🛍️ Life as a Mystery Shopper: How I Make Money Eating, Shopping, and Traveling! 💰

Have you ever seen influencers or bloggers or even celebrities getting paid to have fun, and you thought to yourself, I wish I could do that, but I'm too shy. Well, now you can. In this video, I'm going to give you an inside look of how I get paid to do fun stuff as a mystery shopper.

And in case you don't know what mystery shopping is, it's when you pretend like you're a normal, regular customer, and then you report back about your experience and you can get paid, get free products, or get to enjoy fun experiences in exchange for your review. Basically getting paid to be a professional foodie, shopaholic, and traveler. And make sure you stick around to the end, because I'm gonna share with you some of my favorite legit mystery shopping companies that will pay you to do fun stuff, including a mystery shopping app.

Now, without further ado, let's get shopping. As a single mom, I've uncovered a hidden treasure of opportunities to save money, get free food, enjoy incredible experiences, and get paid all at once. Mystery shopping is hands down my most fun side hustle.

Mystery shopping experiences can vary, but typically the process goes like this. Once you get an assignment, you either visit the business, call them, or even place an order. Yeah, they have food delivery shops too.

Then you'll do your assignment. On your assignment, you'll be evaluating different parts of your experience, which might include making a purchase, or if it's a hotel, you might evaluate the room service or the cleanliness of the room. Next, you report back to the mystery shopping company that hired you about your experience, and most of them will have an online questionnaire that you can fill out to make it easy for you.

Then the mystery shopping company will reimburse you after you submit your report, and these timeframes can vary depending on the company. Now, listen up. If you mess up your report where you leave out some really important information, then the mystery shopping company might have no choice but to stop your bag.

Wait, hold on, back it up. When we got a what, where, who, what Then the mystery shopping company might have no choice but to stop your bag and not pay you in order to help you avoid this. I created the Mystery Shopping Masterclass, and in it, I'm giving you a full roadmap of how to make the most money as a mystery shopper and how to reduce your mistakes to make sure you get your check.

And not only that, how to become a sought after shopper like I am, because a lot of times I'm not even contacting the mystery shopping companies to get my assignments. They actually reach out to me, and I'm not just talking about like a computer or a general email. No, these are real people behind the mystery shopping companies that are reaching out to me knowing that I'm a reliable shopper.

And they might say, Hey, Nikki, I have this assignment in your area and it needs to be done within the next couple days. Do you think you're available to do it So in that Mystery Shopping masterclass, I'm giving you exclusive information about how I got to that point and more, go ahead and scan that QR code, or click the link down in the description to join the masterclass. There are three popular reasons of why people like to get into mystery shopping, and they have their own missions that they like to accomplish when doing these mystery shops.

So let me tell you about them. Mission one, getting free food. A while back, I did a video called Five Hacks to Get Free Food When You're Broke.

That video was done in 2020, and once again, that video is one of the most popular videos on my channel, and even on my other channel, Nikki 4 Real,I have a video where I'm going around and I'm getting free food for my birthday, and people are really loving that video. So since y'all clearly have a love for free food, I'm going to tell you how I get free food as a mystery shopper. Here I am at a five star restaurant, and guess what I'm getting paid to enjoy that delicious and expensive meal.

I mean, it's a tough job. Somebody's gotta do it. The types of restaurants available for mystery shoppers can range from fast food to uppity restaurants where celebrities go.

I once had a mystery shop at a restaurant that Mariah Carey loves, and you know, Mimi is only doing high quality dining. Now, before we get into the next popular mission that mystery shoppers like to do, I wanna give you a quick reminder that I already dropped some awesome gems in this video, and I wanna keep being able to bring you content to help you live a first class lifestyle, but I can only do it if you guys help me out and continue to watch my videos, give feedback, comment like the video, and even share this video with people that you know and love because we are all dealing with the struggle, okay So if you can help somebody out and not just hoard the information, but also share it, then I would appreciate you for it. And I can keep bringing you this type of content because if I'm not getting the views, I can't keep creating the content.

And plus it works out in your favor because if you tell one of your friends how to become a mystery shopper, you know they can bring you on their missions too, right Yeah. You could bring your friends on your mystery shops. So even if you share it for selfish reasons, just make sure you share it now onto mission two, free clothes.

Mystery shopping isn't just about getting free bees, it's about giving feedback to companies about your experience as a customer and looking fabulous while doing it. In my seven plus years of experience as a mystery shopper, I've done plenty of retail store shops, and some of them don't even need you to make a purchase. So in case you think you have to spend money in order to be a mystery shopper, that is not always the case.

You may simply be assigned to take photos of store displays, and in a moment, I'm gonna tell you one of my favorite companies to give you these types of assignments. Mission three, free vacations as a single mom. Free hotel rooms come in handy for me because sometimes me and my daughter, we just need a change of atmosphere.

We wanna go out of town, and I don't wanna break my pockets to get a hotel room. So instead, I'll get a mystery shopping assignment for a hotel in an area that I wanna visit, and I can get reimbursed for the money that I spent on that trip. And some companies will also reimburse you for the gas money to get there and for the mileage.

And even if they don't reimburse you for it, it's a tax deduction because it is a business expense. Boom. And not only can mystery shops include elegant hotels, they can also include cruises.

One thing to be aware of is that there are a lot of mystery shopping scams out there, so you don't wanna fall victim to that. Just keep in the back of your mind that you should never be paying a company to become a mystery shopper for them. They're supposed to pay you not the other way around.

So to help you avoid scammers, here are a couple of my favorite legit mystery shopping companies. Number one Bestmark. Bestmark is a great mystery shopping company for beginners.

They were the first company I ever signed up with as a mystery shopper, and to this day, they are a go-to for me when I'm looking for mystery shops. The shops are typically pretty quick and the surveys aren't usually very long, and they pay by your choice of direct deposit, PayPal, or gift cards. Mystery shopping company number two BeMyEye, this one is an app, and they typically pay you to go on missions taking photos of displays in stores.

Most times you don't even have to talk to anybody, and you only have maybe a few questions to answer when you do those missions, BeMyEye pays their Shoppers through PayPal or Qiwi. I've never heard of Qiwi, so I'm going to stick with PayPal, but let me know in the comments if you've ever heard of Qiwi, so that we can all know what Qiwi is. I have no idea.

In addition to these two mystery shopping companies that I just named, there are plenty more mystery shopping companies that I use to get the full list of mystery shopping companies that I use, including the ones that pay you for luxury hotels days. Then make sure you join the Mystery Shopping Masterclass again by clicking the QR code or clicking the link down in the description. Now, for those of you that stuck around to this point, I appreciate you.

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Now, if you are looking for more ways to make some awesome money, then I suggest you watch this playlist. I'll see you in the next one. Bye y'all.