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How Can I Make Myself a Favorite of Schedulers?

August 23, 2016 by Cathy Stucker

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Having great relationships with schedulers means you will be on their minds when they have jobs to fill. Here are some ways to be one of their favorite mystery shoppers:

Make your application complete. Answer every question. Use proper spelling, grammar and punctuation on your application. If you haven’t worked with them before, all they know about you is what they see on the application.

Be dependable. If you accept an assignment, do it. About 25% of the time, secret shoppers who accept jobs don’t complete them. Imagine having to do your job twice 25% of the time. You wouldn’t like it, and schedulers don’t appreciate it either.

If an emergency comes up and you have to cancel, Continue Reading

Mystery Shopper Jobs and Scheduler Emails

June 24, 2011 by Cathy Stucker

Are you fed up with emails about mystery shopper jobs such as this?

Hi! We have a mystery shop available for you. Log in to your account to learn more about this fun shop!

You go to the mystery shopping company website, log in to your account, click on Available Shops and discover that:

  1. the shop location is nowhere near you;
  2. it is a type of shop you do not like to do;
  3. the pay stinks;
  4. you must complete a test before you can even request the shop (with no guarantee you will get it);
  5. all of the above.

My policy? If a scheduler can not give me basic information about the shop in the email, I just delete it. Do it often enough and I will stop the emails or even deactivate myself from their database.

Schedulers, if you want me to work with you, you need to stop wasting my time. Give me a little more to go on.

In my opinion, a shop notification email should include at least:Continue Reading

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