You can depend on this cottage-garden favorite to fill your garden with color all season long. The simple, daisylike flowers appear in cheery shades on tall stems that are great for cutting. The lacy foliage makes a great backdrop for shorter plants, as well. Cosmos often self-seeds in the garden, so you may only have to plant it once, though the colors can appear muddy or odd in the reseeders. Plant cosmos from seed directly in the ground in spring. Or start from established seedlings.
A test market, in the field of business and marketing, is a geographic region or demographic group used to gauge the viability of a product or service in the mass market prior to a wide scale roll-out. The criteria used to judge the acceptability of a test market region or group include: 1  a population that is demographically similar to the proposed target market; and.  relative isolation from densely populated media markets so that advertising to the test audience can be efficient and economical.
Many researchers feel that test marketing should be the last check before rolling the product out into national distribution. âI would say the batting average ought to be somewhere between 65% and 75%,â Pearson calculates. Light maintains that âwhen you go into test market, youâve made the decision to go.