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What You Will Need to Become a Mystery Shopper: Essential personal characteristics are reliability and confidentiality as well as a genuine desire to do your best and help your employer achieve his objectives. This means behaving professionally at all times, being punctual and reliable, and ensuring your responses are accurate and complete.
Occasionally, special experience is required, as for example where someone is engaged to sample wines in a local pub, where it’s reasonable to expect that person enjoys and can differentiate between various types of wine.
Alternatively, certain physical characteristics might be essential, as in the case of our wheelchair-bound friend who regularly inspects facilities for the physically challenged, and a colored colleague who regularly tests attitudes towards minority racial groups, while another elderly friend checks how young and older shop assistants react when she fakes a memory lapse or sudden loss of balance!
The same elderly shopper was engaged to fake a heart attack to check how well the store’s first-aiders coped under pressure!
Good communication skills are vital and you must be able to communicate your experiences clearly and concisely. Except for telephone and Internet marketing, transportation is essential. A reliable car lets you carry out several jobs in one day, although public transport is adequate for most assignments.
A home telephone is vital and is the source of most job offers. Fax and answer phone are essential, too, allowing hirers to stay in constant touch and help you chase offers fast before they are delegated elsewhere. Many opportunities are emailed or posted on the Internet making a home computer a virtual necessity.
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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