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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...
Using Event Marketing Field Reports to Develop Actionable Insights
We just finished reviewing a recap report internally that will go to our agency client, and then the brand team, in the next couple of days. We really dug...
Making the Stretch With Survey Data Collection
You can only find out so much about a consumer within a single survey. It is simply a matter of time available. If you are asking someone a 25...
Measuring Member Satisfaction Goes a Long Way
When we’re not conducting research on experiential marketing programs, we’re directing our resources toward traditional market research. I periodically write research reports for different professional organizations. The most recent...
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...
How to Deal With Limited Demographics in Your Sample
Dealing with a limited demographic focus is to be expected when you conduct research. After all, no one is interested in everyone’s opinion on a product. Generally, you have...
Surveying the Target Consumer: How Many is Enough?
The PortMA team recently presented a comprehensive experiential marketing program recap to a spirits industry client. The objective that caught the most attention was surveying the right targeting consumer....
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...
Elevating Traditional Qualitative Methods with Technology
Technology has helped us to come a long way in how we conduct research – panel companies, online surveys, geocaching, etc. Researchers seem to have fully embraced elevating quantitative...