You wouldn’t be here if you weren’t looking for extra income, right? Well getting started with mystery shopping is the easiest process imaginable. Once you’ve taken care of all the logistics with signing up, next up is finding shops, managing your time, and making sure you’re not taking on too much. Continue reading “Making Mystery Shopping Magic”
Category: Tips for Mystery Shopping
Fair Housing and Apartment Mystery Shopping
Dealing with Fair Housing questions is probably the toughest thing for a leasing agent to master, but it’s important for their management company to know how they are handling Fair Housing questions and situations on the property. Continue reading “Fair Housing and Apartment Mystery Shopping”
Four Ways to Keep Your Mystery Shopping Reports Fresh
So you’ve been shopping for a while now and you have several successful shops under your belt. You’re probably starting to see a pattern with your shops and your reports may be sort of… running together. What’s the best way to keep your mystery shopping reports fresh and unique? Continue reading “Four Ways to Keep Your Mystery Shopping Reports Fresh”
4 Ways to Avoid a Bad Mystery Shop
It has happened (or can happen) to the best of us. Things don’t go as planned on one of our mystery shop contracts. We certainly did not intend for anything with the shop to go wrong, even though at times it feels like the mystery shopping company believes we did. Continue reading “4 Ways to Avoid a Bad Mystery Shop”
5 Mystery Shopping Tools For Success
There are several key mystery shopping tools for success. It goes without saying that having a keen eye is essential to being a great mystery shopper. Beyond that, there are tools you can use to aid you along the way. Here are 5 mystery shopping tools for success on every shop. Continue reading “5 Mystery Shopping Tools For Success”
10 Questions A Leasing Professional Might Ask on an Apartment Shop
As a former leasing professional, my management company had specific questions we were required to ask each prospect who contacted our apartment community. Even though we were encouraged to eventually go off script, every person who was interested in renting an apartment with me would be asked at a minimum the required questions. Continue reading “10 Questions A Leasing Professional Might Ask on an Apartment Shop”
How to Tell Between Real Mystery Shopping Opportunities and Scams
Mystery shopping is fun as long as you look for red flags that could signal mystery shopping scams. There are more reasons to mystery shop than to miss out on it – so don’t let a few bad apples make you feel leery about the mystery shopping industry as a whole.
Continue reading “How to Tell Between Real Mystery Shopping Opportunities and Scams”
5 Tips to Avoid Getting Your Mystery Shopper Report Rejected
Avoid Getting Your Mystery Shopper Report Rejected
Once you’ve signed up to become a mystery shopper, the real experience begins. Picking your shop contracts and completing them are the easy, fun part of being a mystery shopper. The hard part is writing your mystery shopper report. Continue reading “5 Tips to Avoid Getting Your Mystery Shopper Report Rejected”
Four Reasons Not to Take Kids on a Mystery Shop
Unless you are specifically assigned to a kid-friendly shop, meaning the mystery shop contract specifications state you will take children with you to conduct the shop, it’s best to mystery shop alone or only with another adult.
There are several reasons not to take kids on a mystery shop. Here are 4 major reasons: Continue reading “Four Reasons Not to Take Kids on a Mystery Shop”
How to Make Mystery Shopping Pay Off
5 Tips to Make Mystery Shopping Pay
A little extra income is wonderful no matter how you slice it, but how do you really make mystery shopping worthwhile for you?
If you have any experience with mystery shopping, you’ve already learned that you can earn money doing it, but you may be wondering how you can justify the gas, the time, and the commitment that goes into mystery shopping. Continue reading “How to Make Mystery Shopping Pay Off”