Please see attachmentsCase 1Objective: Select the appropriate research design.You have just graduated from college and are a newly hired researcher trainee at Georgia Metro Research. You have been asked to determine the appropriate research design for two new clients, as follows.Client A is a consumer packaged goods manufacturer with a well-established brand name. The client has focused on manufacturing and distribution for years while the marketing program has been set on “auto pilot.” All had worked fine, though there was a hint of emerging problems when, in the preceding year, market share had fallen slightly. Now, our client has just reviewed the current market share report and notices that over the previous 12 months, its share has gradually eroded 15 percent. When market share falls, clients are eager to learn why and to take corrective action. In these situations we know immediately the problem is that we don’t know what the problem is. There are many possible causes for this slippage. You need to determine the research design needed.Client B is in a very competitive category with equal market share of the top three brands. Our client is convinced that it has changed every marketing mix variable possible except for package design. Since the three competitive brands are typically displayed side-by-side, the client wants us to determine what factors of package design (e.g., size, shape, color, texture) cause an increase in awareness, preference for, and intention to buy the brand. What do you recommend for the appropriate research design?What research design would you recommend for each of these clients?For the research design you selected for each client, explain why you believe your choice of design is the correct choice. Case 2 Objective: Select the appropriate sampling plan.Client AHonda USA is interested in learning what its 550 U.S. dealers think about a new service program Honda provided to the dealers at the beginning of last year. Honda USA wants to know if the dealers are using the program and, if so, what they like and dislike about the program. Honda USA does not want to survey all 550 dealers, but wants to ensure that the results are representative of all the dealers.Client BA researcher has the task of estimating how many units of a new, revolutionary photocopy machine (it does not require ink cartridges and is guaranteed not to jam) will be purchased by business firms in Cleveland, Ohio, for the upcoming annual sales forecast. She is going to ask about their likelihood of purchasing the new device, and for those “very likely” to purchase, she wants respondents to estimate how many machines their company will buy. She has data that will allow her to divide the companies into small, medium, and large firms based on number of employees at the Cleveland office.Of the four probability sampling methods that the researcher could use, what sampling plan should be used for each of these clients?Briefly discuss your reasoning for your choice of sampling plan for each case.Writing the Marketing Research Report All of the work is almost done. You have designed your research project; collected and prepared your data; and analyzed the results. It is time to communicate your marketing research findings. In order to do so, you must be able to address the following. Discuss the relative importance of the marketing research report to other stages in the marketing research process.Review the components of the elements of a Marketing Report. Then identify and differentiate the three major sections of a marketing research report.Distinguish among the elements of results, conclusions, and recommendations. What are some alternate ways researchers may report findings? What are some important things researchers should keep in mind when using alternate or innovative reporting vehicles?

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Reply to both posts on: What environmental influences on pricing currently affect U.S. firms looking to expand outside the US?Post #1:Some common environmental influences on pricing is competition and government regulations. For competition, it is important for companies to remain price competitive, meaning it is not significantly more expensive than other products so that consumers still purchase it. This can be particularly difficult for firms looking to expand outside of the US, because the firm will have an increased cost to export these products or an increased cost to put a manufacturing facility in a different country. For example, it is difficult for US firms to sell small toy products in China because they are produced and sold for cheaper by domestic companies in China. Additionally, if competition that already exists outside of the US that has a cheaper manufacturing cost and more natural resources, their products will be significantly cheaper than the imported one from the US firm.Additionally, government regulation is extremely difficult when trading between different countries. Governments can impose tariffs and non-tariff barriers like quotas on external firms, limiting the product that is imported so that the company will have to raise their prices to maintain a profit, and will not be able to sell additional product. Post #2:There are several environmental influences on pricing decisions: currency fluctuations, inflation, government controls and subsidies, and competitive behavior. (Keegan and Mark, 2017) Currency fluctuations affect U.S. firms’ pricing decision when looking to expand outside the U.S especially when the trade relation between the destination country and the U.S. is not looking well. Recently, the escalated trade war between the U.S. and China has caused Chinese yuan to lower by 10%. (Olsen, 2018) That means for the same price labeled in US dollar product/service consumer would need to pay 10% Chinese yuan for it. 10% is a pretty big difference in price. Inflation has a similar idea behind it coming from consumer’s buying power. It is important to find the balance between pricing and inflation. This is also affected by the market-entry strategy whether the production is in the U.S. or globally. Government controls and subsidies are some restrictions to pricing as price ceiling and floor that sometimes hurts the pricing strategy especially when those restrictions are protecting local firms. This leads to the last but not least factor, the competitive behavior. Some of the things that competitors would do could increase their profit margin without changing sales price. This becomes more difficult for foreign companies to match such as a U.S. firm.