Our experiential marketing research is designed to measure the degree to which the program generated greater purchase intent for a product. However, we recently conducted a program to measure...
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Event Sampling and Purchase Intent Metric Improvement
We have an ongoing research project that includes measuring event sampling and purchase intent. During this time, the process has been refined to better match the needs of the...
Four Key Elements of a Successful Research Methodology
Research methodology must be determined before actually beginning the research. You’ve heard the adage “Fail to Plan; Plan to Fail.” The research methodology is the most crucial step of...
Experiential Marketing Recap in a Flash-Report
We use a marketing recap in our Flash Reports for our experiential marketing campaigns at PortMA. It’s a regular, frequent, bird’s-eye overview that indicates our progress toward our predetermined...
What's in a Word? A Single Word Can Make or Break Your Campaign
What’s in a word? During my work on a recent PortMA project, the word “sustainable” came up a number of times. I have thought about the word ever since....
Using Surveys to Measure Experiential Marketing Campaigns
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...
Event Marketing Insights May Come Down to the Finest Detail
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...
Tips on Keeping Your Reporting Fresh
Many of our research projects have in-depth reporting schedules. The longer the program, the more likely it is that we will provide multiple reports for that program. For instance,...
Launching a Research Project: Best Practices
The workload of a market research manager during the first quarter entails launching new projects for the coming year. Many experiential and traditional market research projects run over the...
Two Event Marketing Measurement Ideas to Consider
At the time of writing this post, I just finished reviewing an Event Recap Report Template with a wine industry client. We like to send Recap Report Templates in...