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Tips for Becoming a Successful Mystery Shopper: You want to get as many mystery shopping jobs as possible, and that means working hard to please mystery shopping companies. The following tips will help you do just that:
* Read the rules and abide by them. If it says ‘enter the shop at 9 am’, don’t do it two hours later. If it says ‘fax your report’, do just that. If they ask for email or telephoned reports, that’s what you give them!
* Only apply for work because you enjoy the experience and not just for money! Boredom, stress and apathy will show through and might even make you more noticeable to staff.
* Don’t be surprised to hear you have been checked yourself during the shop or afterwards. Some shops use closed circuit cameras to check how discretely the mystery shopper performs a task and whether that person does in fact do all that is asked of her. Some firms will even assign other shoppers to work the same store, at the same time, with the same instructions, to check consistency of answers.
* Be totally up-front and honest about everything in your report and questionnaire as well as your claim forms. Don’t tell lies about bus fares or distance traveled to shop, and so on. While you might get away with it once in a while, you will eventually be caught and dropped from the list. Don’t take the risk!
* Many successful mystery shoppers, having gained experience with other companies, begin working independently, by targeting potential clients in person, by telephone or mail. While shopping for the family, a friend with several years’ experience approached the manager of her local supermarket with suggestions for improving their performance and offering herself as a mystery shopper. Having gained one regular client, the exercise was repeated until eventually she had enough work to begin turning down outside assignments.
Mystery shopping is not a get-rich-quick scheme by any means, except for firms employing their own mystery shoppers, but most certainly a very good way to make money from shopping and maybe even get a nice selection of goodies for free!
As the fight for profit intensifies, more and more firms will look to mystery shoppers to help them win new business and increase customer loyalty.
Above all enjoy this amazing new opportunity awaiting you! 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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