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Strategies for Staying Open

As if the labor shortage weren’t already aggravated by the so-called Great Resignation and the droves of baby-boomers retiring, you can add a giant spike of employees calling out sick recently. Fueled by the Omicron surge and likely combined with other seasonal maladies, many businesses are struggling to field enough…
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How Mystery Shoppers Score You

The Brandt Group specializes in co-developing with you your business’s customer experience, which is done by tailoring a thoughtful customer service with quality salesmanship and branding. Focusing on these facets will ensure long-term customer loyalty and enhanced profits, which will propel your business into years of long-term success. To accomplish…
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The Trust Economy

Reputation is everything. It encompasses every aspect of your business, from the quality of your products to the care you show your customers. It’s word-of-mouth, and it’s the number of stars on Google Reviews, Yelp, or whatever else. Perhaps most of all, it’s a measure of your business’s trustworthiness to…
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The Pact Between Shopper and Client

The relationship between mystery shoppers and clients is sacred. That may sound like hyperbole, but we’re actually being serious. Consider what’s at stake for the clients: their futures depend on making the right decisions, and their employees depend upon them for their livelihoods. Clients come to mystery shopping companies like…
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Why Shop with The Brandt Group?

You have a lot of choices as a mystery shopper, from the kinds of assignments you’ll want to accept, to when you’re available to complete them. Among those important choices is which mystery-shopping networks you’ll want to join; so why would you choose The Brandt Group as one of them?…
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Becoming a Great Mystery Shopper

As you gain experience as a mystery shopper, you’ll want to find other ways to improve your skills and develop into an even more valuable member of your mystery shopping network. After all, your work represents you on some level, so we understand why you want to take pride in…
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Advice for New Mystery Shoppers

The Brandt Group welcomes you to the exciting and rewarding world of mystery shopping! Your participation will help improve the customer service, products, and services offered by businesses in your community. Take satisfaction in knowing that your opinions really do matter. Client businesses don’t contract with mystery shopping companies to…
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Why Comments Matter in Mystery Shopping

The bulk of mystery-shop surveys are Yes/No questions, sometimes sprinkled with a couple opinion scales (rate the customer service 1 to 5, for example). These allow you to capture the raw data, to quantify an experience so you can score it. You can ask whether an employee introduced him or…
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Workplace Harassment

Harassment is an uncomfortable subject for business owners. No one wants his or her employees—or customers, for that matter—to feel violated or objectified. Because most of us live by the golden rule, that we ought to treat others as we want to be treated, we feel a deep empathy towards…
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