The Sales Forecasting Method That Involves Making a Product Available

question 158

Multiple Choice

The sales forecasting method that involves making a product available to buyers in one or more test areas and measuring purchases and consumer responses to the product, distribution, promotion, and price is called .

• A) a market test
• B) regression analysis
• C) trend analysis
• D) a survey
• E) the Delphi technique

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