing us for the past few years, many mystery shoppers are still feeling the financial pinch of recessionary woes. With only a limited amount of time in the day to work on mystery shopping assignments, most [...]
Is Your Local Area Over-Saturated with Other Mystery Shoppers?
Chances are, you will not be getting a formal announcement from your providers about the high number of mystery shoppers in your area, but you will absolutely see the signs. You will notice over time that fewer and fewer assignments seem to be available on the job boards, and this is because they will be [...]
Fill Your Work Schedule Fast with Self-Assign Shops
Almost every mystery shopping assignment you work on will have some timing component involved. Some assignments will simply ask for you to take note of the time you entered the site location, and then also indicate the time you left the site location. Other assignments, however, have far more complicated timing requirements. They may ask [...]
How to Get Higher Paying Mystery Shopping Assignments
If you have been to the mystery shopping online forums in recent months, you may have noticed that there are a handful of mystery shoppers who have somehow managed to turn this job into a full-time career. They largely will be the first to admit that they aren’t earning what most people would term “big [...]
How Many Mystery Shopping Assignments Is Too Many?
If you know other mystery shoppers personally or even if you have visited the mystery shopping forums online, you no doubt have heard others talk about completing an astronomical number of assignments in a given day or week. You may struggle to do half as many as they do in the same amount of time. [...]