News & Updates
Colleges and Universities: Students are again beginning to schedule those important campus visits.
Are you evaluating your visit experience in the most effective way? Would you like to save time and resources with your evaluation process? MyCampusVisit can help! Find out how
you can determine the impact of your campus visits on your prospective students.
Visit our Sample Co-Op Survey to get a glimpse at how we can benefit your operation.
Eco-Friendly Issues
SRC offers research services for companies, oganizations and communities concerned with environmental issues.
We provide constituency research regarding such areas as environmentally friendly efforts, and customer and employee expectations and satisfaction.
Green Tip: Americans throw away 50 billion food and drink cans each year. Recycle at home and work!
Fraud/Scam Alerts (Updated May 12, 2010)
There are several current scams and fraudulent activities regarding mystery shopping being operated on an international basis at this time. Most scams are initiated through the Internet. Beware of these scams! If you have the slightest indication someone is trying to scam you, do not respond to the message and do not provide any information.
We are Service Research Corporation (SRC), not Service Research Inc.
SRC does NOT recruit mystery shoppers through Internet sites such as Yahoo or Craig’s list.
SRC does NOT utilize a Hiring Manager or others with similar titles to recruit mystery shoppers. One scammer pretends to be the Hiring Manager and often uses the name Michael Springs, Robert Springs, Victor, John Smith and other names.
Internet correspondence in these matters often originate from private email addresses such as yahoo, aol, etc. they do not come from SRC. SRC correspondence originates from serviceresearch.com. Many times their emails are poorly written. Beware!
SRC recruits through this website. The scammer often use www.myssrc.com or ssrcmic@aol.com for their correspondences.
The scammers:
Have copied our logo for use in their scams. They have also utilized information from our website to make their message appear to be real.
Often use Craig’s List or Yahoo to make the initial contact. The scammers are most likely located outside the United States but operate their scams through many cities throughout the U.S.
May say they are Service Research Inc. or Service Research Corporation.
Often send bogus checks for large amounts, even up to $5,000.
Ask for personal information . . . do not give it to them!
What you can do to help identify and arrest these scammers:
Get their information.
Telephone numbers, email addresses, names, etc.
Make copies of checks and other correspondence and forward to the real SRC at info@serviceresearch.com.
We encourage you to be extremely cautious and do not fall for “easy money” scams or provide your personal information in search of mystery shopping assignments. Anything that looks too good to be true, usually is.
Immediately notify the following if you suspect a scam.
- Office of the State Attorney General
- FBI
- Local Law Enforcement
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SRC History
Service Research Corporation (SRC) has provided research, mystery shopping and human resource services to a nationwide client list since 1991. SRC is a small, full-service research and consulting firm specializing in constituency satisfaction. We develop data-driven solutions, creating opportunities for our clients to better understand and serve their markets, customers and employees.
SRC provides research services in customer satisfaction, customer feedback systems, market research, business-to-business research, digital survey systems, and call-center operations. SRC uses a variety of methods tailored to meet the needs of individual clients, including telephone surveys, Internet surveys, mail surveys, focus groups, individual or group interviews, mystery shopping, and in-bound telephone services.