Jobs as a Secret Shopper
If you need some EXTRA Income,
want to Work For YOURSELF,
from Your OWN Home, then doing
Jobs as a Secret Shopper
is a Great, Fun & Easy Way
to Shop & Dine and
GET PAID FOR IT!
What is a Secret Shopper? - Jobs as a Secret Shopper
The purpose of secret shopping, which is also known as mystery shopping, is to evaluate how a company is being operated from a customer's standpoint.
The evaluations and reports are completed in an unbiased manner (this is why their own employees aren't used), pointing out the good and areas for improvement, so that companies know how best to improve their business and satisfy their customers.
Secret shopping is a billion dollar industry within market research, and has been around since the 1960's.
As a Secret Shopper, aka Mystery Shopper, you act like a regular customer in the establishment, and then complete a report based on your experience. You then get paid, or get other discounts, upon completion of a report.
Secret Shoppers are needed year-round to evaluate restaurants, retail shops, hotels, apartment buildings, banks, movie theaters, grocery stores, self-storage facilities, community centers, beauty salons, golf courses, amusement parks, video rental stores, gas stations, car dealerships, cell-phone providers, and even airlines!
You will evaluate such things as the friendliness and helpfulness of the staff, the cleanliness of the location, the number of customers, the quality of a product, and even if it's a place you would recommend to others.
Whether you need to pay off bills, save money, or even get job experience, secret shopping will be a great addition to your lifestyle!
What Are The Perks? - Jobs as a Secret Shopper
Secret shopping will definitely not get you rich.
Anything that sounds like that is a scam. Rather, secret shopping is a great way to get extra income, if you are a full or part-time worker, student, retiree, or a stay-at-home mom, etc.
How much you earn per shopping assignment will depend on the nature of the shop. Often you get paid money, other times you get a refund on your purchase, and sometimes other discounts.
As a rule of thumb, the more time and effort a shop requires, the MORE you earn. Also, since you are usually self-employed, you can deduct your expenses on your taxes.
You can tie in the completion of the shops and reports to your own schedule, as long as things are completed by the deadline. There is never any obligation to accept any job, and you are able to choose which assignments to accept, based on what interests you. Often times, if a shop really needs to get done, companies will offer bonuses to ensure that their client can get a report on time.
Best of all, you can take vacation when you want to, with no boss denying you your time-off! Or if you need to take a day off for an appointment, or to be with your child, or simply 'cause you want to relax, you can do that too.
You can work as often or as little as you like, which ties in perfectly for people who have a lot of free time, or very little.
If you do a quality job, and are reliable, you will get selected for MORE assignments, or promotions!
Secret shopping fits in great with anyone's day-to-day routine. Often you can take your kids, family or friends with you on assignment. The great thing is that you NEED to shop and eat, so why not just get paid to do something you would do anyway!
Who Is Eligible? - Jobs as a Secret Shopper
Secret shopping requires people to look like your average shopper, so this type of work is good for either girls or guys, older or younger people, urban or rural residents. Sometimes, a company will require you to be of legal age, depending on their requirements.
As long as you are mature and reliable, can follow directions, have a good memory, and you complete the requirements asked of you, you can excel as a Secret Shopper. Often times, prior experience isn't necessary, as training and support will be provided.
You should be detail-oriented, as you will need to pay attention during an observation, and then in your report writing. Thus, you should be fairly decent at English writing.
The better prepared you are before you do a shop, the easier the shop will be and the more efficient your time when completing your subsequent report. You will know what you need to say and do on a shop, as the instructions will be provided to you.
Of course, you should be able to meet deadlines.
How Do You Get Started? - Jobs as a Secret Shopper
If you would like to become a Secret Shopper, it's really easy to get started.
When you apply to a company, you will be asked to fill out your demographics, and sometimes even complete some questions around customer service.
It's difficult to find companies that need Secrets Shoppers, not because there are no secret shopping jobs available, but because the companies don't tend to advertise themselves.
What they do instead to recruit Secret Shoppers is go through a secret shopping agency. This way the agency does the human resources for them, such as the advertising and recruiting of Secret Shoppers.
Save your time and energy looking all over the Internet trying to hunt down companies that need Secret Shoppers, instead get started as a Secret Shopper sooner rather than later, by joining up with a secret shopping agency.
Once you do that, you have access to their database of hundreds of clients that need Secret Shoppers to evaluate their establishments. Furthermore, they will provide you with the training and support you need to be a successful Secret Shopper!
An agency is a business that needs to make money, in this case they have done all the research for you to uncover jobs as a Secret Shopper. So the cost of signing-up with one is well worth it. You will even get that money back after 1 or 2 shops anyway, so it really is no big deal.
*While it's acceptable to pay a secret shopping agency, who has done the work of finding secret shopping companies for you, you should NOT pay a company for a work placement. Also, do not accept any assignments where you are asked to cash in a check, or to wire funds to foreign lands.*
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Hi, My name is Kat and I've been a Secret Shopper for a few years now! I just love this work, as I can work it around my lifestyle, or simply take a day off when I need to!
The assignments I have done varied from getting my favorite beauty products, to getting my hair done, staying in lavish hotels, to even flying across the world - all for FREE!
I even became a Scheduler, due to my experience as a Secret Shopper, where I would book Secret Shoppers for assignments. It was up to ME to decide who I would schedule. I would choose someone that I could RELY on, based on the quality of secret shopping work they did for me in the past. (I just gave an insider's tip!). I also would offer more assignments to those that would keep in touch with me, and let me know their interest and availability (Wow, another tip!) :).
When I started, I didn't even know where to look to get started as a Secret Shopper. Naturally, I looked on the Internet, but I was just spinning my mind in circles with the wealth of information out there. It was overwhelming and I just wanted a clear-cut direction in which to go in to start secret shopping.
This is when I decided to join a secret shopping agency. I was a bit hesitant at first, but then some offer a money-back guarantee, so I thought what do I really have to lose? Also, I knew I could get that money back when I did shops, plus earn even more!
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