Normally, any project where we calculate return-on-investment (ROI) includes an essential component from the survey: purchase intent. However, on rare occasions, we employ a survey for an experiential program where...
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Reviewing Past Research: What Worked Last Time?
We’re gearing up to launch an experiential research project on a spirits brand for which we’ve researched for the past couple of years. One of the areas we emphasize...
Event Marketing ROI Versus Predicting Event Marketing ROI
Event marketing ROI (return-on-investment) comes in two forms in most of our work. And unfortunately, the two forms are often confused. The first is a planning tool and the...
The Ultimate Event Recap Template
Reporting on event recaps is a storytelling process. You need to guide your reading audience through an experience that helps them relive the activation and understand the impact and...
Recap Reporting, Brand Strategy, and Event Marketing Measurement (Part 5 of 5)
In the first four parts of this five-part series we talked about measuring event marketing, capturing the reach of your events, understanding event marketing impact, and event marketing ROI....
Recap Reporting, Brand Strategy, and Event Marketing Measurement (Part 4 of 5)
In this five-part series, we discussed the overall measurement strategy we recommend when you’re challenged with how to measure event marketing. It starts with getting a clear understanding of...
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...
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...
ROI Outside the Bottle
This week we presented an end-of-program recap report to our client on a mobile tour for laundry detergent. The research was standard and comparable to many experiential programs we...
Training Your Team on Event Marketing ROI Benchmarks
A big part of implementing a clear measurement and reporting process in your experiential agency is training your staff how to change the way they think and relate to...