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.
Marketing research is used to determine why sales of a product, such as cereal, might have dropped. Qualitative data, typically gathered through interviews, can help market researchers determine the popular opinion. Marketing research is the research that companies do to study customers and other companies. Marketing research might include using social media to see what in trending within a particular industry. Giving away free samples in exchange for filling out a survey is one way companies conduct marketing research.