tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post8902204051507547211..comments2024-03-28T23:25:17.414+00:00Comments on Bonkers about Perfume: 'You show me your turnover and I'll show you mine!' An explanatory preamble about my bonkers spying career Vanessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-2551800395687171112014-11-10T10:21:47.423+00:002014-11-10T10:21:47.423+00:00Hi Undina,
I will be honest, when I joined the co...Hi Undina,<br /><br />I will be honest, when I joined the company I wasn't aware of the importance of this particular type of study in the overall mix. At least we weren't allowed to tell an outright fib, just to be economical with the truth until pressed. And I am pleased to say that I also conducted focus groups and one-to-one interviews with consumers as well, where I was much more in Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-28714226044742994652014-11-10T07:19:33.659+00:002014-11-10T07:19:33.659+00:00I don't think I could do something like that e...I don't think I could do something like that even if that was the only job available: I am so straight forward that I wouldn't probably be able to get past the first Hi or the very next phrase :)Undinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05292100499371921334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-77762348416715865812014-11-09T22:10:38.135+00:002014-11-09T22:10:38.135+00:00Hi Anka,
The Berlin Wall post just snuck in under...Hi Anka,<br /><br />The Berlin Wall post just snuck in under the wire today - I was spurred on in no small measure by your inquiry, indeed. ;)<br /><br />That wall of balloons sounds amazing - I hope you did get a chance to see it tonight. I expect people will be out in droves on such a special occasion.<br /><br />And I am pleased you could relate to my memory image - there was a lot of last Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-37802895462608635052014-11-09T08:14:10.032+00:002014-11-09T08:14:10.032+00:00Looking forward to your anniversary post (coming t...Looking forward to your anniversary post (coming today?) and am curious which house you'll pick.<br />Tonight, I might go out and have a look at some of the 8000 balloons "planted" along the former border. They light up to a 15 km long "wall of light" to be released into the dark sky after sunset to the sound of Beethoven's 9th symphony - well, Germans seem to love theAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-45288197747565794702014-11-08T19:12:15.861+00:002014-11-08T19:12:15.861+00:00Hi Tara,
It was a bit of a shady world, I agree! ...Hi Tara,<br /><br />It was a bit of a shady world, I agree! I felt happiest when we could offer people extracts from the report, for - given the scarcity of information on these obscure industrial products - any hard information was like gold dust, and provided people hadn't spun us a line along the way, the picture of the market we were able to piece together through this rather Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-54856872382056442552014-11-08T19:05:39.559+00:002014-11-08T19:05:39.559+00:00Hi Carol,
I couldn't do it now, that's fo...Hi Carol,<br /><br />I couldn't do it now, that's for sure. And in the light of your second comment, you should definitely catch the next post...Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-87750369326967365052014-11-08T15:57:21.468+00:002014-11-08T15:57:21.468+00:00What an enlightening look at (a very slightly) sha...What an enlightening look at (a very slightly) shady world! I had no idea about this kind of research and found it really interesting. How stressful it must have been! Especially the frogmarching and lurking in the bushes. Mind you, you are so personable I can see why you were so good at it. <br /><br />Looking forward to the German perfume post. Tarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00825957684276136205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-20029058116330686782014-11-08T14:48:03.249+00:002014-11-08T14:48:03.249+00:00You are incredible, Bonks - there is no way I coul...You are incredible, Bonks - there is no way I could ever do what you do/did. I would be so afraid of being yelled at and being thrown out! Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394558427981331885noreply@blogger.com