There is typically a lot of anxiety around the launch of an event measurement project. Typically the stakeholders have… well… a lot at stake. They’re embarking on a process...
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How to Follow Up With Consumers in Event Marketing
Event Marketers utilize post-event online surveys for a number of reasons: They can follow-up with event marketing attendees to find out how they feel and have acted about your event months...
Understanding the Impact of Cause Marketing in Experiential
A spirits brand for whom we have been conducting research during the past year-and-a-half has lately undertaken a unique experiential strategy: Cause Marketing. The brand is being promoted at events primarily designed to...
How to Define Event Marketing Research Objectives
The most important part of any event marketing research project is to clearly and accurately define objectives. Before defining research objectives, you need to know three things: 1. A comprehensive understanding...
Modeling Return-on-Investment of In-Store Demos
I had the pleasure of speaking with the team at Shopper Events about strategies for modeling return-on-investment (ROI) for retail product demos. One of the things we discussed was...
Facing Event Marketing Report Writing Anxieties: Part 3
This is the third post in a series designed to help you overcome challenges inherent in writing. While the focus of these posts is on marketing report writing, these...
Gathering Consumer Feedback at Events
A lot goes into making sure gathering consumer feedback happens for a project. For field work, getting staff in field with a way to administer the survey quickly and efficiently...
Discovering Consumer Attitudes Can Identify Prospective Customers
PortMA conducted a national online survey in 2014 to help a client update their marketing strategy with their website and other promotional materials. The client was beginning to see a...
Best Practices for Event Research Methodology (Part 2)
Earlier in the year, I posted a blog about methodologies and the best practices Research Managers at PortMA employ when drafting one. At the end of that post, I...
Why Should You Outsource Your Event Measurement?
There are a lot of great tools available to the event marketer when trying to integrate touch-points and gather data. I was recently reading about Splash which looks like...