by Evelyn Starr | Apr 26, 2024 | Marketing Strategy, Marketing Tools & Tactics
This article is an updated version of one originally published November 9, 2018. I know the day I got on renown marketing consultant Mark Schaefer’s radar: October 25, 2017. My former client Dan Levine mentioned Mark to me earlier that year (thanks Dan!). I sent Mark...
by Evelyn Starr | Mar 14, 2024 | Brands In Adolescence
Two days before my daughter Fiona’s bat mitzvah in June 2013, my mother-in-law’s cousin Beth dropped off a beautifully-wrapped, 3 ½-inch square box. Inside were two Alex and Ani bracelets. One charm had a script initial F, the other had a Jewish star. I had never...
by Evelyn Starr | Feb 8, 2024 | Brand Experience, Personal Brand
A consultant friend recommended me to one of his colleagues who was searching for podcast guests, urging him to interview me. The colleague and I scheduled a 25-minute, get-to-know you meeting, standard with podcast hosts to see if you are good fit. The meeting was...
by Evelyn Starr | Dec 15, 2023 | Email Marketing, Marketing Tools & Tactics
My husband Dan had an anguished look a couple of weeks ago. He asked me a question that tugs at the heartstrings of any marketer. “How do I let a company I want to be in touch with know they are sending me too many emails?” Dan is an investment advisor. Investment...
by Evelyn Starr | Nov 9, 2023 | Brand Experience
After picking organic raspberries in Concord, Massachusetts one sweltering August Sunday, my husband Dan and I headed for refreshment to the Main Streets Market and Café in Concord Center. Main Streets Market and Café bustles all day with customers popping in to take...
by Evelyn Starr | Oct 13, 2023 | Brand Growth & Rebranding, Marketing Insights
I spent some quality time with David Sedaris a couple of weeks ago. David Sedaris is a renown writer and humorist who has authored 12 books. He tours regularly, reading his essays and gauging audience reactions. His book tours are famous for their long book signing...
by Evelyn Starr | Sep 15, 2023 | Brand Experience, Marketing Insights
When searching for family activities for our Paris vacation this summer, I found a 3-hour chocolate and patisserie walking tour. My definition of heaven, even on a sweltering late June day. Happily, my husband and two twentysomething children were game. The tour...
by Evelyn Starr | Aug 22, 2023 | Brand Experience, Brand Growth & Rebranding
The closest I’ve come to liking Elon Musk was during his SNL opening monologue on May 8, 2021. But it was never that close. I admired his courage to appear on the show and willingness to mock himself. His performance humanized him. He was funny in some skits. Yet my...
by Evelyn Starr | Aug 2, 2023 | Brand Growth & Rebranding, Brand Strategy
Updated August 7, 2023 I didn’t have a Barbie doll when I was growing up. That was by design. I asked my mother about that recently. She objected to Barbie’s “unrealistic female form.” She said, “this is the kind of idealized female body which few girls would...