With reports flying off the fingers this week, my focus is turned towards sampling performance for our beverage programs. One key area we monitor is the number of samples...
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Measuring Events Is As Much Compassion As It Is Skill
We’ll be delivering a recap report tomorrow that highlights the success of a marketing campaign, the integration of that campaign into a sampling program, and how the combination of...
Extending Your Agency Brand with Measurement
I wrote a strategy today that focused on building out a fully customized experiential measurement strategy that is unique to the one Agency and something no-one else will do....
Samples Vs. Sampled
So you distributed over 9,000 samples during the week. That’s great! Now, more importantly, how many people sampled your product? This important distinction is commonly lost in reporting on...
The Importance of Hitting Your Target
When you spend as long as I do immersed in a world of data you learn to accept many things as essentially constant. You know that they don’t necessarily...
How Many Responses Do I Need?
I often get asked how many survey responses you need when surveying event patrons. Yesterday I was speaking with one of our public sector Clients about this very thing....
The Story Behind the Statistics
I delivered a weekly overall report today for one of my clients and several individualized market reports by specific geographic regions to the team. I found certain trends in those reports, indicating...
Three Keys to Successful Event Marketing Measurement
Event marketing is a fascinating field of marketing that poses an especially difficult measurement challenge. It’s a field of marketing that thrives on the unique. While a traditional direct...
Premium Impressions
People love free stuff! It has long been the habit of marketers and Event Marketers in particular to brand anything and everything you can think of with a Client’s...
ROI on Experiential vs. Above the Line Advertising
I love getting emails like the one below. If you have similar questions, I hope you know that you can always write us and ask anything. We offer an...