Acompany is conducting market research to determine the best areas to sell its product. it has already determined its research questions. what is the next step of this company's research plan?

Collect the data.

Explanation:

The data collection of a market research must be performed using the methodology that most closely aligns with the company's marketing strategy. An effective research research methodology must be adapted to the new form of communication and relationship between companies and consumers.

Currently the most used way to collect data is through digital media, as it is a means of quick, easy, cheap and widely used access by almost the entire population.

There are several ways to collect data, some of which are:

answer: a. the kind of population living in your neighbourhood.

the census explorer data tool by the us census bureau allows the user to zoom in on any neighbourhood within the united states and find the kind of people residing in that by race and age.  

the tool needs to needs to be used twice – once in order to find what type of people reside in a neighbourhood, and then to see the age groups of the people in the same neighbourhood.