Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Essential Know-how as a Mystery Shopper

A career in part time or full time as a mystery shopper can be profitable and enjoyable at the same time. As a secret shopper one gets to decide own agenda or schedule and gets paid for the task that one anyhow does quite often. Moreover, the task isn’t tough or brain nerving too, all one has to do is to pretend as a secret shopper and notice to the particulars prevailing inside and outside the store. There isn't any need to mug up all the points noticed as one can note them down. After completion of secret shopping visit, a mystery shopper has to submit a detailed and a descriptive report to the company stating all the observation during the visit made and wait to collect one's check.

Many people aren’t aware about this easier task of money making with the help of mystery shopping. One has to do certain homework to get to know about the opportunity before efficiently performing it. Moreover, training is imparted by the company on what its demand and needs are as a secret shopper but would only give a brief description. The companies are shrewd enough to justify that if one has messed up or missed out a detail, they can acquire the rest of the important report and utilize it to improve their services and product to earn more profit by not paying a penny for the mistake made by secret shoppers.

Getting a secret shopper’s job is a difficult task for one to do. However, one may find several web sites with advertisement supposedly listing hundreds of officially authorized and legal secret shopping companies but the truth is that there aren’t many real mystery shopping companies available in the market. Majority of the shopping companies that one may find on those web sites are obsolete or only offer few shopping assignments. Finally an individual is left over with walking so many times in a store with the same clerk or cashier working there to play the undercover role of a mystery shopper.

Basically one needs a guide to become a secret shopper. A tool that may help one to know the pros and cons of the mystery shopping jobs, so that one can start getting his share of profit. Even one may need a catalog of legally highly paying, recently and regularly updated companies so that one doesn’t have to waste their precious time and money looking for the same. There are number of books available in the market guiding one how to be a competent mystery shopper and prepare descriptive reports without wasting their hard earned money and time.

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