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FRINGE BENEFITS OF MYSTERY SHOPPING

Mystery shopping provides extra cash, products and services and so much more. The flexibility of mystery shopping appeals to students, stay at home moms and full time workers that need some supplemental income. Because you are an independent contractor (the boss), you can select shops convenient to your schedule. This flexibility provides freedom not found in traditional paid hourly part time jobs. You can also benefit from products and services that are a part of some shops. How about having the carpet shampooed, plumbing repairs completed, and oil changed in the car. There is reimbursement for numerous meals ranging from fast food to fine dining and some of these shops include a small fee in addition to the reimbursement. The best cash producers are banks, financial institutions, apartments, assisted living facilities and new car sales. Obviously you would not purchase a car or lease an apartment.

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Mystery shopping can be educational. By doing evaluations at financial institutions, you can learn a lot about investments. You can be educated on the differences between fixed annuities and variable annuities and the advantages/disadvantages of mutual funds.

What are some of the other benefits? You can actually have fun doing the job. You may have a shop that sends you to the mall to evaluate a clothing store and make a small purchase. You may evaluate a coffee shop and have the satisfaction of knowing that the cost of the special coffee and pastry will be reimbursed. It tastes even sweeter!

There is the added benefit of doing an evaluation when the customer service was excellent. You know that the employee will be recognized for their good performance. Some shops are actually used as a part of determining bonuses for employees. It’s a good feeling to know that you have been a small part of a good thing. On the other hand, if customer service was less than stellar, your evaluation may be a small part of re-training or replacing that employee.

Overall, mystery shopping is a great way to make some money, get some freebies, learn some things and do some good.

Quick Ways to Get Into a Mystery Shopping Mood

No matter what season it is, mystery shopping is in the air. With a few clicks of the mouse, you can enter a whole new world of shopping opportunities, great discounts, product bargains and services for free. No need to envy those before you who discovered the benefits of mystery Secret shopping – there’s plenty for you, too. Get into a mystery shopping mood, and get a new perspective of your shopping area, or make best use of your Internet time.

Mystery shopping is a quickly-spreading fad that makes no difference between age, gender, experience or social background. Mystery shopping gives great shopping opportunities to anyone willing to take the challenge and ready to provide insightful feedback of their experiences. Getting into the mood of mystery shopping is easy, regardless of your jobs experience, education or social background, because we all have experience with shopping. Anything from food and hygiene products to electronic devices and hi-fi equipment – whatever is in your shopping preferences. You can shop products that you like to buy and have extensive experience with, or you can dive into brand new consumer areas and try something new.

Mystery shopping also provides you with tons of free products and services. Unlike any other job, mystery shopping doesn’t take you away from family and friends, but allows you to spend more quality time together. Going to amusement parks, movie theaters or dining out for free – it’s all possible with mystery shopping.

Even if you don’t like to travel and interact so much, mystery shopping is still a perfect match. You can do web shopping – preview movie trailers, play game demos, and evaluate pre-launch online products. You get paid for your consumer feedback even without leaving your home. Besides, you can combine doing online shopping with any other paid program – paid email, paid surveys or any other online activity that you don’t want to be taken away from. Your free time makes more sense when you can do mystery shopping either going to locations or shopping online. Just get quickly in the mystery shopping mood, and enjoy all the benefits that it has for you!

How to Take a Mystery Shopping Vacation

Mystery shopping is something that many people do to get some groceries, gas or to put a little bit of money in their pockets. My wife and I have been secret shoppers for quite some time and we do it on a regular basis. It not only gives us some pocket money, it helps us to go out to the movies and eat for free on a regular basis. We do things like bowling or miniature golf and don’t pay a penny. To us, doing this is just a way to be able to get out for an evening without having to hit the bank account. As it turns out, our desire to get out turned into something really nice for us when we decided to take a mystery shopping vacation.

We are members of several mystery shopping networks and we decided to see if we could pull off the ultimate secret shop trip. It took some planning in advance, and several hours of research and phone calls to our mystery shop representatives but we were able to lay out a plan that would get us away on a vacation for practically nothing.

First, I should mention that it was a working vacation. Even though we find secret shopping to be enjoyable, it does involve some work and you do need to fill out some evaluation forms. That being said, it is something that we enjoy doing, and we have been doing it long enough that it is really old hat to us. It’s natural to be nervous when you first start secret shopping, but we were well beyond that nervousness by this point.

With the help of our representatives, and the online network we were able to map out a route that included gas station shops at fairly regular intervals. Now, gas station shops are notoriously cheap, but we were able to put a little over 3 gallons of gas in our tank at every stop. SInce we were traveling for about 300 miles, we needed to stop 4 times on the way out and 4 on the way back. The total time involved was 2 hours, including the evaluation forms.

Once we were in the area, we had a series of shops lined up to provide us with some spending money and food. Most of our food came in the form of donut shops in the morning, grocery shops at lunch and then a restaurant in the evening. We ended up eating at 2 nice establishments while we were there, which was a nice bonus.

The best part of the trip was when we found out that there were 2 hotel shops available in the area. Even though we were staying for 5 days, we got to stay for 2 days free. The best part was that these were very nice hotels, and we probably would not have stayed in as nice of a hotel if it weren’t for the secret shop. We had a blast, secret shopping on vacation and enjoying ourselves the whole time.