Secret shoppers are people who visit businesses posing as customers, evaluate the service they receive, and provide feedback to the company that hires them. Business owners use these reports to evaluate their employees' performance. Making use of the feedback they ensure that their employees practice good selling techniques and provide quality services to their customers.

Secret shoppers visit stores, restaurants, banks, salons, movie theaters, hotels and other businesses. They function as undercover agents or spies. Their job is to act like a regular customer while gathering information about the location's cleanliness, the service provided by the staff and other issues for the business owner

Secret shoppers get paid for providing customer service feedback to the management or business owners. Businesses find that it makes better business sense to hire secret shoppers than have employees provide this service. The main reason why secret shoppers are able to give effective feedback is that it is impossible to distinguish them from other shoppers. So the interaction that they report will be an actual event that could have happened with any shopper. A similar interaction cannot be expected if it is undertaken by an employee instead of a secret shopper.

Secret shopping is not a way for the shopper to make easy money. It is an enjoyable way to make extra money working part-time or even spare-time. The flexible schedules of secret shopping allows assignments to be fit into any schedule. Anyone, whether employed, self-employed, retired, a student or an at-home mom can take up secret shopping assignments.

Secret shoppers may be male or female, may belong to any age group and any walk of life. What is needed is good communication skills, good observation powers and the ability carry the role to perfection without giving oneself away.

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