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More Tips for Becoming a Successful Mystery Shopper: Being a successful and well paid mystery shopper means doing all you can to perform your assignments to the very best of your ability. These tips will help you do just that:
* Start an ideas file in case you might one day start your own mystery shopping business.
* Some shops have strict deadlines for accepting, undertaking and returning reports. Stick to those deadlines or be labeled unprofessional, unreliable, and risk losing all work with the establishment involved and the hiring company!
* Decline jobs you won’t enjoy or might compromise your principles. A committed teetotaler, for example, might feel uncomfortable handing out drinks vouchers in pubs and wine bars, as might a lifelong vegetarian assigned to butchers shops and fishmongers.
* Be as accurate and thorough as possible both in doing the shop and reporting your findings. Answer questions clearly and thoroughly but don’t waffle. If you mean ‘dirty’, say ‘dirty’, don’t feel obliged to gloss over the company’s bad points. They have employed you to tell the truth, to be their eyes and ears, they need you to be honest and open! Be precise, don’t repeat points, although you can underline or otherwise emphasize important comments.
* Don’t comment on matters not associated with the assignment. For example, if you are asked to count people leaving the shop, don’t include copious notes on the state of the toilets and the fact your favorite brand of beans were sold out.
* Work at improving your skills of communicating in spoken and written word. Use the right words to describe your thoughts and feelings and don’t use words you think are appropriate, know they are the correct words to use!
* Don’t try to impress others with your writing skills and extensive vocabulary. If they need a writer or speaker, they’ll find one! So use everyday words to communicate your thoughts and write, preferably type your reports for the clearest, neatest presentation possible.
* Never, ever, use sheets of lined paper torn from the children’s exercise books. Be professional, buy yourself a ream of quality white paper for typed and written reports. Anyone who has trouble writing straight lines can lay a ruled sheet of paper under the top plain sheet and be guided by the lines showing through.
* For nearby shops visit once as a genuine shopper so you’ll know which areas to evaluate during the real assignment.
* Respond to job offers fast. Firms do not like to be kept waiting and even where shops are not allocated ‘first come, first served’ you might still alienate a potential employer by appearing less enthusiastic than other shoppers.
* Make sure hirers can reach you at all times, if not in person, then at least by leaving a faxed or recorded telephone message. Anyone proving too hard to reach, especially for urgent jobs, will be dropped from the list.
Extract from: Be a Mystery Shopper GET PAID TO SHOP … and keep everything you ‘buy’ completely free of charge! byAvril Harper
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