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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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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0
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
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17 Firm's market share
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Transcribed Image Text:1 0 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 $ 0 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 9,987,500.00 9.89%
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Initial Value:
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10.56%
Transcribed Image Text:Initial Value: Strategy 1: New Product Premium Service $ $ 69 69 $ GA GA G 69 8000 1500 H 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%
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