E-book Category: Business, Investing, Manuals
E-book Title: Start Your Own Mystery Shopping Business!
Author: Avril Harper
Book Description: Think of what you'll learn now as the other side of the coin, the brighter side, the side offering far bigger and better rewards than becoming a mere mystery shopper.
Take a step back, look at the bigger picture, imagine yourself not only getting paid to shop and do all those other exciting things, like playing golf and flying abroad free of charge. Imagine you have first pick of the very best, most enjoyable, most profitable assignments, you can shop all day if you wish, sampling only goods and services you'll really enjoy, not what someone else chooses for you. It's Heads You Win, Tails You Win, Too! Once you've realized how easy and enjoyable life is as a mystery shopper, you'll be keen to get more jobs, in different shopping areas, with greater variety of take home goods and other great perks.
Today you're going to discover how to start your own mystery shopping business!
With the real money going to those running the business, mystery shopping offers great potential to anyone contemplating a local or more widespread operation, in their spare-time, or full-time, and you'll be amazed how easy it is to be up and running and turning good profits soon. Unsurprisingly, Oprah Winfrey featured mystery shopping as a uniquely satisfying career, in high demand by millions of potential customers, and growing more profitable daily! The business is very new in most parts of the world where only a handful of companies operate, mainly in larger towns and cities, and invariably targeting big-time business corporations, while neglecting smaller, local firms most needing their service.
That's an awfully big gap in the market! An awful lot of business going to waste!
You can plug the gap by operating a mystery shopping business in your area with just two or three clients and a few well paid assignments each month.
You can target most areas of commerce, such as shops and supermarkets, garages and hairdressers, banks and building societies, or you might consider specializing and set your sites on one small group, such as family run hotels and boarding houses, seaside cafes, amusement arcades, doctors' surgeries and photographic studios.
Specializing gives more than a safe market niche, it allows you to quickly gain expertise in your chosen field. You might even choose work in areas you enjoy, doing things you'd choose to do anyway, even without getting paid. You might focus on golf or computer games, or spend your time windsurfing, visiting stately homes, watching video films or dancing 'til dawn. No matter what sector they're in, all business owners need unbiased evaluation of their operation to maintain their competitive edge. Clients stand to gain far more in terms of increased profits, customer goodwill and employee satisfaction than mere cost of your service to them. So it's no surprise to hear a satisfied customer is a customer for life, someone who will use your service regularly as well as recommending you to other non-competing firms.
Rewards in starting your own business are excellent, far exceeding earnings and perks of the average mystery shopper.
Imagine, for example, customers pay you $75 per shop plus expenses for regular weekly assignments. That's $300, plus expenses, from one client, involving just two or three hours work each month. Not to mention the free food, drink, film shows or other fabulous free business perks.
Find just one new client each week and in less than one month you're banking more than $1,200, all for a few hours easy enjoyable work, simply shopping, and recording and processing a few simple reports to your growing client database.
Let's look at what makes mystery shopping such an easy business to start: - No office or special business premises required, the entire operation can be run from home.
- No need to employ staff with all the administrative headaches and hassles commonly involved. Already experienced freelance mystery shoppers can be hired as and when required, or you can carry out all assignments yourself or get family members involved.
- Low start up costs. All you need is a telephone, some business stationery, and a few pounds for advertising your business. With a few regular clients on board, future business comes from referrals and repeat assignments.
- Overheads are low, usually just travel expenses, stationery, postage, fax and Internet communications for submitting client reports.
- You set your own hours and all decisions and choices are yours.
- You get to eat and stay in hotels and holiday resorts as part of the job.
- You make a big difference to how business functions and the way customers are treated.
- High profit potential for even small scale operations.
Now consider the prospects of starting your own mystery shopping and market research company (that's right, there's more to this business than shopping, including carrying out polls and surveys, organizing focus groups, distributing free samples, and more). You'll learn about all those other things in The Ultimate Guide to Starting Your Own Mystery Shopping Business.
Here's something else worth considering!
If you tried to start the business yourself, without guidance and ready-made business documentation, you'd probably spend months organizing your office, studying employment and hiring laws, having lawyers draft legal documents and contracts, learning how to advertise profitably, and much more.
You'd have to research the business, study the opposition, learn what makes rival companies tick, find out who they work for, what they charge, how and where they find the most experienced freelance mystery shoppers, where are the best places to advertise (competing companies will have spent fortunes testing places to advertise until now they know exactly how and where to promote without ever wasting money on unproductive promotions).
How much would all that cost you? Too much to contemplate? And here's the biggest shock - there's no guarantee it will work!
So how would a completely ready-to-go mystery shopping business package appeal to you? What if it included every document you need to run the business? What if you had hundreds of proven tips and techniques at your disposal to turn to whenever you need help? Wouldn't that be better than learning it all by experience, more professional and less threatening than learning by costly trial and error and invariably losing clients along the way?
And if you could have your business up and running and earning high profits in a few short weeks, would you consider a $49.99 investment worthwhile? Let's see what you get for this value-packed, one-time investment: A Complete Training Manual 160+ pages of step-by-step instructions for starting and running your business, from choosing a business name to finding your first few clients to advertising and marketing for bigger, more regular assignments, on to invoicing, promoting your business online, and much more. PDF Format. More... | 
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