Scenario:After your first couple of months as a product line manager with the new successful startupAHP Company, you are called into the marketing department’s conference room. The marketing director...

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Scenario:After your first couple of months as a product line manager with the new successful startupAHP Company, you are called into the marketing department’s conference room. The marketing director announces that she has a product idea you need to research. She wants you to research the possibility of marketing a motorized wheelchair that converts into a bed since the engineering department says such a product is feasible.



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Instructions:Below is your task checklist. Respond to all the items in a minimum of 2- to 3-page paper 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.

  • Explain what type of data you will you need, primary or secondary.

  • Explain the means of obtaining the data. Explain what type of research you will pursue. Will you use quantitative or qualitative data? Explain why.

  • Describe the sampling plan:

    1. Who will you survey?

    2. Sample size: How many people will you survey, knowing that all the people you intend to survey may not respond, or their survey will be incomplete, etc.?

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

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



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

  • Respond to all the items in a minimum of a 2- to 3-page essay with additional title and reference pages in APA format and citation style.

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Answer To: Scenario:After your first couple of months as a product line manager with the new successful...

Sudipta answered on May 03 2021
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MARKETING RESEARCH PLANNING
Define the problem and research objectives
A motorize
d wheelchair that can be converted into a bed is the proposed product by the marketing director. However, the director is not sure how the product will able to draw user's attention. Moreover, whether the new product will able to offer any value to the customers or not is a matter of concern.
AHP Company's mission is to offering high-quality home products and improving the lives of human beings. Keeping this concept in mind, the following objectives will be obtained through this research.
· To determine the need for the convertible electronic wheelchair
· To forecast initial revenue from selling the product
· To identify marketing techniques that would help the company to reach the maximum possible audience
Approach to getting answers for the research questions
A closed-ended questionnaire will be developed. Each question will be designed in such a way so that it able to answer the above-mentioned research questions. The questionnaire will be developed in “Google Form” which is a completely free tool (Agustina & Purnawarman, 2020). The survey link will be shared with the respondent’s email ID which will help the researcher to get responses as soon as a participant submits the survey.
Type of data to be used
The research will be completely based on primary data. However, the contact information of the respondents will be collected from the internet however, that contract information will be kept aside as these are confidential information....
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