Mystery Shopping Tips

This is a guest post written by Tabitha, a member of the msfreedom.org forum. Also, please note that any tax information is not guaranteed to be accurate (You know I have to say that!)

I see a bunch of newbies asking for tips about MSIng so I decided to put all my tips in one place. Many relate to tax time and record keeping and some are year round goodies.  Continue reading ‘8 Tips to Make Mystery Shopping Easier’

Sassie is a web-based reporting software that mystery shopping companies use to schedule assignments, and receive reports from their shoppers. There are a lot of companies that use the SassieShop system…and this works to your advantage because almost all of the applications for these companies are nearly identical. Unfortunately, SassieShop isn’t allowed to say who those companies are. Lucky for you, I am allowed. So, without further ado, here is a list of over 40 mystery shopping company’s hard-to-find urls that take you directly to sites waiting for you to sign up for to be a mystery shopper. Continue reading ‘The Secret List of SassieShop Companies’

One of the most important skills you can always improve as a mystery shopper is your ability to write.

High quality writing is almost guaranteed instantly put you at the top of the list for any mystery shopping company. Which means they will fall all over themselves to give you more assignments.
Here’s why: Top quality writing is worth a lot of money to mystery shopping companies. They need to impress their clients with the quality of their mystery shoppers, and they often do that by highlighting one or two outstanding reports.

On the other hand, if the writing in a report is poor or sloppy, then it is costing the mystery shopping company money because they have to spend valuable time fixing the report.

The writing in your report is the product both you and the mystery shopping company are selling. Continue reading ‘Two EASY Rules for Better Writing’

I receive a lot of emails from people getting started with mystery shopping.

A lot of the time they thank me for the help I’ve given them.

But just as often, they ask how they can get more assignments, or get better paying assignments, or get assignments at a particular store.

All of those problems are fixed by just ONE simple solution.

And that is applying to a lot of mystery shopping companies.

Here’s why: Continue reading ‘The Worst Mistake Any New Mystery Shopper Could Possibly Make’