Mystery shopping services can help businesses in several ways: 1) Identify areas for improvement through objective customer research, 2) Understand opportunities by measuring customer service performance, and 3) Boost staff competence and sales through targeted training based on mystery shopping data. Mystery shopping involves anonymous shoppers testing various customer touchpoints like in-store, online, or phone to collect both qualitative and quantitative data on customer experience. Businesses can then review the compiled data to identify operational or staff issues and link performance to sales metrics in order to focus training and drive better results.