Mystery shop strategy iny

[Joanne1974]

hi
I’ve signed up to a few mystery shopping companies, and I’ve realised that to make doing jobs worthwhile I need to get a few in the same location in the same day. But doing this is proving time consuming in its self.
I need to join some more companies.
Does any one have a routine when looking or taking missions / jobs.
Also I have just signed up with Helion which took ages (And I’ve given up filling out applications for today) they have some well paid tasks. Does any one have experience with them!
Thanks.

 

[AngelaMCGF]

There is a facebook group which is full of documentation that will help you. They have a full list of all the mystery shop companies and jobs are advertised there also. Its called Mystery Shoppers UK forum, its a great resource. I read on there also that there is a app that will plan you a route when you are doing more than one shop, which sounds like it maybe just what you are looking for.

 

[Joanne1974]

Thank you I will look at it.

 

[Jon]

hi
I’ve signed up to a few mystery shopping companies, and I’ve realised that to make doing jobs worthwhile I need to get a few in the same location in the same day. But doing this is proving time consuming in its self.
I need to join some more companies.
Does any one have a routine when looking or taking missions / jobs.
Also I have just signed up with Helion which took ages (And I’ve given up filling out applications for today) they have some well paid tasks. Does any one have experience with them!
Thanks.

Fair point you are making here and one of the main reasons that I dropped traditional mystery shopping in favour of mobile task based apps like Task360, Roamler etc because I can literally see on a map where all the jobs are and just accept them and hoover them up. Plus they all tend to pay a LOT more money for a lot less of your time!

 

[Andrew]

hi
I’ve signed up to a few mystery shopping companies, and I’ve realised that to make doing jobs worthwhile I need to get a few in the same location in the same day. But doing this is proving time consuming in its self.
I need to join some more companies.
Does any one have a routine when looking or taking missions / jobs.
Also I have just signed up with Helion which took ages (And I’ve given up filling out applications for today) they have some well paid tasks. Does any one have experience with them!
Thanks.

The big problem for me with Helion is that you can't auto assign jobs and they take ages to reply to emails. So many times I've put myself down to do a shop in a couple of days and not heard back from them until two weeks later. So I've never actually managed to do a job yet for them! If you're new to mystery shopping I'd strongly advice sticking with marketforce only for a couple of months. Download their app and keep checking that for jobs. Use it in conjunction with task 360 if you have an iPhone and you'll soon be earning a nice income. Roamler is good but fussy so I'd recommend moving on to that after a couple of months. If you haven't got an iPhone I'd recommend getting an iPhone 5s and tethering it your android phone. You'll find that it'll pay for itself after a couple of months doing task 360 jobs if you don't mind doing a bit of travel (you can offset the mileage you do if you're driving against your taxable earnings as well). After a couple of months doing that then I'd sign up for some of the other mystery shopper companies but are in mind that they are a LOT stricter than marketforce or task 360 are and it can knock your confidence a bit when you take a lot of time and effort to submit a report only to have it knocked back and payment refused.

 

[Andrew]

Fair point you are making here and one of the main reasons that I dropped traditional mystery shopping in favour of mobile task based apps like Task360, Roamler etc because I can literally see on a map where all the jobs are and just accept them and hoover them up. Plus they all tend to pay a LOT more money for a lot less of your time!

Couldn't agree with this more. And the more people who sign up to the task based apps and who do good quality work for them the more the work will shift away from traditional internet based mystery shopping companies to app based mystery shopping companies instead