Interviews are important in the data gathering process because everyone sees the world differently. Yet, some common threads bind us together into distinct groups. These groups can be categorized...
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Segmenting Your ROI – Why You Should do it Every Time
The segmenting ROI model created by PortMA may be the most important metric of an experiential marketing campaign. It is a means of measuring the value of the results of multiple aspects of a campaign...
The Value of Measuring Event Marketing Data Year Over Year
At PortMA, we have great client retention. Why? Because we do great research. I have been with PortMA for four years. From day one I have been managing the...
The Metric Where Opportunity Is Hiding
You’re researching your brand’s market share and you discover that a large portion of the consumers you are reaching have purchased your product before, but not recently enough to be...
Case Study: Household Fixtures Tour
When a national household fixtures company wants to introduce a new product line to consumers and builders alike, they have a number of barriers to overcome. Awareness can be...
A New Look at Customer Retention
Consumer packaged goods are interesting, specifically because they have such low customer retention rates. With virtually no cost or other apparent downside to changing brands, people have little reluctance...
The Importance of Data Consistency
Consistency is a key component of any successful endeavor. Data consistency is especially important in administering experiential marketing. Questions must be presented with grammatic precision. Additionally, demographics must be...
Hitting the Marque With Spirits Sampling
We just delivered a third quarter recap report on a sampling campaign at special events in the spirits industry. Before the second phase of the program began in the...
Year-To-Year Impact Paints a Bigger Picture
This week we presented a recap report to our client measuring the impact of a mobile tour for an organization. The research strategy was modeled after the previous year...
Message to Market Match in Product Sampling
We presented the findings from a 17-week, 22-market sampling program today. The brand reached over 100,000 consumers over the course of 17 weeks with a message focused on new...