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One facet of measuring experiential marketing programs in the spirits industry is seeing the different venues at which brand teams activate. The industry primarily distinguishes between on and off-premise venues...

Researchers use surveys to enter the mind of the consumer. An event marketing survey should be clear, concise, and provide relevant and impactful data. Survey design is not a...

There is typically a lot of anxiety around the launch of an event measurement project. Typically the stakeholders have… well… a lot at stake. They’re embarking on a process...

Event Marketers utilize post-event online surveys for a number of reasons: They can follow-up with event marketing attendees to find out how they feel and have acted about your event months...

A spirits brand for whom we have been conducting research during the past year-and-a-half has lately undertaken a unique experiential strategy: Cause Marketing. The brand is being promoted at events primarily designed to...

The most important part of any event marketing research project is to clearly and accurately define objectives. Before defining research objectives, you need to know three things: 1. A comprehensive understanding...

I had the pleasure of speaking with the team at Shopper Events about strategies for modeling return-on-investment (ROI) for retail product demos. One of the things we discussed was...

This is the third post in a series designed to help you overcome challenges inherent in writing. While the focus of these posts is on marketing report writing, these...

A lot goes into making sure gathering consumer feedback happens for a project. For field work, getting staff in field with a way to administer the survey quickly and efficiently...

PortMA conducted a national online survey in 2014 to help a client update their marketing strategy with their website and other promotional materials. The client was beginning to see a...