Become A Secret Shopper : Top 5 Reasons
A lot of people are trying to find jobs outside their 9-5 job market. The work at home job market offers many diverse choices and options. Mystery shopping is one such option that is getting popular.
Mystery shopping, also known as secret shopping or secret shopping, involves activities like shopping, eating out and even buying things online. You do this based upon assignments from the company. Then after shopping you write up a report regarding your experience.
Secret shopper helps businesses to fix issues with their store and with their service. It is very valuable to the businesses that hire mystery shoppers because it helps the business to keep improving and providing good service to its customers.
Below are five reasons why you may want to give mystery shopping a try
Reason #1 – Make money working from home
Working from home allows you to have more time for your love ones, be your own boss and control your time. You have more freedom and more time to live your life.
Working from home allows you to work around your life instead of the other way around. In addition, you will save money on commuting, get to write off expenses on your taxes and save money on child care.
Reason #2
Simple work that doesn’t require special skills or training.
Mystery shopping does not require a lot of experience. All you need to be able to do is go to the locations and give your opinion about your experience.
The basic skills needed are being able to read and write well. Almost everyone can meet the requirements to be a mystery shopper because they are simple and straightforward.
Reason #3
A job that fits your life.
Mystery shopping allows you the choice to take the assignments you want and pass on those you do not. If you do not feel like working for a week then you do not have to do it at all.
There are a lot of options and you are in charge. You can have the choice of where to shop and what types of assignments you will take.
Reason #4
A variety of work so it’s always fun.
There are many different scenarios in mystery shopping. You can do shops at grocery stores, theatres, pubs, specialty stores and even on the Internet. You will always find something that fits your interests.
You get to do the work that you like. This allows you to do shops at places you would normally visit and not have to go somewhere you would never actually shop.
Reason #5
Get paid to shop.
Most of all, the top reason to be a mystery shopper is that you get paid to shop. Your assignment will tell you where to go and you get shop on the company’s dime. You will usually get reimbursed for almost all things that they tell you to buy. Plus you get paid for doing the shop.
So which job is better than getting paid to do what you love to do? job for you if you love to shop and speak your mind.
Tags: money working from home, Consumer behaviour, Human Interest, secret shopper, reason 2, working from home, mystery shoppers, PlayStation Home, child careOriginally posted 2008-05-15 05:13:57.
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this website will point you in the right direction
(I'm a mystery shopper myself)
you will have to apply at each listing
its easy to do,and fun to do
and thanks to mystery shopping -indirectly I found my current job, and well have learned things
No, not necessarily. It should just be interesting, as in "interest". Generally, a human interest story is something that is unique, unusual or emotionally touching.
Mark, I'm new to the Blogosphere and have begun writing a blog on customer service and how to improve the customer experience. My company BarServ is a mystery shopping firm based here in Dallas-Fort Worth. I'm trying to write about original ideas from my head and not linking out to other blogs. Hope you have an opportunity to check it out.GD
I'm making tons of money doing it, and I just started in August. I love doing it. It's alot of fun and I can do it in my spare time…
Go to and there's a huge list of REAL mystery shopping companies. The rule of thumb I've found is NEVER pay a company to be a mystery shopper. The ones that ask for money are either scams or just aren't worth the money you'd pay them…
below are some of my favorite companies' links. … Good luck
Bare Associates International (BAI):
Beyond Hello: http://www.beyondhello.com
DSG Associates:
IntelliShop: [...]
Seriously – points 2, 3 and 5 of the PepsiCo quote are very interesting. Other big brands will be thinking along similar lines, sooner or later, so the next decade or two should start to see positive changes as their marketing shifts, or nudges, consumer behaviour.
little hands child care center and have the kids put hand prints on your sign you use to advertise your business, that would be neat.
Welcome to the world of scammers. There once was and still are secret shoppers. But you can bet your future value that zero actually exist at that website. Everyone wants to be a seceret shopper. And scammers play on that.
heard it. Now believe it. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
I am the President of the Independent Mystery Shoppers’ Coalition and will be glad to help anyone interested? in getting mystery shopping at absolutely no cost. Just email me at
The shopper himself/herself is not mysterious. Mysterious shopper would be like saying "The shopper is mysterious". a mystery shopper because the shopper is just a normal shopper and who the shopper is, is a mystery.
Example– he is a football player a player of football. she is a mystery shopper a shopper kept a mystery.