Mystery shopper to assess the performance of sales personnel

Retail chains have a large staff. Keeping track of everyone's work is a difficult task. But doable! The mystery shopper service will help you monitor how well your staff perform their duties.

Validation accomplishes the following objectives:

  • Working Discipline Level.
  • Appearance of employees while at work.
  • The speed and quality of the counselors' work.
  • Quality of goods (availability of goods and price tags, expiration dates).
  • Whether the promotional item is present on the shelves.
  • How well the product display is done.
  • Maintaining cleanliness and order in the sales area.

A mystery shopper or a mystery visitor is an employee specially selected according to specified parameters, who acts according to a certain instruction. After it is done, the mystery shoper provides the customer with an analytical report, photo, audio or video recordings.

Assessing the quality of service in a store

Mystery shopping" research is conducted by our agency in various retail chains:

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Grocery stores
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Hardware and electronics stores
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Clothes and shoes
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Children's stores
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Beauty stores
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Jewelry stores

Typically, standard parameters are checked in each store: appearance, cleanliness, politeness of sellers, compliance with corporate style. Also, each store has its own peculiarities, which should be paid close attention to when assessing the quality of trade service.

In a grocery store, it is the relevance of expiration dates, availability of price tags, and freshness of products. When checking salespeople, it is assessed how prompt and polite they are. When checking the cashier, attention is paid to the following nuances: whether the cashier punches the check, whether the cashier offers to participate in the promotion.

In stores with clothes it is important to check: whether the consultant brings the necessary things to the fitting room at the customer's request, whether he does it kindly.

In stores with technology and electronics, it is mandatory to assess the knowledge of salespeople: whether they understand the assortment presented in the store, whether they know the latest products, how professionally they conduct consultations.

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How it works

To maximize your online turnover, it's important to make your employees effective salespeople. This will require several steps:

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Staff performance evaluation

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Identifying reserves for strengthening "selling acumen"

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Organization of an effective training system for employees

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Conducting staff training

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Assessing the quality of the results achieved

In the presence of superiors, all salespeople try to be as efficient as possible in their work:

  • - keep an eye on customer flow in the store,
  • - are doing counseling,
  • - show courtesy to all visitors.

In order to evaluate the quality of service objectively, it is best to utilize the services of a undercover agent.

A mystery shopper enters a store disguised as an ordinary customer. And when there are no managers or administrators in the hall, it is possible to see the real picture. Thanks to a mystery shopper, you look at your business through the eyes of the client.

How a mystery shopper test is conducted

Mystery shopper marketing research consists of several stages

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Preparatory stage

The script, legends, questionnaires are developed and agreed upon.

Casts mystery visitors according to the company's target audience; prepares for the specifics of the audit.

Assigns agents to a targeted program.

An online project is being prepared.

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Conducting an audit

Mystery visitors make visits to the location being inspected and conduct assessment work as assigned.

Questionnaires are being filled out.

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Analyzing the results

Processing of questionnaires by managers.

Providing a reporting package: questionnaires, audio recordings, photographs and other reporting agreed in advance.

The following tools are used in each check

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Visiter’s cover up stories
Our experts analyze and approve the most important aspects for the evaluation of each specific company. All your wishes are taken into account: check-ins on specific dates, mandatory evaluation of certain points of sale, ordering certain dishes in a restaurant, visiting a bar at a specific time, and others at your discretion.
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Cover up stories of visits
Several standard behavioral patterns of real visitors are taken as a basis for a visit scenario.
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Questionnaire
We develop an individual questionnaire specifically for each project. In case of a multi-point audit, we divide the questionnaire into blocks and blocks into sections.

What's on the form

When conducting a multi-point audit, the questionnaire is divided into blocks, blocks into sections. Blocks can be changed depending on the chain to be checked, the purpose and objectives of the research in each particular audit.

Meaningful blocks of the questionnaire
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  • Sales consultant evaluation block
  • Cashier evaluation unit
  • Evaluation unit for the hall and the outside group
  • Block of the overall impression of the retail network

Casting of performers

Selecting a performer is an important step.

In accordance with the portrait of a potential visitor to the store and the desires of the client, the characteristics of people suitable for the role of a mystery shopper are determined.

Our agency has an extensive base of experienced mystery shoppers. All performers undergo audio training on the peculiarities and specifics of each project. We provide mystery shoppers with all the necessary materials: questionnaires, legends, instructions, addresses.

Before the check in, mystery guests are quizzed to monitor their ability to understand the information they need to participate in the project.
Throughout the course of the audit, the coordinator assists the mystery shopper: coordinating, guiding, answering questions that arise

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Creating an online project. Analysis and report of the study

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The online reporting system creates a project for each client.

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Personal accounts are prepared, accesses are set up depending on the area of responsibility of the client representatives.

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The address program is loaded.

How the results of audits are processed

After completion, the reports are entered into the online system, and the questionnaires are sent to the validation department specialists for verification.

Each report is reviewed in several stages:

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Checking to make sure all fields on the form are filled out and that all necessary artifacts (audio, photos, receipts, etc.) are present.

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Checking whether the provided data corresponds to the audio recording

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Checking for spelling, logical and punctuation errors

Once all validation steps have been passed, reports in the system become available for viewing by designated client representatives.

What is included in the final reporting

At the end of the survey, a summary table of results is compiled for all chain hotels and employees.
On the basis of the analysis of the data received, the specialists of the Project Department form a final analytical report on the results of audits

The summarized report includes:

  • General information about the project carried out
  • Assessment of service level by predetermined blocks
  • Integrated results
  • Correlation analysis
  • General conclusions
  • Information on "points of growth"
  • Recommendation box

What are the benefits of a Mystery Visitor check?

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Sales growth and profit increase

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Customer focus assessment

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Increasing the flow of regular and new customers

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Level control services

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Analysis of companies competitors

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Motivation for employees

Mystery shopper services in a retail chain - a proven opportunity to maximize sales force efficiency

Conducting mystery shopper research on a regular basis is:

  • -Supervision of personnel work regardless of geography
  • -Maintaining service at a high level
  • -Tracking strengths and weaknesses in staff performance
  • -Timely identification and correction of errors
  • -Continuous increase in profits
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Why you should contact us

Huge experience of carrying out audits throughout Russia (in large and small towns). We can organize audits of any level of complexity.

Individual approach to each customer. We take into account the specifics of each company. In accordance with this we form checks.

We know all about mystery shopper research:

  • how to recruit staff,
  • how to analyze the data obtained,
  • what effective recommendations to offer.

Privacy

All research results will be guaranteed to be shared only with you under a non-disclosure agreement.

Data obtained in the course of audits will not be passed on to third parties!

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We work throughout Russia and the CIS

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