One of the most rewarding aspects of being a researcher is running analyses of event marketing reporting and converting the output into meaningful, actionable results that can be used by non-researchers....
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Ethnography Training for Experiential Marketing Event Staff
At PortMA, we like to be involved in the training of survey administration at experiential marketing events where we collect data. Clients are typically happy for the help and appreciate...
How to Obtain a Full Count of Your Event Impressions
Event impressions have a real monetary value. You do a lot to generate meaningful event impressions of the brands you serve. However, it can be difficult to demonstrate or...
Equipping Experiential Marketing Event Staff With Measurement Tools
Getting experiential marketing event staff set up in the field is relatively simple. There are a few steps you can take to ensure that your execution goes off without a...
Taking Experiential Marketing to a New Level With Outdoor Activities
Earlier this year, I discussed an experiential marketing program we measured for an outdoor sports retailer. I spoke to the importance of measuring attitude and behavior of retail club members versus...
Gathering Experiential Marketing Intelligence That Makes You Competitive
At PortMA, we collect and analyze experiential marketing data from a variety of sources, the primary ones being field staff recap reports, consumer exit surveys and sales data. Generally,...
Presenting Event Marketing Research
Believe me when I tell you that when most people who know me find out I am TERRIFIED of public speaking, they are shocked…not tooting my own horn, but...
How to Use Event Marketing Benchmarks to Predict Experiential ROI
What if you could accurately predict Experiential or Event Marketing return on investment in response to a client’s RFP? Would that be helpful?Of course! We work with Agencies to develop custom,...
Managing Historical Experiential Marketing Data
Multi-year, experiential marketing programs have an interesting, inherent problem. The benchmark data from previous years can be incredibly useful when scheduling your program for the next year or when...
Venue Selection in Event Marketing – A Case for State Fairs
Not long ago, a colleague wrote a blog post about venue selection for event marketing mobile tours – the kind of tours with big trucks, elaborate footprints, and plenty of on-site...