Mystery shoppers are invaluable for providing an objective and unbiased view of customer service and business quality. Find out how they can benefit your organisation.
What is a Mystery Shopper?
Mystery shoppers are individuals who are hired to visit stores and shops as customers, and then report back on their experience. This can include things like the quality of the customer service, the appearance of the store, and how easy it is to find what you’re looking for. Mystery shoppers can be employed by companies to assess how well their employees are doing their jobs and how honest they are, or they can be hired by individual customers who want to get a better idea of what a specific store is like before they make a purchase.
Think mystery shoppers are only for retail businesses? Think again! Mystery shoppers can offer benefits to a variety of businesses, including restaurants, service providers and more. Read on to learn more about the many benefits of using a mystery shopper!
6 Benefits of Mystery Shopping
Get a clear picture of employee behavior – The findings from your mystery shopping study will reveal who among the employees at different levels in a company has poor or good performance. This information can be used to pinpoint problems with individual workers so they don’t spread further down chain, leading towards increased efficiency and lower costs for both you as well as those being supervised over. Mystery shoppers can gather some of this most precise data on employee performance, which could help make decision-making easier for the managers
Be better than the competition – Mystery shopping allows you to evaluate your competition by examining their everyday operations and employee conduct. You’ll know what makes them unique, which can help with marketing campaigns or designing better customer service policies for yourself in order beat the competition.
Quickly improve efficiency – When mystery shoppers are sent into stores to monitor service quality, they do not have any preconceived notions of what good customer experience for that specific store looks like. This way the truth can be measured and anything less than perfection will show up as a lacking in some regard. Such detailed feedback can easily and quickly help you improve the efficiency of the business.
Usually, these obligations would fall on individual store managers, but unfortunately because they know so much about their own stores, they may have developed unconscious biases, negatively affecting their judgement. Luckily, this isn’t something you would have to worry about when using mystery shoppers.
Improve Compliance – Mystery shoppers are often the only way to get an accurate picture of how well a company complies with certain standards. You may know what’s going on in your locations, but hiring someone who has visited each one will give you more insight and trustworthiness than just relying upon second-hand accounts from employees. Mystery Shopping helps you track compliance throughout your company. You might have a semblance of what’s happening, but an outside perspective from someone who has visited your stores first-hand will provide more insight and trustworthy feedback for improving business practices.
Fix the small problems early on – If you want to stay on top of your game, it’s important that every aspect is taken care of. One way you can do this is by hiring mystery shoppers. With a mystery shopper, you can discover problems before they escalate. This is helpful because it helps prevent customers from reaching the point of making a complaint and also gives your business an advantage over others in fixing minor issues early on instead of waiting until things get worse!
A customer’s viewpoint – Mystery shopping allows you to see your business through the eyes of a consumer, which could provide valuable feedback and insight. In addition, mystery shoppers are unaware about how the employees work in the company so they will not hesitate in providing constructive or negative comments which is perfect for improving business practices!
Clients we have worked with
Mystery shopping is an invaluable tool that businesses can use to evaluate customer service and quality of work. Our clients, which include some major European retailers, trust us with accurate data about their customers experiences so they know if there are any improvements needed in order to improve.
We offer a variety of services that can help you improve your customer service and quality assurance. Whether it be through mystery shoppers or other means, we’re here to provide the information needed for informed decisions about how best operate in order increase profits while maintaining high standards!
Partner With Titan Security Today
If you have a retail business in the high-end market, we can help. We’ve been in this industry for over 20 years and boast a roster of mystery shoppers who are ready to provide feedback on your customer service skills or assess how well your store is merchandised. Contact us today so that we can schedule an appointment with one of our professionals to review the quality of your operation. The benefits from these assessments will be worth it – do not hesitate!