An experiential marketing metric that we include in almost every measurement strategy is called recommend intent. It’s an often underrated metric because we so often focus on purchase intent,...
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Being Productive with Beethoven: Symphonies to Meet Your Reporting Deadlines
Sometimes a deadline is looming just ahead, and despite all of your experiential marketing expertise and the analysis on your client’s campaign so far, there is this sinking feeling...
Know Your Customers or Kiss Them Goodbye
Here at PortMA we measure attitudes and apply proven models to predict consumer behavior for companies on a regular basis. It’s at the core of what we do. Inevitably,...
How to Measure the Influence of Your Communication
All communication is an attempt to exert influence. We communicate verbally and non-verbally in a hundred different ways every day to help navigate the world we live in by...
The Science Behind Market Research
Research. It’s a word with so much meaning and so much variation. There are different forms of research (e.g., basic, applied) and different approaches (e.g., scientific, artistic) and because...
Wearing Two Hats: Perspective Matters in Efficiency
At a smaller company like PortMA, situations frequently arise where you are called to do work that falls outside of your typical job description. With a coworker out sick...
What You Need to Collect to Run PortMA’s ROI Model
I would say roughly half of PortMA’s clients are attracted to our company because we have developed a tried and true Return-On-Investment model that puts the estimated value generated...
What is an Event Marketing Impression?
Impressions are a common and important field staff reporting metric in the event marketing industry. Event marketing impressions are essentially how many individuals saw your brand’s advertising at an...
Remote Team-building at an Event Marketing Analytics Firm
Portland Marketing Analytics is headquartered in Portland, Maine. If you haven’t been, please visit. It’s a city that has collected more than its share of superlatives for its size,...
Data Speaks: Tell the Best Story With the Data That was Collected
The other day I proudly bought a book about how to display data in a way that is visually pleasing and enables readers to quickly understand what they are...