@maggiemay028 wrote:
I didn't realize we considered each other as competitors! Maybe more of co-workers?
Lesson learned.
@nslinhar wrote:
I am of the school that if I am in your territory, I do not care. This is my business and is, to me, considered survival of the fittest. I will give advice and listen but no one, schedulers excepted, will know where I currently shop.
@nslinhar wrote:
Where did I state we were enemies?
Stating my client list would give away my location to a competetior, not an enemy.
@roflwofl wrote:
Oh - and I applaud you not naming your location. I did very early when I first started to post and all it got me was PMs from people who knew better but wanted to ask me for information about shopping in my area.. One even wanted me to meet her and give her my list of companies, along with a list of the companies's clients and their pay schedules. She argued that I had already done the work, so why should she have to? She got quite snippy when I explained it would be many ICA violations. When I said I wasn't going to hand over all my hard work to a competitor, she called me "selfish" and asked why she should have to re-invent the wheel. I said I didn't invent the wheel but I built the wagon using all to tools and equipment available on the forum. No need to re-invent the wheel - it's all here free, but you have to build your own wagon. Then she called me ugly names.
I will never again identify my shopping area. I wish I had been smart enough not to do it ever.
@maggiemay028 wrote:
I didn't realize we considered each other as competitors! Maybe more of co-workers?
Lesson learned.
Being your so glad to share your shops, let's hear some names as the OP asked for...by the way, she also asked a year ago and was told, not her first pony race.@Shop-et-al wrote:
@maggiemay028 wrote:
I didn't realize we considered each other as competitors! Maybe more of co-workers?
Lesson learned.
For some people, mystery shopping is serious business. Some shoppers have built up actual businesses with significant revenues.
I am not one of them. I appreciate them and the amount of work that has contributed to their business successes. They worked and learned and earned.
I welcome shoppers to my area, but the area itself is nothing like well-known and popular parts of California. But you are welcome to shop here.
As for co-workers, occasionally shoppers team up for designated projects. Each shopper is responsible for their own portion of work. The rest of the time, we are independent contractors who operate separately from others.
Only in a broad sense are we co-working. We are part of a large industry and may perform similar tasks. We do what our contracts state we will do.
@maggiemay028 wrote:
I didn't realize we considered each other as competitors! Maybe more of co-workers?
Lesson learned.
That's amusing since I referred her to Intellishop as a sort of joke.@johnb974 wrote:
Intelli Shop, Market Force and IPSOS are good shops.
@iShop123 wrote:
That's amusing since I referred her to Intellishop as a sort of joke.@johnb974 wrote:
Intelli Shop, Market Force and IPSOS are good shops.
@Irene_L.A. wrote:
The ICA really has ONE rule which is not to share MSC name and client, one rule, let's all shake hands and abide by that. Happy shopping and remember those willing to put in the work, last in this industry.
@walesmaven wrote:
john,
We are here to promote professionalism in our industry. That does NOT include violating ICAs or the main rule set down by the owner of the forum. If you want your MS business to be a success, here is what I will share to help you; sign up with 100-150 MSCs; do enough shops to test what suits you best and do them to a high standard and on time; that will teach you which 10-20 MSCs' job boards you need to watch; it will also insure that you begin to get offers from schedulers that never see the job boards.