Reviewing a project a few weeks after it ends can offer some great insight into areas of improvement, either as a company or an employee. By taking the time...
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For Better or for Worse: Comparison in Experiential Marketing Research
Yesterday I had a quarterly recap review and year-to-year comparison with a client that I have been working with for over five years. I have worked with this client...
Event Marketing Field Staff Metrics That Are Out of the Box
I’ve been doing a lot of work with event marketing field staff data lately. This has given me some new perspective on what metrics help maximize the amount of...
How to Measure Product Trials
Conducting product trials is a great way to promote and measure brand awareness and perception. Product trials are more effective when followed up with a short survey to measure the...
How to Do a Focus Group at your Next Event (and Why)
A consumer event is great a place for any brand to participate. Where else can you engage consumers around your value proposition where they live, work, and play? Fairs...
Using Research to Measure Change and Assess Impact
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...
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....