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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....

As consumers and customers, we use brand awareness to make purchase decisions. We do this almost on a daily basis throughout our lifetime. For this reason, it is vital...

Interviews are important in the data gathering process because everyone sees the world differently. Yet, some common threads bind us together into distinct groups. These groups can be categorized...

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...

Is there such a thing as too much data? Generally speaking, no. The more results you have, the better, right? In an ideal world, we would be doing a...

Last week I delivered a recap for a popular consumer foods company. It was a pilot program that could potentially be much bigger in the future. My Client wanted...

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...

Validity and integrity of data is paramount. I don’t need to spend a lot of time telling you that – you’re here on this blog because you (hopefully) have...

I’ve been involved in market research for so long that Palm Pilots were the hot giveaway at the first customer relationship management conferences I attended! Nobody would disagree that...

We wrapped up measurement on a 10-month sampling campaign for an adult beverage brand today. The program spanned 9 markets and distributed over 80,000 samples to more than 65,000...