by Evelyn Starr | Oct 12, 2018 | Brand Growth & Rebranding, Brand Strategy
Has someone you know ever changed their name? My mother-in-law changed her first name to Elanah right before I met her because she felt like a spiritually different person than before. I had no problem calling her Elanah because I had never known her by any other...
by Evelyn Starr | May 8, 2015 | Brand Growth & Rebranding, Brands In Adolescence, Marketing Insights
This past March marked the 30th anniversary of the movie The Breakfast Club. For those of you who might not know it, the movie portrays the gathering of five stereotypical high schoolers (a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal) for a day-long...
by Evelyn Starr | Apr 9, 2015 | Brand Growth & Rebranding, Brands In Adolescence
While many families chose warm weather destinations for the February school vacation, my son AJ and I took a road trip to Vermont and upstate New York. No, we are not skiers. Why would we choose a subzero-temperature week to travel to these northern locales? To look...
by Evelyn Starr | Jul 13, 2012 | Brand Growth & Rebranding, Brand Storytelling
As my husband Dan and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary in June, I thought of the odd American pop culture events that occurred the weekend we got married. The Friday night preceding our wedding, former football star OJ Simpson led the L.A. police on a...
