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Mystery shopping employment can give you a better chance to earn money on a regular basis. Recently, this occupation has gained much popularity among the housewives or retired persons. Even the students are also earning their pocket money through this employment opportunity. However, there are some types of misunderstanding among the people regarding this occupation. Many of them take it as a sincere earning opportunity, whereas some people have an idea that this employment never gives any chance to earn a reasonable amount of money. Both these ideas can be wrong if there is any misunderstanding of this profession among the candidates.

Starting your career in mystery shopping employment could be little critical. To start with you have to find a legitimate company on which you can rely. Many people have bad experiences with the shopping companies as they had to pay for getting the assignments and finally they lost their money without any work at all. Lots of fraud has been engaged into this business. Some of these companies do not exist, but people associated with these companies having fake identities are making money from innocent people. There is a chance of getting deceived, if you are a newcomer. To be on the safe side, it is always advised that you should not be associated with any company which accepts an enrolment fee.

For your mystery shopping employment you should get enrolled with many shopping companies. This will increase the probability of getting more assignments. But still if you enroll with multiple companies, the probability of getting assignments is very unpredictable. Some people may receive many assignments, whereas some do not receive any at all. Some of the companies you are applying for might be inactive or the website may not contain recent information. So, you will not receive any assignments from them. To receive regular assignments, you have to enroll with active companies. You can select these companies by checking the list of reliable shopping companies available in the website of the association.

Receiving regular assignments from your mystery shopping employment also depends on your locality. If you are placed in a remote or unknown locality having less business points, there is less chance of getting many assignments. The probability of attending many assignments automatically increases, when you live in a major business center like a city or famous town or well known tourist place. In addition to this, if you can gain some experience in this field, then also the chance of attending more assignments increases. While working, you have to be very sincere and dedicated, so that a reputation builds up. A good reputation will also help you to receive more assignment opportunities.

Even if you can satisfy all the above conditions, you can not expect to make a huge earning from your mystery shopping employment . Normally these companies will pay you monthly, weekly or bi weekly. If you work full time with these employments serving regular assignments, at most your daily earning will be around 200 dollars. Many fake websites might claim that you will be making around 1000 dollar daily. But, that is never possible. So, you can not make a living for your family just with this job. However, if you take this as a second line income, then it might add up to a nice salary. Also, you can enjoy the associated benefits of this job with your friends and family.

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There is no restriction on who can get mystery shopping employment . The only qualification that a special shopper needs is that he or she has to be an adult. Anyone from the student to the retired senior citizen to self storage managers can be a shopper. In fact anyone who is a shopper in the real life can enroll to become a special shopper. The main gainers of this mode of earning are the women who stay at home. They often find enough time beyond their domestic chores when they can earn a bit of money with special shopping. They are not only the beneficiaries but they are also the most sought after.

Finding mystery shopping employment is not a tough job but finding the right company is. Since this special shopping is becoming popular day by day many companies, genuine and frauds, are flooding the market. So it is very difficult to identify the genuine and legitimate companies. All a person interested in special shopping needs to do is to get registered with a genuine company. To identify a genuine company all you have to look out for is whether the companies actually undertakes any special shopping at all or are posing as placement agents for other companies. Do not register with the later type because the companies undertaking special shopping directly register the shoppers into their pool.

Do not think that the companies giving you mystery shopping employment will take you in just like that. The real companies will look for the correct people for their job to be done. Normally during the time of registration they will ask you to go through a questionnaire to judge how fruitful will you be to them. This quiz also gives you a glimpse into the activities they are into and you will also be able to find out whether you are suitable for that type of job. The payment in this job is on per assignment basis. The more assignments you will be able to get and complete, the more will be your payment.

At the very beginning of mystery shopping employment it will not be very easy though the company will start off with easy assignments. It is something like initiating you into the fold. With the passage of time and successful completion of assignments, the nature of the assignments get tougher as well as more paying when the shoppers gains experienced. The company where you have registered as a shopper will e-mail you the assignment details and you will have to go through the instructions accompanying the assignment. This is because sometimes the assignments are designed for specific purposes and special observations are made to ascertain something special.

Whatever people might say and the sites may claim, mystery shopping employment does not provide enough money to sustain a family. So this should never be the prime source of income. Some people are experienced enough to earn quite a sum but they have to dedicate almost the whole time to this objective. The thing that is special with this type of job is that you get to keep any object that you have to buy to do your survey. Though you pay for the goods when shopping, the amount is reimbursed at the time of payment. Whatever may be the drawbacks of the job or whatever may be the advantages, it is true that in this job there is place for everybody.

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Welcome to the secret shopping blog.

Today I did three in-person shops of three different storage facilities in Miami. I wanted to see how people sell self storage in this market.

I did one of my cruel but effective acid tests. I went in around lunch time and looked at my watch a lot. I played, “I’m on my lunch hour and I don’t have much time”.

The first store manager was renting a unit to a customer. He was having fun with the customer and doing the move-in routine. He had an assistant behind the counter who must have been getting ready to go to lunch, because he ignored me as I waited and slipped out the door. The manager handed me a price list and asked me to look at it while he finished with the people he was helping. He asked me to wait while he was about to take the new customers to show them their unit and finish the move-in routine. I told him I’d check back and not to worry about it because I had the price list and I left the store. I was a fish that got away.

At the second store the manager locked the front door behind me and took me up to show me a unit. At least he asked me a few qualifying questions while giving me prices. I said “Thanks” and that I had to get back to work. He said “Ok” and let me get away, too.

The last manager I messed with at least asked me what I would be storing and helped me picture what a 5×15 might look like. I Said I had to get back to work and wrote down the price he gave me on a card and left. He let me get away, too.

No one tried to seal a deal with me. No one tried to get my name and contact info. No one had me fill anything out. No one asked to reserve a unit for me.

It was an interesting day.

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Welcome to the secret shopping blog, where we keep a diary of our experience in the world of secret shopping and mystery shopping.

The world of Secret Shopping is not fool-proof. We decided to add another element to our department about two weeks ago. We came to the agreement that we would add a couple of new shoppers. Fresh bodies are important for the secret shopping world because they add new voices and new scenarios. After a very vigorous training session, the training coordinator got both of the new people up and running. Trust me when I say that this training is precise. One of the new people started right away on their shops, and did great. They got about 19 shops done in an hour and a half. We considered that to be pretty great because some of the shops they finished were usually difficult to obtain. Another regular shopper finished about 20 shops later in the day after their shift.

When the audio vault was checked a couple of days later it was discovered that while the calls were in the audio vault there was no actual recording of any of the shops. My first question to myself was why the new person was allowed to be here for an hour and a half without checking one of their calls to make sure they were doing them correctly. Besides the actual shop, there is at least one other thing to take into consideration at this point. Was the new person voice at the correct level for a correct recording? This seems to me like an important thing to check right off the bat.

Well, after a little investigation, the problem was figured out. It seems that someone had been doing some evaluations at that same computer one day earlier and had plugged in their headset. In the act of plugging in the headset, they unplugged one of the connections to the phone that completes the wiring for the recorder. From a technical stand point, not a big issue. The plug was put in the correct place and we were ready to go. Worst case scenario, we lost about 39 shops and a few days of work time. So we rearranged the schedule a bit and are trying to get back on track.

We learned a lesson that day. The future will hold more whoopsies, but hopefully they will get figured out quickly and without much damage.

Thanks, Natalie

“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” Henry J. Kaiser

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