Question: This is a role play for business course assignment. Please provide detailed answers/explanations for each. You are the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for

This is a role play for business course assignment. Please provide detailed answers/explanations for each.

You are the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Nerd Heard, a company with 20 outlet stores across the United States that sells gizmos and gadgets to "tech geeks." Last year, your best seller was a flexible tablet device called the Flex Face. You sold 100,000 units at $400 per unit for total sales of $40,000,000. Nerd Heard will launch a new product on January 1, 2023. The product is called the Talking Flex Face. It is a flexible tablet device that speaks anything typed into it.

The Board of Directors has high hopes for the Talking Flex Face tablet device and expects sales of the device will reach $100,000,000 by 12/31/2023. The unit price for a Talking Flex Face tablet is $800.

As the Vice President of Sales and Marketing, you have been directed to create a sales plan for the Talking Flex Face tablet device, including developing a sales strategy and writing a S.M.A.R.T. goal that all Nerd Heard outlet stores will follow.

To complete this role-play you must do the following:

Given your knowledge of the various types of plans, describe the type of plan that you would create to achieve the sales goals of the Talking Flex Face tablet. Address each of the following: breadth, time frame, specificity and frequency of use.

Tell us why you created this specific type of plan.

Write a S.M.A.R.T. goal that outlet store managers will follow to achieve $100,000,000 in sales of the Talking Flex Face tablet.

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