Background I started working in the Experiential Marketing Industry in 2005. Since then I’ve seen a lot of recap reports. My first job in the industry was to help...
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The Metric Where Opportunity Is Hiding
You’re researching your brand’s market share and you discover that a large portion of the consumers you are reaching have purchased your product before, but not recently enough to be...
Case Study: Household Fixtures Tour
When a national household fixtures company wants to introduce a new product line to consumers and builders alike, they have a number of barriers to overcome. Awareness can be...
A New Look at Customer Retention
Consumer packaged goods are interesting, specifically because they have such low customer retention rates. With virtually no cost or other apparent downside to changing brands, people have little reluctance...
The Importance of Data Consistency
Consistency is a key component of any successful endeavor. Data consistency is especially important in administering experiential marketing. Questions must be presented with grammatic precision. Additionally, demographics must be...
Hitting the Marque With Spirits Sampling
We just delivered a third quarter recap report on a sampling campaign at special events in the spirits industry. Before the second phase of the program began in the...
Year-To-Year Impact Paints a Bigger Picture
This week we presented a recap report to our client measuring the impact of a mobile tour for an organization. The research strategy was modeled after the previous year...
Looking Back
I had the opportunity this week to review data from projects conducted over the past three years. The first thing that I noticed was how familiar it all was. Despite...
Message to Market Match in Product Sampling
We presented the findings from a 17-week, 22-market sampling program today. The brand reached over 100,000 consumers over the course of 17 weeks with a message focused on new...
Keeping ROI In Perspective
We recently finished our research for a very successful mobile tour for a well known, frequently purchased (70% of consumers reported they were current customers) food product. Consumers loved...