Goals are important because they help you identify where you want to go on your career quest. They also provide you with a way to measure your accomplishments. More important, however, are the attitude and determination required to keep up with these goals to ensure a successful career.
This can be directly applied to mystery shopping. Secret shoppers must establish goals when it comes to their shopping career to guarantee more success in the future. How many assignments would you ideally like to have each month? Are there particular employers you would like to work with? What are some new strategies you would like to try? There are many questions you can ask yourself to establish what your goals are. Once you’ve done that, the next step is finding ways to keep up with these goals to make sure you are always moving toward them.
Usually, the right track to achieving goals requires a lot of discipline and determination. Mystery shoppers must practice good discipline from the moment they sign up for a mystery shopping assignment to moment they submit their completed reports. Discipline would entail things like having the right kind of attitude and being professional when dealing with the mystery shopping companies, the establishments, the shopping experience, the employees, and the report writing.
To help you keep up with your mystery shopping goals, here are a few helpful tips:
- Write down all of your goals and choose one or two that are the most important. Focus on these two goals first. Spreading yourself thin by trying to accomplish too many goals at once, especially if they do not complement each other, will only complicate your mindset and make you lose your focus and drive. It is important to break your goals down into segments so you can fully commit yourself to achieving them.
- Dedicate one or two hours each day to working on your goals and do not allow yourself to become sidetracked by distractions. Distractions will only make you lose focus and waste your time. To help you, separate your work life from your personal life by doing things such as having separate work and personal e-mail accounts.
- Check for mystery shopping assignments every day. If one mystery shopping company cannot give you as many assignments as you would like to have, sign up with more companies until you achieve the work flow you desire.
- Accept only assignments that are logistically feasible and economically worthy for you. Assignments that do not fit those criterion will waste your time, which could be used doing more important things.
- Always equip yourself with the right tools to help you reach your goals faster. A calendar and GPS unit are very useful for a mystery shopper to ensure you always arrive on time.
Mystery shoppers need to identify what they are aiming for and then work hard to achieve it, so they can create a successful future and enjoy more earnings.
Angela Megasko
President and CEO
Market Viewpoint, LLC
995 Fairview Road, Suite 202
Glenmoore, PA 19343
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