Just talking about the visiongain site. http://www.visiongain.com – it seems to work fine on my system though the previous blogger said he couldnt get on.

Yes I would agree…. am always sceptical of people who are constantly happy and successful, I find myself continuosly grumpy and alot of what i have written on your site would only confirm this!!!

To which Web site are you referring. I put in links and when I know some go 404, I add a note. Others are–well–going to go dark due to an editorial policy or a glitch.

I am neither happy nor successful. I am generally miserable and an abject failure. Anything positive is either tongue in cheek or the opposite of what the words seem to say.

Thanks for your post about “the report”. Utility depends upon the reader’s knowledge. At university, certain courses lay the foundation for a more advanced course. A student lacking the foundation can neither understand the more advanced course nor offer an objective evaluation of the professor and her work.

Life, of course, in today’s world is not concerned with these trifles.

Stephen Arnold, August 7, 2008

I spoke to the person who wrote the report we just bought (we bought another one last week and I wanted some clarification on which Q the figures were judged from) and the guy who wrote the report was in-house and available for a quick chat. Again, this report has turned out to be quite useful for us, so again, I can’t really complain. They didnt seem troubled to me – unusually helpful infact. The report also came with about a dozen first hand interviews in the appendix, so looked fairly primary led to me. Anyway, I am glad to hear you are ‘happy and successful’.

Thanks for your comment and bringing up such a trivial error was genius. Not everyone has the time to check every word, i certainly don’t.

Anyway disgruntled ex-employee I am not, a very happy and successful ex-employee i am. I very much enjoyed and appreciated my time at the company but i was commenting on something i saw for myself. Have you been to the company website recently, or even in the last year? It doesn’t work and has not done so for ages.

The company does tend to outsource all its report writers these days because they struggle to keep employees because of their methods. I don’t want to go too deep in to this but some reports are good but they have not always been based on good honest primary research. Their pharma reports were generally much better than their mobile/wireless telecoms ones.

There’s a good reason why they went from a promising company to a seriously troubled one.