Thursday, April 8, 2010

“MYSTERY”- Making Money

Getting paid to visit local stores for evaluation of its service provided is what secret shopper or mystery shopping is. Pretending like an n ordinary customer by getting into a store, not revealing the identity being a mystery shopper is the task. Mystery shopper assesses various areas of the services while they are in the store. These secret shoppers with the aid of questionnaires and comprehensive narratives collect more information. Consumers can be judged without any prejudice by these questionnaires. The additional responsibility of the owner reduces with the help of mystery shopper. Moreover a practical picture can be sketched out by the companies with the support of mystery shoppers of where they stand in fulfilling their customer’s expectation.
Mystery shoppers are of great help to their client in measuring and improvising their levels of services. The management of client uses the report generated by the mystery shopper to further assess and modify its services. Therefore the resultant is increase in sales of an organization. For being a mystery shopper one is paid to shop and even paid to evaluate various kinds of consumer experiences. Payment is given for activities like filling up gas in car, shopping in local hardware store, requesting information about a computer, eating in a local restaurant etc. One is even paid to work from home. Certain tasks are meant to be performed on a phone call.
The list of business using this method for collection of information is quite a long gradually increasing day by day. The best part of being a mystery shopper is that one is paid for everything bought, for example one is even paid for having lunch and dinner. Even if one watches a movie will be paid for the ticket and as well as the job done. This is in fact a money making opportunity for several.
How many times one must have left the store with dissatisfaction? How many times will one go back to that store in future? One shouldn’t be astonished to know that every company is interested in creating an impression or goodwill in the market and in hearts of their customers. Hence the feedback from the secret shopper is an important tool for those organizations putting effort in developing the standards for consumer services. An individual who thinks that some modification can be done in customer service area are suitable for the job of mystery shoppers. It’s a perfect job for one who thinks that one should be paid for shopping as well.
There isn’t any bound for being a mystery shopper. Training is provided to teach one how to collect information according to the need and want of an organization. So if one has time lot can be gained without venturing. There are many organizations which are the largest trade association dedicated in developing and improvising the quality using unidentified resources.

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