Market Force, at www.MarketForce.com, is a company which uses something they call “customer intelligence” to help multi location business owners please their customers and orient performance in an efficient and profitable way.
Market Force defines customer intelligence as a “new, emerging methodology” for insight into your customers’ experiences in your store, as well information on the stores themselves, and your finances, and most importantly, how the three interact.
They claim that they will use advanced analytics to determine what store level changes will impact your finances the most. As part of their intelligence gathering system, Market Force employs Secret Shoppers and Certified Field Associates on a paid, part time, flexible basis.
The Mystery Shopping Opportunity
Mystery shoppers are assigned to go to a wide variety of retailers – such as gas stations, grocery stores, restaurants, or banks – to basic shopping tasks and then report back on the customer service, product selection, cleanliness, or other specific information sought by the assignment.
Mystery shoppers are either paid for the assignment they complete, or they are reimbursed for the purchases they made while on the assignment. For example, if your assignment is to evaluate service at a restaurant, often you will be reimbursed for your meal instead of paid for completing the assignment.
Market Force also employs what they call Certified Field Associates (CFA), who are different from mystery shoppers because they perform different types of assignments, such as checking store displays, whether a specific item is in stock, or head counting in movie theaters.
CFAs are paid for all assignments they complete successfully, as well as potentially qualifying for reimbursement for tickets and concessions for certain movie theater assignments. With Market Force, you can sign up to be both a mystery shopper and a CFA.
What to Know
If you are interested in signing up as a mystery shopper or CFA with Market Force, you’ll have to 20 years old with at least a high school education, as well as a computer with high speed internet access. Some jobs will also require you to have a digital watch and/or a digital camera.
It is free to apply to Market Force, and your application will be evaluated within 48 hours of submission. If you are accepted, you will be contacted by email.
But it is important to note that if you are accepted, you will not be an employee of Market Force. Rather you will be acting as an Independent Contractor, which has different tax requirements that you should know about beforehand.
Appreciate any feedback.
Started to smell a rat that they just want my details in order to sell on to third parties rather than my opinions on things.
The website is simply not geared as a successful entrprise should be - I am leaving ASAP and hopefully removing all information I have left.
My first mystery shopper review is of this company and their processes - leave well alone!! Enough said!!
No complaints - not a scam.
Have not received emails indicative of Market Force selling my info.
I have earned over $300.00 - average of about $15 and up as an hourly wage - completing shops in my spare time. I have also been reimbursed for any money spent for services/goods/meals, which means I have earned a wage and been reimbursed for meals necessary for the shop.
I recommend Market Force as a way to add income while setting your own hours.
I would not recommend this as a full time job, but for an extra $150-$200 per month it is defiantly worth a look.
When you accept an assignment you receive a letter to present to the management on site to allow you into the movie free of charge. There are covert assignments also where you purchase your ticket in cash and they reimburse you at time of payment. The assignment sheets they send you are VERY specific on what they are looking for. It might not seem like it on the basic assignment screen, but once they send you download the paperwork it gets into detail as to your assignment.
I signed up with them a while ago, but haven't done an assignment yet. A few of the listed assignments are vague as to what they entail and how you go about doing them. For instance, if you are checking trailers or anything that requires you in the actual movie theater, do you have to purchase your own ticket or does the theater just allow you to go in and do the checking?
Any insight of actual work assignments would be appreciated.
Thanks!