Research is becoming much more critical to all aspects of business as competition gets more intense, and as consumers can choose between a wider array of products online. You will address just the first two steps of the market research planning process to better understand what is really involved in marketing research.

The following Course Outcome is assessed in this Assignment:

MT450-2: Develop a marketing research plan for a product.

Scenario: After your first couple of months as a product line manager with this new successful startup, ASG, you are called into the conference room. The marketing director announces that she has a product idea you need to research.

Make sure to complete the Learning Activity in order to be more successful in completing this Assignment.

View the introductory ASG simulation, view the simulation research tip and the ASG Customer Service Representative (CSR) database, and then address the checklist items.

Instructions: Below is your task checklist. Respond to all the items in a 2- to 3-page paper (minimum 600–800 words) with additional title and reference pages in APA format and citation style.

Checklist: (Steps 1 and 2 of marketing research planning)

• Define the problem and research objectives you want answered in line with the company’s mission and objectives.
• Determine how to go about getting answers to those research questions in the most time- and cost-efficient way while getting viable and significant data (i.e., determine the means of obtaining the data).
• Explain what type of data you will you need, primary or secondary.
• Explain what type of research you will pursue. Will you use quantitative or qualitative data? Explain why.
• Describe the sampling plan:

A) Who will you survey?

B) Sample Size: Knowing that all the people you intend to survey may not respond or may respond with an incomplete survey, how many people will you survey?

C) Sampling procedure: How will you go about finding your sample population? What will be a statistically significant measure?

D) How will you contact the subjects? Will you email them, phone them, etc.?

• Determine how to ensure the data is significant enough to make a decision as to whether or not the product development engineers should proceed with product development.

Submit your 2- to 3-page paper (minimum 600–800 words) in APA format and citation style with additional title and reference pages to the Unit 3 Assignment Dropbox.

Answer preview

The company has been targeting adults as the main customers. However, there have been frequent inquiries about children’s products through the company’s blog and customer service line. Initially, the company’s clothing line targeted children from five years to nine to years but leaving out children and young adults from ten years and above. Moreover, ASG needs to establish whether gloves with sensors that automatically create warmth could be solder to skiers and snowboarders for about $20 a pair. Generally, the company’s mission is creating sustainable clothing for all sports people anywhere that adapt to temperature variations…

Total: 684 words.