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Reasons Why Firms Use Mystery Shoppers: “Mystery Shoppers Go Undetected Into a Business, Critique the Products and Services, and Submit a Completed Report to Their Employer.” Leading U.S. market research company specializing in placement of mystery shoppers.
What they see and the service they receive will not be distorted by who they are or what influence they have over staff! It’s a bit like role-playing or acting where the make-believe session is designed to resemble the real life experience as closely as possible.
There’s a bit of an actor in every successful mystery shopper!
Employees who know they’re being watched tend to perform better, hence the preference for a mystery shopper who appears like any other customer and will be treated exactly the same.
So mystery shoppers evaluating high street shops and supermarkets pretend to be genuine customers, and will select goods, ask questions, approach staff, visit the toilets, eat in the cafeteria, and go through the checkout in the same way as everyone else. No-one will know who they are or what they are really doing, not even management.
The great thing about mystery shopping is that you can usually work hours that suit you best. And you’ll even find our advice helps you pick and choose jobs you’ll really enjoy and even the goods you want to take home free.
Take a look at just a handful of hundreds of offers in my email today:
- Several openings exist for Internet users to shop online with major shops and to report back on appearance of web sites, ease and speed of navigating between links, choice of goods and services, price comparisons, delivery times, and so on. Major players in this league include ToysRUs (great for getting gifts for the kids at Christmas), and Amazon books. Payment varies between companies and most goods are yours to keep free of charge! All without ever leaving home!
- An international mystery shopping agency wants individuals to hand out drinks coupons in retail locations across Europe. The job pays $8 an hour and you could even travel across Europe funding your trip from this one opportunity alone. What better way for students and backpackers to see the world on a shoestring budget?
- A leading US mystery shopping agency seeks individuals in all English-speaking countries to collect direct mail offers – commonly called ‘junk’ mail - dropping through their letterboxes each day, which must be bundled and posted back to the company. Payment is $1 per item, return postage is refunded.
- A UK agency requires hundreds of people to shop at three thousand locations across the UK and report back on their experiences. Payment is from £10 to £30 a shop. Choose one type of shop, choose several, work locally, cover the entire country. You could even work your way around Britain staying in hotels requiring mystery shoppers, eating in restaurants and fast food outlets all over the country, buying clothes to wear on your travels, visiting theme parks and other tourist attractions, even buying gifts to take home to your loved ones. Beat that for a free and easy lifestyle!
- A UK agency requires individuals to choose their own shopping venue from the list provided online and to write a few sentences about the experience for a chance to win £50.
- Golfers - new and experienced - are needed to visit golf retail shops across the United States to ask staff questions to determine how helpful and knowledgeable they are. No purchase is necessary but £10 is paid for every shop.
- Hundreds of participants are required to visit banks all across America and return simple yes/no questionnaires about the likes of customer care, waiting times, length of queues, staff efficiency. Over three hundred locations exist for shoppers and foreign visitors are welcome to apply. Pay equates to $10 per shop.
- A British-based company with stores all over Europe wants individuals to stand outside stores to ask customers leaving the store what they had bought and why. More importantly, the client needs to know why those leaving empty-handed went into the shop and why they left without buying.
- A UK seeks people to man a stall where shoppers can select sachets of different flavor crisp dips and record the number of times each flavor is selected in preference to others. The results will help the company determine whether choice varies according to geographical area or age and sex of testers.
- An international publishing company requires individuals to visit its web site and select three free reports to download from a selection of 100 plus to determine which categories are most popular and best suited to extensive one title marketing campaigns.
- Another UK company is seeking full-time mystery shoppers to work in all areas of commerce all over the world.
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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