Most providers specifically forbid sub-contracting your work assignment to another mystery shopper in your service agreement. This includes friends, family members, and even spouses. However, some mystery shoppers have found some wiggle room in this area, whether by a gray area in the assignment requirements or simply by necessity. The Gray Area. Some assignments require that you bring along friends or family members on the assignment. This is most commonly…
Determining If An Assignment Is Paying A Reasonable Fee
Mystery shoppers always want to know if they are getting paid adequately for their time and efforts. With each assignment varying in the time commitment involved, the efforts required at the job site, and the complexity of the report, it is not always easy to determine if an assignment is paying a reasonable fee. There are some easy steps you can make to help take the guesswork out of this…
Make Plans To Relax With A Regular Break From Mystery Shopping
With almost every type of job, you work a few days and take a few days off. Occasionally you may have to work over a weekend to complete a project at the office, but for the vast majority of workers, a constant seven day work week is simply unthinkable. With the breaks you get from working, you can complete tasks around the house, run personal errands, and spend time with…
Add Some Luxury To Your Life With Mystery Shopping
Much has been said about the benefits of mystery shopping in the current economic downturn. Mystery shoppers have been able to use mystery shopping to make ends meet, from buying the basics like groceries and gas, to helping to purchase clothing and shoes for the whole family. Many families have cut out luxuries from their household budgets during the recession, but you can use mystery shopping to make enjoying some…
The Value Of Mystery Shopping: It’s More Than A Paycheck!
Mystery shopping is about more than just making a paycheck. If you started your career as a mystery shopper with the dreams of making big bucks, you will likely be sorely disappointed. Mystery shopping is a great way to put some extra cash in your pocket, but very few people make even enough money as a mystery shopper to make this a full-time job. Instead, most mystery shoppers are happy…
Keep Your Car In Tip-Top Shape With Mystery Shopping
Mystery shoppers everywhere can use mystery shopping to keep their cars looking and running great. When you sign up to do some of the many auto-related mystery shopping assignments, you can earn money and get reimbursed for some or all of the repairs, services, and maintenance tasks you need to keep your car in tip-top shape! Save Big Bucks On Oil Changes. In many parts of the country, oil change…
How To Keep The Excitement In Your Mystery Shopping Gig
People choose to be mystery shoppers for a variety of reasons, and high among those reasons is the excitement of working at a new job site and having the thrill of working undercover. Yet after awhile, you may find yourself working the same batch of assignments, rotating the same assignments out every couple of months. You may get bored at a job without co-workers. And answering the same type of…
What’s Your Bottom Line As A Mystery Shopper?
Whether you’re a new mystery shopper or you’ve been mystery shopping for years, we all want to pick and choose the assignments that make the most money. It can be tempting to look simply at the face value of an assignment and think a $5 or $10 assignment is just that. However, when you are a self-employed mystery shopper, there is much more that goes into your bottom line calculation…
How To Cope With Mystery Shopping Paranoia
You can be calm, cool, and collected one minute, coasting through your site visit without a problem. But one slightly odd look from a salesperson can lead you to feel extremely nervous and anxious. Perhaps the look was a little longer than it should have been or there was a slight raise of the salesperson’s eyebrows. For whatever reason, your mystery shopper radar has been put on high alert, and…
Work Mystery Shopping Into Your Summer Vacation Plans
Whether you’ve got big plans for a beach vacation at a resort, you’re heading out with the family on a road trip across the country, or you’re just visiting family a few towns over, you can make extra money this summer by working a few mystery shopping assignments into your vacation plans. Taking Flight. If you’re flying to your destination this summer, a whole world of opportunities open up to…