3. Taylor has decided that the goal really should be to maximize the number of subscriptions sold, regardless of whether the subscription is basic, standard, or premium. Given his new goal, which product line extension strategy should Cuteness for You pursue? a. Add only the basic subscription product line extension. b. Add only the premium subscription product line extension. c. Do not add either the basic or the premium subscription product line extension. d. Create an even lower priced limited subscription product line extension. e. Add both the basic and premium subscription product line extensions.
Taylor Smith owns a small clothing company, Cuteness for You, that offers an online subscription and personal shopping service targeted at busy families with children aged newborn to five years old. Currently, Taylor has one level of subscription service, the standard service. For $100 a month, the standard service provides its customers a monthly delivery of 10 clothing items carefully chosen to match the child's size, gender, and emerging style. The online clothing subscription market is fairly new but is growing rapidly and thus Taylor is considering extending the product line to increase its market share and profits.
Taylor is debating whether to add a premium subscription service featuring profitable high-markup items for $125 per month, a basic subscription service that contains lower-markup popular items priced at $75 per month, or possibly both. Taylor knows that the new product lines provide an opportunity to attract more customers and possibly increase revenues and profit, but recognizes that new product lines, especially ones priced below the $100 standard service, might steal sales from the standard line through cannibalization.
To evaluate, Taylor creates a spreadsheet containing key marketing metrics including estimated firm sales revenue and units, firm profit, and industry sales revenue. Based on industry research, he estimates that basic subscriptions would cannibalize standard sales at 4X the rate premium would.
Market share = Firm's sales revenue / Total industry sales revenue (including the firm's)
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3. Taylor has decided that the goal really should be to maximize the number of subscriptions sold, regardless of whether the subscription is basic, standard, or premium. Given his new goal, which product line extension strategy should Cuteness for You pursue?
a. Add only the basic subscription product line extension.
b. Add only the premium subscription product line extension.
c. Do not add either the basic or the premium subscription product line extension.
d. Create an even lower priced limited subscription product line extension.
e. Add both the basic and premium subscription product line extensions.
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2 Standard service sales (units)
3
Premium service sales (units)
4
Basic service sales (units)
5 Price standard subscription
A
6
Price - premium subscription
7
Price - basic subscription
8
Sales revenue - standard
9 Sales revenue - premium
10
Sales revenue - basic
11 Firm's total revenue
12 Profit - standard
13 Profit - premium
14 Profit - basic
15 Firm's total profit
16
Total industry revenue
17 Firm's market share
10
Standard Service
$
$
B
$
$
10
100 $
$
1,000
1,000
500
E
Strategy 1: New Product Strategy 2: New Product Strategy 3: New Products
Premium Service
-Basic Service
-Premium + Basic
Service
0.01%
$
$
$
$
$
$
500.00 $
$ 9,001,000.00 $
с
8
100 $
125
800
0
$
$
$
800
$
400 $
0
$
400.00 $
9,000,800.00 $
0.01%
D
6
100
75
600
0
600
300
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
0 $
300.00 $
9,000,600.00 $
0.01%
5
$
100
125
75
500 $
0
0
500 $
250 $
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0
Initial Value:
Standard Service
F
250.00 $
9,000,500.00 $
0.01%
10000
100 $
$
Initial Value: Strategy 1:
New Product -Premium
Service
1,000,000 $
$
1,000,000 $
500,000 $
$
500,000.00 $
10,000,000.00 $
10.00%
G
8000
1500
100
125
800,000
187,500
987,500
400,000
140,625
540,625.00
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New Product Premium
Service
$
$
69
69
$
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1500
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Initial Value:
Strategy 2: New Product
-Basic Service
100 $
125
800,000
187,500
$
$
$
987,500 $
400,000 $
140,625
$
540,625.00 $
9,987,500.00 $
9.89%
6000
7000
100
I
Initial Value:
Strategy 3: New Products
-Premium + Basic
Service
$
$
75 $
600,000 $
$
525,000 $
1,125,000 $
300,000 $
$
157,500 $
457,500.00 $
10,125,000.00 $
11.11%
+A
5000
1500
5000
100
125
75
500,000
187,500
375,000
1,062,500
250,000
140,625
112,500
503,125.00
10,062,500.00
10.56%](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F7ce3715c-c485-4d4c-8cc7-fef672911709%2F9cfc5b01-6574-4d2e-b353-d57ca503b4ac%2Ft3qwtkq_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
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