Evening Hotel Parking Lot Audits
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I also read this one....and yep, you read it right 
Wow. $2.50 or $4 per location regardless of number of leads, and $0 if there are no leads. I think I know who's getting the better end of this deal and it's not the shopper. (Except for some dishonest shoppers willing to report only one lead per location, and shift the leads over to cover the locations they traveled to that have no leads.)
Better pricing scheme, if they really want quality work: $4 per location for making the trip and providing POV. $2.50 for the first 4 leads at a location, then $5 for each lead after that. $1.50 bonus per location for doing 10+ locations. The leads have to be worth way more than this to the end client.
Better pricing scheme, if they really want quality work: $4 per location for making the trip and providing POV. $2.50 for the first 4 leads at a location, then $5 for each lead after that. $1.50 bonus per location for doing 10+ locations. The leads have to be worth way more than this to the end client.
I would price it the other way around....a larger $ amt to get over there. Unless these hotels are right next to each other and you can literally park at the hotel free and walk down the street to all of them they need to cover travel time, expenses and parking for each one whether or not you find a commercial vehicle. In my city most large hotels do not have free parking anywhere close so if you do not get paid at all you have spent at least 1/2 hour getting there, something for parking, time to check the lot etc. Then the first few leads should be at a higher $ value...the $ amt reimbursed can go down with extra leads as finding the first few cars is probably more labor intensive then just counting them up once you spot them.
Sandy's right. Choose wisely and pick locations where there are many and don't go out of your way for one because it may not pan out.
Kim
Unless they reimburse 30 min parking, the answer is no. In my area the hotels start at $12+ for 30 min and a few require the full flat fee $50+ regardless. Plus, driving up and down the narrow pathway, I just do not think it is worth it.
Me thinks we would look like we were scoping out vehicles for break-ins or something else. Who drives around a hotel parking lot at night looking at vehicles besides a mystery shopper and a thief?
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Yes, It does make you wonder the client's purpose here. Also, who is the client.
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I think this may work for people such as myself who reside in a large metro area. Our hotels are typically "stacked". However, I do feel that they are a little cheap with the fees. If these hotels are attempting to acquire "cold leads" from the info. provided then these particular shops will have to be completed at night. They are obviously targeting "the working man" companies and we all know the average male laborer does not have the standard 8a-5p...at least my oilfield hubby who lives in numerous hotels 25 days per month does not!
In my area, it seemed to be various hotel chains but the MSC is About Face.
Hi, I applied and got this assignment,typically it was severe thunderstorms when I set out to do this. What got me real mad was after 15 mins driving around on a wild goose chase two of the locations were no longer hotels so I decided for the low pay and the fact that I looked suspicious staring at vehicles in a parking lot I quit.
"This audit requires you to visit your assigned locations in order to capture data on business vehicles parked in the lot during the evening. "
Uh, am I the only one who thinks this is more than a bit dodgy? What data? What business vehicles? The phone numbers off the sides of the hotel shuttles? Or license plates of the Mercedes Benz parked by the guy in a suit?
And "during the evening"? Are we setting these businessmen up for blackmail of some kind? What are they going to do with these "leads"? Send them a flyer for a competing hotel?
Sounds kinda creepy to me.
Uh, am I the only one who thinks this is more than a bit dodgy? What data? What business vehicles? The phone numbers off the sides of the hotel shuttles? Or license plates of the Mercedes Benz parked by the guy in a suit?
And "during the evening"? Are we setting these businessmen up for blackmail of some kind? What are they going to do with these "leads"? Send them a flyer for a competing hotel?
Sounds kinda creepy to me.
Time to build a bigger bridge.
dspeakes, they want company branded vehicles with the company name, any phone numbers, address website, etc. It's About Face and they aren't sketchy. They probably do them in the evening because most people check into a hotel then go out to eat, so after 8 pm they return to the hotel (unless they go to the bar and drink until midnight) and are parked at the hotel until the morning when they go do some work somewhere. The pay does suck and I was going to do small grouping of them that are only a few miles from my house, but my husband threw a fit about me driving around in hotel parking lots after dark, and taking a risk of not finding any leads and not getting paid--he said it was stupid. He's right.
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