Chapter 97 Research: Preparation
will lead to success, failure to do so will lead to failure.
Just slap your head, get excited, and do things without a plan. Unless you are lucky, you will fail in all likelihood.
Link firmed up his idea and began to draft a research plan.
Generally speaking, there are 9 common methods of research, including field observation, interviews, questionnaires, meetings, seeking expert predictions, sampling, typical, statistics, and literature.
This afternoon's point-to-point investigation is on-the-spot observation, and we can obtain direct, vivid, authentic and reliable first-hand information.
However, what is observed is often the superficial phenomenon or external connection of things, which is subject to a certain degree of contingency and is greatly affected by the subjective factors of the investigator, so it is not suitable for large-sample surveys.
Link must combine several other investigation methods to obtain a highly credible investigation result and form a thorough and complete investigation report.
After much thought, Link decided to divide the research objects into two categories, one named market-circulating fragrances, and the other named each store's specialty fragrances.
For the fragrances circulating in the market, we can first start with the literature survey method and the statistical survey method to get a phased result, and then consider how to refine it;
for the special fragrances of each store, especially the special fragrances of Lucia Family Pharmacy, Link Be prepared to hire some people to conduct field observations, typical surveys, etc.
Where do you hire the investigators?
Of course it’s the XC area!
The points are divided like this, but for specific operations, they can be carried out together.
After thinking carefully, Link took action.
He first searched out all the relevant information that could be found in the East District Library.
Although there are few records about East End pharmaceuticals, especially fragrances, it is not impossible to find nothing.
At least Link knew which management agency he could go to to retrieve the import and export records of goods.
After writing down the useful information one by one, and seeing that it was getting close to evening, Link ended his information search and returned to the pharmacy to pick up Jasmine after get off work.
Taking the rail transit train back to the college.
Jasmine hesitated several times before speaking: "Link, this afternoon, when you were not in the store, Wizard Ella said some bad things about you." "What bad words?" Link knew that Jasmine didn't like Taoist gossip behind your
back
. Personality, there must be a reason for bringing up the topic like this, so he took up the topic.
"She said, she said..."
Jasmine considered her words and hesitated, "She said that you are an extremely cold-blooded person at heart. You just saw Antoine Hilton die in the ring last night, and then you killed him with your own hands. Rivers Francis, you are just like a normal person today, as if nothing can touch your heart."
Link was speechless.
Wizard Ella’s evaluation is very accurate and hits the nail on the head.
Even though he was already trying to integrate into the wizarding world, Link still felt a strong sense of detachment.
It's like playing a virtual game with a strong sense of substitution. The first-person perspective and various senses are real. Everything seems to be no different from the real world.
However, there is always a voice reminding players that you are not from this world!
Therefore, for Enrique Bonaris, Harold Andrews, and Rivers Francis who died in his own hands, and for Antoine Hilton who died in front of his eyes, Link felt deep in his heart. There are some waves on the moral level, but other things don't matter at all.
As if those were not human lives.
Acting extremely cold-blooded.
Link thought for a while, then a smile appeared on his face, and he said with relief: "The mouth is on the person, and she can say whatever she wants." "
But..."
Jasmine raised her voice, a little anxious, " But Wizard Salia, Wizard Tina, and even Wizard Serin have heard it, and it will affect your impression in their hearts."
Link smiled and said: "I don't live for the impression in other people's minds, so don't worry about this. "
In order to divert Jasmine's attention, Link chose to change the topic: "By the way, I went out to investigate this afternoon. There is a slight chance that your idea last night can be realized." "Really?" Jasmine knew that Link was
here
. Change the topic, but try your best to cooperate.
She knew that Link didn't want her to dwell on this, so she continued and asked, "Then what can I do?"
Jasmine could do a lot in this matter.
Collect literature, organize data, find research materials and research and development directions, carry out research and development, and so on.
Jasmine is already a relatively qualified assistant, and she still has the potential to be independent.
Back at the academy, after filling their stomachs in the cafeteria, Link and Jasmine went straight to the library.
Whether it is books in the library or information in high-end archives, as long as it is related to fragrance, we will collect them all.
Browse through it briefly, keep what is useful and discard what is useless.
The next day.
Link and Jasmine went to work as usual.
The only difference from the previous two weeks is that Link specially recorded the category, effect, price and other information of the women's fragrances on sale in the store.
This action was seen by Wizard Serin.
She knew how talented Link was in botany and pharmacy, and she immediately understood that Link had new inspiration and direction for research and development.
Without hesitation, Wizard Seren immediately waved Link over and asked directly: "Are you interested in women's fragrance?" "
Yes."
Link replied calmly: "Previously, the development of Hemerocallis essential oil was met with setbacks. Halfway through, I considered switching to fragrance, and I had some knowledge about it. Yesterday afternoon, I was wandering around the East and South Districts and found that women's fragrances were very popular in several large drug stores, so I came up with the idea of making one or several fragrances. Thoughts."
"The main function of fragrance is to calm, soothe, and soothe the mind, and women do often use it in their daily lives."
Wizard Serin nodded in praise, "This market is indeed worth developing, and the number of women's fragrances in our store is indeed lacking." After a pause, Wizard Serin asked: "How are you going to
develop it yourself? Should we develop it alone, or should we continue to develop it together?"
The reason why Wizard Seren asked this was not because he coveted the benefits that the women's fragrance might bring, but because he needed to provide different funding based on Link's choice.
The Paro wizard sent promising talents to her to work part-time. Is it really just a part-time job?
This is called training!
How can an ordinary wizard apprentice have the opportunity to practice pharmacy and alchemical pharmacy one or two years in advance?
Link replied decisively: "I am going to develop it on my own first. If I encounter unsolvable obstacles along the way, I will ask Wizard Serin for help." "
That's good."
Wizard Serin strongly agreed with this approach.
The last "cooperative development" model of Hemerocallis essential oil was a special case.
At that time, the Paro wizard made two preparations.
If Antoine Hilton dares not respond to the challenge from Rivers Francis, then Link Grande will have to be sent off.
That's why Link Grande was given a chance to obtain a large amount of magic stones in a short period of time.
This time, let’s get R&D back on track.
Link couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
This was a well-prepared trial.
If you want to count the women's fragrances on sale in the store, any time period will do.
Why did it happen in the morning when other employees were away and Wizard Seren could notice?
Just to attract the attention of Wizard Serin.
The conversation that took place after attracting attention may seem simple, but it actually has a lot of connotations.
Link determined one piece of information from Wizard Serin's reply, that is, Wizard Paro will not do anything like the night before yesterday that will require Link to do it in the near future.
The two promises to do what I could when I accepted the right to use the laboratory for half a year have been written off.
Paro Wizard means what he says!
Why this temptation?
After all, whether Lin Kecheng admits it or not, the crazy Rivers Francis has planted a thorn in his heart.
The name of the thorn is "distrust", or "doubt".
Rivers Francis, who had lost half of his sanity at that time and acted more on instinct, knew that he would never have the slightest chance of revenge on the Paro Wizard, who controlled the "
New Blood Mutual Aid Society", holding a fishing rod and using bait to catch many people like him and others. The big shot behind idiots like Antoine Hilton.
Like a drowning man seeing a life-saving straw, he placed all his hopes on Link Grande, who seemed to be extremely talented in every aspect.
In order to bury the thorn deeper, Rivers Francis did not hesitate to sacrifice his withering life.
Empty talk and white teeth, how can there be bloody death, it is impressive!
No matter what, he is dead.
What if this thorn comes into play in the distant future?
Then make a lot of money!
After feeling relieved, Link began to advance the research progress in an orderly manner.
After finishing the preprocessing of plants and herbs in the morning, and after lunch, Link asked Wizard Serin to write a letter of introduction for the secondment of data, and then headed to the central city.
Among the many administrative organizations in Riversouth City, there is one organization that is very inconspicuous, but very important.
That is the Goods Import and Export Administration.
Goods entering and exiting Reversos City via the "Airport" and "Truck" stations are not classified into categories. All incoming and outgoing tickets must be summarized and filed with the Import and Export Administration Bureau for further investigation.
Even the black market in the West District is like this, except for the real black goods who will be killed if they leak the information.
Without a letter of introduction from Wizard Serin, if Link dared to come to ask for relevant data on the import and export of women's fragrances in recent years, he would definitely end up being controlled by an intelligent law enforcement puppet.
With this letter of introduction, Link successfully obtained the data he wanted.
After that, without bothering to analyze the data, Link entered the Western District through the Southern District.
Without going deep into the West District, Link wandered around the outside of the West District a few times, ready to try his luck and find some easy-to-control gangsters to do things for him.
Link's luck has always been good, and he actually caught the five street gangsters from last time.
"Come here."
Link waved to the gangsters who wanted to turn back when they saw him.
The fear of being awakened prevented the gangsters from going against Link's wishes, even though this place was on the outskirts of the West District and not as chaotic as the interior of the West District.
"Brother... Brother, are you... okay?"
The gangster leader asked timidly with his back hunched, his neck half raised, his voice trembling.
Link took one look and knew what the gangsters were afraid of.
He pushed up the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, smiled politely, and said in a gentle tone: "Don't worry, I'll find something good for you."
After his words fell, the gangsters became even more frightened.
Brother, you said you didn't mean any harm last time, but you scared us and asked us to help you kill someone.
Now if there is a good thing, wouldn't it mean to kill it?
We are just useless street gangsters, please let me go.
The gangster leader was very active in his heart, but his reply was very sincere: "Brother, if you have anything to do, just ask me." "
This is the deposit, and you will have a share after the deal is completed."
Without saying anything, Link took out a ten-dollar standard coin. The bag of super magic stones was stuffed into the hands of the gangster leader, and he said seriously: "I want to know the category, quantity, effect, price of the special women's fragrances sold in all the pharmacies in the East District, as well as their approximate monthly sales volume. I give you three days, can you do it?"
After a pause, Link emphasized: "Remember, this is the special women's fragrance made by each pharmacy!"
The gangsters, especially the gangster leader, heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this.
As long as it's not murder.
They were worried about the last incident for a while.
Although during this period of time, their life was quite comfortable.
Not only did he get ten magic stones from Link, he also pulled a lot of trophies from the corpses and sold a lot of magic stones.
This time it’s just about gathering information, my specialty, no problem at all.
The gangster leader squeezed the bag containing the magic stones and asked: "Brother, we have compiled the data, how should we hand it over to you?" "
Eastern District, Seren Wizard Pharmacy."
This is not two weeks ago, Link is not afraid of being exposed Some of his own information, he said calmly, "After you organize and copy the data, just come to me here." "
Then we go back and prepare now?"
the gangster leader asked tentatively.
"Go."
Link waved his hand and watched the gangsters turn back into the West District, and he also returned to the East District.
Now that there is a new project and Wizard Seren has also given new support, it is very reasonable to borrow the space of the pharmacy.
Return to the pharmacy and enter the operation room.
Link took out his portable computer and carefully analyzed the data "copied" from the Import and Export Administration Bureau.
Especially the purchase data of women's fragrance in Lucia Family Pharmacy.
It can be seen from the data that the market-distributed fragrances mainly sold by major pharmacies in the four urban areas have a common feature, that is, they are more practical.
However, Link did not jump to conclusions, nor did he rush to set the direction of fragrance development.
He turned to read the fragrance-related information and literature downloaded from the Advanced Document Library.
In the evening, Jasmine got off work and returned to the academy together.
After a simple dinner, the two went into the laboratory to make preparations for formal research and development.
Then, two days passed peacefully.
The gangsters obviously took Link's instructions to heart, and sent the collected data to Seren's Wizard Pharmacy before noon on the third day.
Link readily paid another ten standard first-level magic stones.
As a person, you must keep your word. If you say you will get another share when things are done, you will get another share.
The gangsters left happily.
After reading the data, Link had an unexpected surprise and a sense of urgency.
Lucia Family Pharmacy is preparing to hold a new pharmacy product launch conference in the near future, including a new fragrance series.
The opportunity for sniping is available, and so are the targets for sniping.
The question is whether Link and Jasmine can develop a high-quality fragrance product in time that can compete with the new fragrance products of Lucia's family pharmacy.
The question is more about whether it can be won.
Link thought for a while and felt that he still needed to differentiate his competition.
Perhaps, it is not too practical, but highlights the fragrance and focuses on charm while ensuring that the effect is not weaker than other fragrances?
When making money from women, you have to consider fame and beauty.
A book recommended by a big brother:
"Gu Changsheng, the Honorable One"
focuses on one life, supplemented by ten thousand worlds, and witnesses various famous scenes. It is fast-paced and does not delay. Interested friends can check it out.
(End of chapter)