We recapped a three market sampling pilot for an agency partner today. It’s not uncommon for our agency partners to ask us to fly with them to the brands...
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Using Research to Know What You Don't Know
Qualitative research is a discovery process designed at it’s core to reveal things you didn’t even suspect might be true. (Survey research validates these assumptions.) We just finished a...
Measuring Events Is As Much Compassion As It Is Skill
We’ll be delivering a recap report tomorrow that highlights the success of a marketing campaign, the integration of that campaign into a sampling program, and how the combination of...
Purchase vs. Recommend: Which is Better?
In this industry, measuring a consumer’s propensity to buy or recommend a product is more than common, it’s a must. The majority of the surveys we work with ask...
Extending Your Agency Brand with Measurement
I wrote a strategy today that focused on building out a fully customized experiential measurement strategy that is unique to the one Agency and something no-one else will do....
Predicting The Future During a Project Launch
Today I got some great news. This PortMA greenhorn is taking on a couple of programs of his own!Now I don’t want to make it sound like I’m in...
3 Steps to Really Making Experiential Metrics Actionable
I’m writing this on a plane coming back from the first two cities of a four city tour. We’ve been measuring the impact of experiential marketing for one Fortune...
Samples Vs. Sampled
So you distributed over 9,000 samples during the week. That’s great! Now, more importantly, how many people sampled your product? This important distinction is commonly lost in reporting on...
Free Lunches Do Exist in Experiental Marketing
As the saying goes, there is no such thing as a free lunch. I have always held this as a fact of life, a warning even, not to trust...
The Importance of Hitting Your Target
When you spend as long as I do immersed in a world of data you learn to accept many things as essentially constant. You know that they don’t necessarily...