Social Media

I read with interest the thread on the blogs of Identifying and How To Handle a Mystery Shopper. That brought up a tangent in my mind. All of the mystery companies seem to be on Social Media, and want us to "Like Them." I avoid their pages because I don't want to help someone identify me as a Mystery Shopper. Has anyone "Liked" a MSC Social Media page? Why or why not?

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No. Never will.

Makes no sense to me. You are going to plaster your face on their site and your "mystery" is not much of a mystery anymore

Will never follow, like, or even look at their social media.

One, it takes the mystery out of mystery shopping
Two, work is work, personal is personal. I keep them separate.

If I wanted to follow MSC, I would build a fake profile for that.

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Mike T
Looking for shops in Western Canada

"Life is good because the alternative is forever "

Not me. Not ever. I will remain a mystery.

Asking your vendors to endorse you is in poor taste, IMO.

"All we want are the facts." Sgt. Joe Friday

Absolutely not. But then I am among the 2%? 5%? 10%? of the people who are not on Facebook. I have better and more important things to do than exercise my thumbs on my smart phone. The only social media I am on is this forum and Linked In. The prime purpose of both is business.

Maybe I am and old Poot

. I consider the entire "liking" of pages that I do not genuinely like to be superficial and pedantic. The only reason they want you to "like" them is so that they look better and will get more shoppers. Now, having said all that gob. If you have a genuine good experience, then DO go like them because it is genuine. Otherwise, they are beggars looking to look good. IMHO, of course.

I have no intention of "liking" a MSC company on any social media. 1) I do not intend identifying my myself to companies or my friends as a mysery shopper. 2) I have no intention of helping the MSC recruit my competition.

Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008

I learned about this type of mystery shopping when a "friend" posted a "like" for Marketforce on his wall. I'm sure I have taken hundreds of his jobs over the years as he is from a small town north of me that happens to have a mall with tons of jobs in it. I happen to be in that area a lot and pick up a lot of those shops.
Thankfully, he is not someone I actually know.

On the other hand, one MSC has an invitation-only secret Facebook group that I personally find helpful. Of course, it lets you see your
competition but I have not had an issue with that so far.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/11/2015 02:00PM by whiterosie.

Not liking any MSCs on social media. This is business, not social.

Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel

Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.

I benefit from some great networking on social media, so I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Part of the reason I am offered a lot of work, I think, is because I have become more friendly with the schedulers and company owners, building relationships with them on social media. In an industry where we are only as good as our word and our work, those relationships are two-way streets.

You can set your Facebook profile's privacy settings up so it does not show the pages you've liked.

How to make your page likes private: [www.facebook.com]

How to create Lists on Facebook: [www.facebook.com]

However, because anything I post or comment about on a public page or group shows up in the feed, I'm selective about where I post. You can also create Lists, such as Shedulers or Company Owners, and post status updates viewable only by those groups. of course, nothing is foolproof and you should never consider something posted "privately" as truly private. Common sense rules.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/12/2015 09:36PM by TechSavvy.

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