How Mystery Shoppers Can Increase Their Income
How Mystery Shoppers Can Increase Their Income
As a mystery shopper, you can make more money. Here are 3 ways: 1) build the number of companies you work for, 2) find out which types of jobs pay the most, and 3) get your own clients and pocket most of the income.
1. How do you build the number of companies you work for?
First, get in the door with a mystery shopper application that is filled out in a way that impresses. I own a mystery shopping company. Only about 1/3 of the applicants get into our program. Why? Because we ask for a paragraph about a recent visit to a store or restaurant. I look for grammar, spelling, and objective facts. The better the writing/English skills, the more impressed I am. Only 1/3 of the people pass that test. What does this mean for you? If other companies function like we do, if you fill out an application well, you might not have much competition for jobs.
Second, once you are in the door, do a great job. If a mystery shopper does a great job of reporting, and is reliable, I will tend to lean on them more. That means they will get more work. From our perspective, a great job means: following all instructions to the letter, if a paragraph is required, make sure it does not leave any questions (going back and forth getting more details from a shopper slows down our invoicing process), there are no abbreviations, all sentences are complete, and use either Google toolbar's spellcheck or another spell check program to correct any spelling errors. The less editing/correcting of reports, the more we will like the shopper and use them.
Also if the mystery shopper shows an interest in doing shops, by accepting most of the ones we send to them, that signals they have an interest, and we will rely on them more.
Now, you have lots of jobs coming from one source. You are building "up". Now build "out" by duplicating your efforts via working with as many mystery shopping companies as you can. Search job boards, such as jobslinger to find more companies that have jobs in your area.
2. The second way to make more money is to find out which types of jobs pay the most.
You can quickly scan jobs in your area by going to the home page of shadowshopper.com and going to the "find available jobs" link on the bottom. That will take you to a page where you can input your zip code to see local listings. The same exercise can be done at jobslinger, use the Search Near box. A quick scan of jobs at these sites will reveal which job types pay the most.
3. The third way to make more money is to get your own clients.
The advantages are that you make all of the income on a given shop (less what you pay other mystery shoppers working for you), and that most mystery shopping contracts are ongoing, and for multiple locations, meaning you will make more money, and on a lot more shops. What skills do you need? 1) The ability to present yourself in a confident manner to prospective clients. Since you are most likely already a mystery shopper, you are probably knowledgeable and this will show. 2) The ability to get the job done. Obviously there is more to getting your own clients, but this gives you a taste of the possibilities.
There you have it. Mystery shoppers can make a lot more money and create a steady income stream. Copyright 2010 Shari Joseph.
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