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Benchmarks are a valuable asset for assessing the performance of a program.  At PortMA, we have an internal database which we use when benchmarking data for clients.  It allows...

On-site, consumer exit surveys provide insights into consumer impact immediately following the event experience. Sometimes, however, clients ask us to measure impact several months after an event. We typically...

PortMA measured an event marketing program for a spirits brand in 2015 that covered several markets in the US. The brand team executed more than 3,000 events over the...

This article outlines how to value impressions, and the role impression value plays in measuring event marketing ROI. Understanding the Role of CPM in Event Marketing Impression Value Let’s...

Learn how we’ve modeled experiential marketing ROI for more than 130 brand engagements over the past six years. Read the details on how to do it yourself with our...

An experiential marketing metric that we include in almost every measurement strategy is called recommend intent. It’s an often underrated metric because we so often focus on purchase intent,...

At a smaller company like PortMA, situations frequently arise where you are called to do work that falls outside of your typical job description. With a coworker out sick...

Impressions are a common and important field staff reporting metric in the event marketing industry. Event marketing impressions are essentially how many individuals saw your brand’s advertising at an...

We manage several programs that include a post-event survey to help determine changes in consumer behavior or perception of the brand. For example, we may survey consumers 30 post-event to see...

Data cleaning is probably the most important part of my job. Clean data ensures the validity of our analysis. Defining what data is considered clean, and what is not,...