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A group of Khoi and San residents commemorated what would have been the late former President Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday by burning their Identity Documents on Wednesday at Port Elizabeth’s Donkin Hill.

They said that they no longer want to be classified as ‘coloured people’ anymore.

Despite South Africa attaining democracy in 1994, the Khoi-San say that they have no reason to celebrate as long as they are classified as coloureds while their language is not officially recognised.

There has been rising discontentment among various Khoi and San communities as they also feel they have been neglected by government despite history showing them as the first inhabitants of the land in Southern Africa.

Speaking to RNEWS, Chief Gaob Crawford Fraser said that “According to this government, we are still not born in this country because according to the Population Registration Act (Act No. 30 of 1950), a coloured person means a person, who is not a white person or a native - and a native means a person born in a particular place.”

He added; “The apartheid government classified us as people who were not born in South Africa and this government continues with the laws of the apartheid government and say that we are not born in South Africa.”

By burning their IDs, Chief Fraser said that they wanted to show the government that they mean business when they asked that they not be classified as ‘coloured’ as they are not coloured, but Africans.

When asked if they’d rather be called Khoi and San, Chief Fraser said: “We can’t be called Khoi and San because that is, who we are, the word Khoi means ‘human being’ so I can’t be called ‘human being’ because I am already a human being.

“We want to be called Africans for the sake of the population registration; we want to be referred to as the first indigenous people of Southern Africa.”

Chief Fraser added that they have been marginalised and discriminated against for long.

“I don’t want to live like that anymore and we want the government to understand that and if I don’t want to be discriminated against, I want to be respected and treated with dignity as a fellow citizen of this country because ‘coloured’ means you are not a fellow citizen of this country.”

They plan to visit government offices to inform officials that they must change the details on their system.

“On Thursday, we will go to Home Affairs to re-apply for new identity documents that do not label us coloured,” he said.

“If they refuse, then we are prepared to stage a sleep in at Home Affairs until they change the classification.”

Although there were a few Khoi and San, who came to join the protest, one of the organisers, Christian Martin, said that not everyone was in prison when Nelson Mandela was arrested.

“As I remember, it was not the whole of South Africa that was in prison before 1994, it was Mandela and a few others - so numbers are just numbers.

“We are representing all Khoi’s that could not make it here,” he described.

Meanwhile, the Chief of the Nama in Eastern Cape, Chief Vernon Hennings, said, “70% of the Xhosa language comes from our language and 50% of the Zulu language comes from our language, yet our language is not officially recognised.”

Janine Human added; “We are the oldest race in Africa, the first people in Africa and the world, but still we are fighting for recognition. It is time the government give us what we want because we are from this country, we didn’t come here by fate.”

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Tom ShapiroToday’s guest is Tom Shapiro, founder and CEO of the branding, web design, and marketing agency Stratabeat, Inc. Throughout his career, Tom has developed marketing strategies for more than a dozen Fortune 500 clients, including AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, and P&G. He also served as Director of Digital Strategy at iProspect for five years, a time that saw the agency grow from 85 to more than 700 employees.

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Welcome to the Brainfluence Podcast with Roger Dooley, author, speaker and educator on neuromarketing and the psychology of persuasion. Every week, we talk with thought leaders that will help you improve your influence with factual evidence and concrete research. Introducing your host, Roger Dooley.

Roger Dooley:    Welcome to the Brainfluence Podcast. I’m Roger Dooley. Our guest this week is Tom Shapiro. You may have seen his insights at,, Forbes, MarketingProfs, MediaPost, and many more. Tom is the CEO of Stratabeat, a branding, web design, and marketing agency in the Boston area. Previously, he was Director of Digital Strategy at iProspect during the period that the agency grew from 85 to more than 700 employees.

Tom’s new book is Rethink Your Marketing: 7 Strategies to Unleash Revenue Growth. Among other things today, we’re going to learn how putting sumo wrestlers on a basketball court turned around one NBA team’s fortunes. Tom, welcome to the show.

Tom Shapiro:      Thanks, Roger. Happy to be here.

Roger Dooley:    Great. Tom, I saw you spent five years at iProspect. Were you a search engine guy?

Tom Shapiro:      Yes, yes. That’s my background so I was at iProspect for five years, and that’s the agency that grew from 85 employees to over 700. I can explain during our talk today how exactly we rethought our marketing and accomplished that, but yeah, my roots are in search.

Roger Dooley:    Yeah, I spent some time in that industry, too, and it’s sort of a good background to have because it informs stuff that you do later on just like … I haven’t used my engineering degree in decades, but I feel like having that base of knowledge has helped me in many other fields. I think SEO was kind of the same way, particularly in digital marketing.

Tom Shapiro:      Absolutely. I completely agree with you. You know the way that I see it is search is simply looking inside the minds of your target audience, right? How do they think? How do they articulate their thoughts? What are they looking to do? What are they looking to accomplish? And in my experience, a lot of what we did was we had to kind of transform the way that companies approached search, where they were just kind of tacking it on at the end after they had developed their strategies, after they had developed their products, and-

Roger Dooley:    No, that never happened I don’t think.

I can tell you, more than once I got a call from a client, “Hey, we got our new website up, now can you do that SEO stuff to it?” Wanna blow your brains out.

Tom Shapiro:      So yeah and the key for us was educating and transforming companies’ approach so that they would use search for the insights, and it would feed the strategy, it would guide the strategy, and those were the most successful companies.

Roger Dooley:    Mm-hmm (affirmative). So, Tom, the title and theme of your book is “rethink.” Are businesses doing it wrong when they focus on sort of incremental improvements? You know, trying to do what they did yesterday only better and bigger?

Tom Shapiro:      Yes, they are doing it wrong. Tinkering around the edges just doesn’t work, but that is what you commonly see. And so you’ll see they might feel that they’re stagnant or they’re frustrated at the pace of growth, and so you just try and tinker and optimize what they have. Yet, if what you have is mediocre, if what you have is not producing results, it’s very, very challenging to have transformative results come out of that. And so what you really need to do is take bold, decisive action, implement very clear change in what you’re doing in order to have the biggest impact on your revenue.

I could give you countless stories that are included in the book that prove this out time and time again. It takes bold, decisive change in order to unleash revenue growth.

Roger Dooley:    Yeah well, I want to get to some of those stories, Tom, but I’m thinking that what you’re suggesting probably kind of triggers some risk aversion in people. We know that humans are loss-averse and risk-averse, and it’s certainly a safer strategy to say, “Okay well we’ll just increase this part of the budget 20% or try and do a little better conversion optimization to squeeze a little more out of the traffic that we’re getting,” and that kind of thing than to say, “Okay, we’re going to adopt a new revenue model,” or something of that nature.

Do you think it’s tougher for small businesses or big businesses to do the rethink process?

Tom Shapiro:      I think that it’s more difficult for larger organizations to actually execute on it. People at larger companies – and I have a lot of experience with Fortune 500, I’ve worked with dozens of companies in the Fortune 500 – and what you find is exactly what you’re saying. There’s a lot of risk aversion, and risk aversion really drives action at these companies. People do not want to lose their jobs, and so there’s a lot of risk aversion that comes into play.

There’s also a lot of groupthink which happens at larger organizations, where you might be in a room with ten of your colleagues and there’s an alpha dog in the room kind of guiding everyone towards one direction, and it can be very intimidating for you to speak up and propose something that’s radically, radically different. At smaller companies, it’s a lot easier, however, that doesn’t mean that you see small companies rethinking their marketing as often as, certainly, I would like to see, and I think that’s just human nature.

If you’re a marketer and you’re stagnant and you’re frustrated with your marketing, what tends to happen is you tinker, you try incremental improvements, you copy more successful competitors, you follow what’s being hyped in the media, and that just doesn’t work. You know, we had an enterprise software company say to us that, at the time that Pinterest came out and it was all the rage, they wanted a Pinterest strategy. And I said no. I said, “That’s a really bad idea for you because your audience doesn’t care about Pinterest.” And they said, “Nope. No, our CEO is demanding that we have a Pinterest strategy. We read about it all the time. It’s the shiny new object.” And against our advice, they went ahead with it, and it was a complete failure.

And so copying, looking at what the media is hyping, tinkering around the edges, these are all very, very common patterns, and none of them work.

Roger Dooley:    And you know, I suppose one thing that’s different between large and small organizations is that, in a big organization, an individual can have career prospects that are different than the company’s prospects, where in a small entrepreneurial organization a career and the business sort of rise and fall together. There’s no option. Either the business is successful and the entrepreneur is successful or not. So you get a little bit of that sort of divergence there, where some individuals may choose safe strategies that aren’t necessarily the best ones for the corporation.

Tom Shapiro:      Absolutely. Absolutely. And I can tell you that, even at smaller companies, if the company has been around a while, you might have thought processes that are rather ossified. They’re in a rut. They think the same way, and it’s very difficult for them to see other options.

So for example, one company that I had joined years ago was a Japanese localization firm. At the time, when I joined, they were inundated with phone calls, and they were very, very busy. Lots and lots of busy-ness, and no one had time for anything because they were so busy. But when I looked at what they were busy with, the orders that were coming in were for $50, $500, all very, very tiny requests, and so myself and some others at the firm proposed that we actually only focus on software companies as our target audience. We only work with software companies, to the extent that we should fire every client that was not a software company.

The reason being is, software companies have projects that might be $100 thousand, $500 thousand for one project, and a software company might have multiple products and then they have releases every year. And so to us that was just a far greater opportunity for growth, and it took some convincing of the owner at the time, who was a brilliant, brilliant guy, it’s just that he had been in the industry for a very long time, he had been with the company for a very long time, and so it wasn’t as obvious to him that we should rethink everything and get rid of half of business. And so he was great; he finally granted us our wish and allowed us to fire 50% of the clientele. We focused only on software companies, and from that point forward, within two years, we grew revenue by 250%. Our growth was so strong that the company was then acquired for a multiple of revenue by another firm in the industry.

So even at small companies sometimes, the longevity of someone being in the industry and seeing things done a certain way can be a barrier to rethinking your marketing.

Roger Dooley:    Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yeah that kind of reminds me a little bit of the Grasshopper story that you tell in the book, and they’re the phone company that was targeting small businesses and entrepreneurs. And those two groups seem to have a lot of overlap in needs. In fact, I would say that many people would probably used them either interchangeably or sort of hyphenate them, meaning that yeah, these two groups are mostly the same but … Explain what Grasshopper found about the difference in how they too had to shrink their market target to grow their business.

Tom Shapiro:      Right. So Grasshopper, as you mentioned, is a virtual phone systems company started by David Hauser and Siamak Taghaddos, and originally they were targeting small businesses as well as entrepreneurs. And yeah, a lot of people, as you say, Roger, might see those as very overlapping businesses. An entrepreneurial mindset is very, very different than, say, someone who’s operating a small business. And they were experimenting with new ways to drive growth, and one of the things that they found was, when they featured David and Siamak on their homepage as entrepreneurs and they really started appealing to the entrepreneurial message, their sales exploded. So then they started experimenting with, “Okay, well what if we only targeted entrepreneurs? We forgot about small businesses, and we only target entrepreneurs. Our entire message is about entrepreneurs, everything we do is focused on entrepreneurs and the specifics of what entrepreneurs would like in a product.”

And so they started going down that more targeted approach, and it even infiltrated all the marketing that they were doing. So for example, giving away 10 thousand complementary copies of Mark Cuban’s book, How to Win at the Sport of Business, so obviously something that’s very, very appealing to an entrepreneur. Or coming out with specific features that an entrepreneur would be willing to experiment with, but yet, say, an older, smaller business might hesitate trying new things. And what happened was, their business exploded and they grew to $30 million in revenue and they were ultimately acquired by Citrix for approximately $165 million. And it was all because they took these two seemingly overlapping groups and eliminated one of those groups and had a hyper-targeted approach.

Roger Dooley:    Mm-hmm (affirmative). That’s a really great lesson, and one other example that I love because it’s an Austin-based company and I know the people there is WP Engine, and probably many of our listeners have heard of them. They are a web-hosting company that does only WordPress hosting. They don’t really do other stuff there like most web hosting companies, and so I mean at first glance that seems like a crazy strategy. Like if you’re a web hosting company, you’ve got servers, you’ve got technicians, and so on, why would you arbitrarily restrict yourself to one particular piece of software, content management system, even one that’s the most popular on the web but … why would you do that?

And I know that I ended up switching my site to WP Engine, and it was a little bit painful. I actually had to have the site architecture changed a little bit so that it met their criteria. I had to eliminate a plug-in or two that was not compatible with their allowed plug-in list. And it seems like absolutely the wrong approach to business. You always think that you want to accommodate your customer needs and, “Oh if they need different architecture, okay yeah, we can work with that.”

But they really sort of laser-focused on super-efficient WordPress hosting, and for the companies that make a little bit of a sacrifice to do business with them or to get their site put up there and get it operating right, it ends up being a really great experience, very seamless, everything happens automatically. So I think even though, again, they seem to be restricting their target market in a way that would be foolish, it’s ending up making them more effective and successful. They’ve got customers all over the world, right?

Tom Shapiro:      They’re going global right now. I think they just opened a new office in Australia literally just a few weeks ago. And Roger, you’re correct; narrowing your focus, it’s counterintuitive, but oftentimes it can unleash growth. And exactly, that’s what WP Engine has done, and it enables them to think more convincingly, in a more compelling way to their target audience because they’re strictly focused on that target audience. Others who are more generalists can only scratch the surface of what WP Engine can talk about in terms of security, in terms of architecture, in terms of caching capabilities, in terms of site speed, in terms of even tech support.

You know, you call up tech support for a generalist in web hosting, and they are not engineers. They cannot solve your engineering and development challenges. You call up WP Engine, and they can all help you with your development challenges. They are actually the largest group of WordPress developers in the entire world, and so it’s very powerful when they can tell you that and you know that you have that type of backing on your website versus someone who may be just as focused on Joomla or might be focused just as much on Drupal websites and so, you know, they have knowledge, but it’s much more on the surface level.

And another thing that WP Engine did was, to compound their growth, was that they looked at how they were engaging with their audience and how other web hosting companies were marketing to their audiences. And a lot of it was on a technical level. And so what WP Engine did was went all in on content marketing, and not just on the technical side of things, but also on the marketing side of things, the digital experience side of things, helping companies realize all that they could achieve online. And so they went on an effort to 10x their content, they launched a separate website entirely around education called Torque Magazine, and then on top of that, they decided to launch another website called Velocitize which is strictly helping their target audience in becoming better digital marketers and understanding digital marketing to a much deeper degree.

And so they’re going all in on education. That even extends out to holding events, whether it’s here or in London, again just focusing on the digital experience and helping their clients develop better digital experiences rather than what a lot of other hosting companies do, which is really just focus on the technicalities and the price.

Roger Dooley:    I actually attended one of those events not too long ago, and I don’t want this to sound like a WP Engine commercial, so we probably ought to move on, but what I will do is include a link in the show notes for our listeners, and what I’ll try and do is contact the folks over there and see if they can offer our listeners any kind of a discount and then include that in the show notes too. So if somebody’s looking for that hosting change for WordPress, check the show notes page. But anyway … and that will be at

So let’s change gears a little here. You’ve got a section in the book that’s titled “Rethink How They Think” that focuses on using behavior science and psychology to do things differently. I know our listeners will enjoy that. What are some of the examples you can offer of doing that?

Tom Shapiro:      Sure, sure. So, Roger, I’m sure you’ve experienced this yourself and your listeners have experienced this, where you go to a website or you’re engaged with a brand and they are trying to explain everything to you. They’re trying to explain how great their product is or how great their service is, how great their company is, how many employees they have, how many offices they have, how great their technology is. They focus on explaining. And oftentimes, they’re just trying to throw as many details at you as possible.

And the problem is that that is marketing like an encyclopedia. It’s marketing like a dictionary. It just doesn’t work. Why? Because you’re not moving the target audience to action. And so Nielsen found that 90% of purchase decisions are actually made by the subconscious. Not by the conscious where we feel that we’re in full control and we’re aware of everything, but actually by the subconscious. And part of the reason for that is just the construction of the brain. The brain processes 11 million bits of sensory information through the subconscious, whereas you compare that to under 100 bits by the conscious mind. So 11 million bits versus less than 100 bits every second of every single day.

So that’s a huge differentiator in terms of the power of the subconscious. You know, you’re looking at 90% of purchase decisions being made by the subconscious, and then you say, “Okay well how can we appeal to the subconscious then more effectively?” And one of the ways of doing that is through emotional marketing. The neuroscientist Antonio Damasio found through his studies that, when people with damage to the part of the brain that triggers emotion try and make decisions, they have a very, very difficult time making any type of decision, certainly with purchase decisions especially, because they waffle endlessly. They can’t feel any emotions, right? So they can’t feel strongly about one option versus another. So whether you’re talking about having salmon versus meatloaf for dinner or whether you’re talking about buying product A versus buying product B, they can’t feel strongly enough one way or the other.

And so translate that for your brand and your marketing, and what that means is that your brand necessarily has to be evoking an emotional response out of your audience in order to drive them to action, to purchase from you, to engage with you, to fill out your site form, whatever it might happen to be. And so it’s really this subconscious level and this emotional level that is much more effective. Also on the subconscious level, you can look at the vision system. Make your marketing as visual as possible to connect on a subconscious level. The human brain processes visual 60 thousand times faster than text. That’s not 6 times faster, it’s not 600 times faster, we’re talking about 60 thousand times faster. Half of the brain’s neurons are dedicated to the vision system.

Just to give you an example from the book Brain Rules by John Medina.

Roger Dooley:    Yeah, that’s one of my favorites.

Tom Shapiro:      Yeah, it’s a fantastic book, and I’d recommend it to all of your listeners.

So he gives this example where a group of neuroscientists gather some of the world’s best wine tasters in the epicenter of wine country, Bordeaux, France. And they gathered 54 of these individuals and they handed them a glass of wine. So each person received one glass of wine. The wine was actually a white wine, however, before handing over the glass, they secretly added odorless red dye to the glass. And so it looked like red wine. And in wine circles, there’s very, very different vocabulary that’s used for describing white wine versus red wine, and they asked each of these 54 wine specialists to describe the wine that they were drinking. And remember, it was actually white wine, but the color made it appear as if it was red wine. And so you might think that they could fool a few of the best wine tasters in the world, but actually what happened was it fooled all of them, all 54. And that is the power of color in appealing to the subconscious.

Roger Dooley:    Right. Well wine is a great metaphor for persuasion and psychology because it’s a fairly nebulous product that, as you point out, even experts can be fooled so … There have been all kinds of experiments about expectations and expensive wine tasting better than cheap wine and even, not only tasting better in how people describe it, but even lighting up their brain a little bit more when it was an expensive wine, so they actually experienced a better wine. And most often, too, it’s Two-Buck Chuck, which is a inexpensive Trader Joe’s product that’s mass-produced, and it’s great for psychologists because A, it’s cheap and … since it’s mass-produced, it doesn’t vary much from bottle to bottle or year to year or batch to batch. It’s pretty much the same.

So I could do probably a whole episode or two here at the podcast on wine stuff. That’s a good idea. Maybe we’ll do that. You know, you’ve also got a chapter on rethinking your marketing mix, Tom, and it reminded me of my time in the higher-ed space. My business then was College Confidential, and we had built the busiest website for college-bound students and parents. Actually, it still is, but it’s no longer ours. We sold it years ago. And we were just crushing the competition from a traffic and engagement standpoint. Our metrics were off the chart, but we had a lot of difficulty selling ads to colleges and universities, who were the logical advertisers because these people were coming there to learn about the admissions process and to search for colleges.

But what we saw was that, in higher-ed in particular I guess, things change kind of slowly, and the decision makers tend to repeat what they did the previous year. And we ended up solving the issue by … acquired by a much larger firm that had existing contracts with schools and a dedicated sales force with strong relationships, so they’re able to more forcefully redirect some of that business. But do you see that in other industries too that … you know, every year businesses pay for exhibit space at a conference because well, they always do it, and, “Hey, the competition’s gonna be there, so we have to be,” and you know, making decisions that aren’t really informed very well?

Tom Shapiro:      Absolutely. Absolutely. And so I’ll give you a very personal example, though my prior employer, iProspect, is your marketing agency. So when I joined the company, iProspect was very dedicated to very, very large conferences, and they’d been doing them forever and spending literally hundreds of thousands of dollars every year on large conferences because that’s the way it had always been done. And it took nine years for the company to grow to 85 employees; I was the 85th. And myself and a colleague an idea of, well, these conferences are useful from one perspective. However, they’re also really challenging because you have 25 or 35 or 50 of your competitors exhibiting right next to you and talking to all the same people and so it’s very difficult for a conference attendee to remember each of the conversations that they had if they’re talking with competitors.

And so we said, “Well what if we did the exact opposite? What if we rethought everything about conferences and we did the exact opposite, and instead of trying to get in front of thousands of people all at once, what if we only got in front of a few, but they were the right ones and it was only us, no competitor?” And so we launched a local event in Chicago, invitation only, and only ten people showed up. And Roger, you would think, okay, going from thousands of people to ten is a really stupid marketing decision, but again, we wanted to rethink things and just experiment and try something drastically different from what everyone else was doing in the industry.

And so we had ten people show up to this first local happy hour event, and we wound up getting a multi-million dollar contract from one of the attendees, and a six-figure contract from another one of the attendees. So we tried another local happy hour event, and again, not too many people showed up, but again we got another multi-million dollar contract out of it. So we kept on doing this, and we turned it into a road show and did it all over the country. Very quickly it became the number one leads driver for the agency, and, as I mentioned, the agency went from 85 employees to over 700 in five years. And so very, very powerful stuff. Now if we had only kept with what everyone else was doing and focusing strictly on these larger events, this never would have happened, but by rethinking, flipping event marketing on its head, doing the exact opposite of what everyone else was doing, and even the exact opposite of what we had been doing previously, this never would have happened.

Roger Dooley:    Mm-hmm (affirmative). You know, you’ve got some great stories in the book, Tom. As an author, I’m curious. Some of these stories are from your own experience, like that one, which is great. There are quite a few others from different times, different industries, and so on. How did you find these stories? How’d you do your research to get those?

Tom Shapiro:      Right. So a lot of it was reaching out to brands which I knew had either rethought their marketing and accomplished a great deal or had a very specific story to tell in terms of rethinking their marketing, whether it was rethinking their audience targeting or rethinking their marketing mix or rethinking their marketing metrics they were following, and literally just reaching out to these individuals. So for example, if you remember the transformation of Domino’s, where several years ago they came out with a campaign revealing that their own customers were describing their pizza as tasting like cardboard or that their sauce tasted like ketchup. And typically a brand would try everything to hide this type of customer feedback, but Domino’s did the exact opposite and they flipped it on its head and they were 100% transparent with everything. They came clean and they walked the customer base through how they were going from customers describing their pizza as cardboard to trying to come up with something completely new based on this feedback.

And so I love that story, and I literally just reached out to the president of Domino’s and I asked him if we could talk about the story together. And Roger, he was one of the most gracious, nicest human beings you could ever imagine. Got back to me immediately, got on the phone with me for over an hour, and simply was just very, very truthful and transparent in describing how they went about this transformation. And he spoke to some great principles in rethinking your marketing. He said, “Look, if you are going to transform your marketing, you have to be 100% authentic, and that doesn’t mean being 96% authentic and then hiding the stuff that you don’t want your audience to know. It means literally being 100% authentic.”

And so they would even go to the extremes of … One time there was a customer who had ordered pizza. The pizza came to the woman’s house, and along the delivery route, the cheese and the toppings had slid off of the crust of the pizza.

Roger Dooley:    Oh I hate it when that happens.

Tom Shapiro:      I think we all do. And so, rightfully, she was angry and she was upset. And so she called Domino’s and complained. And so what do you think they did?

Roger Dooley:    Well they probably didn’t come out and slide the cheese back onto it. What did they do?

Tom Shapiro:      Domino’s called a TV station and had reporters come and cover the story. That’s right. It was Domino’s that called the TV station, not the woman. The woman just wanted another pizza. Domino’s wanted to transform their brand and the brand experience. And so they said, “This can never ever ever happen.” And so they had a TV crew come out and film it and showing Domino’s coming through with a better pizza, but really shaming the local Domino’s outlet that had allowed this bad customer experience to happen.

And so you can imagine, that is very transformative in getting every single employee across the country to understand just how critical it is to deliver superior customer experiences every single time. And you know, to have that type of authentic storytelling in your marketing, again, it hits your audience on a very subconscious level. Rather than explaining how great your pizza is and how great it tastes, instead, they’re connecting with audiences on a very emotional, subconscious level. Very, very powerful. Since the time of the pizza transformation, Domino’s has become the number one fastest growing restaurant in the entire country.

And Roger, I’m not just talking about pizza, and I’m not just talking about fast food. We’re talking about every single category in the food space. They are the fastest growing.

Roger Dooley:    Hmm. Very good. And it must have been a slow news day to cover a sliding pizza, but even so, that’s impressive. Very few companies would think about doing that. Tom, at the start I teased about sumo wrestlers ending up in NBA arenas. Why don’t you tell that story?

Tom Shapiro:      Sure, sure. This is one of my favorites in the book. The New Jersey Nets – at the time they were the New Jersey Nets – were a horrible, horrible basketball team, and back in the day, they would just lose and lose and lose. They were experts at losing, and so a new president came on board, Spoelstra, and what Spoelstra did was, he decided to rethink absolutely all the marketing that the Nets were doing, and instead of trying to hide that the Nets were a bad team, he wanted to think of new ways to connect on a subconscious level with their target audience.

So for example, what Spoelstra would do was he would market the other team’s superstars, and at the time that was unthinkable. Nowadays it’s commonplace. Everyone has stolen Spoelstra’s strategies, but at the time that was unthinkable. And so, at the time, Michael Jordan was huge or Scottie Pippen, whoever it might happen to be, Dr. J … And so he would promote the other team’s players. He would try and turn an NBA game, instead of being something where winning and losing mattered, he turned it into this entertainment extravaganza, and they would have fireworks literally within the indoor stadium, and they’d have all these spectacles during breaks.

One of the spectacles, as you’re saying, they would have sumo wrestlers dribbling up and down the courts and slam dunking at either end of the court during breaks of the game. And that was actually the favorite part of the fan experience was seeing these sumo wrestlers dunking the ball.

Roger Dooley:    They were probably hoping the Nets would sign one or two of them.

Tom Shapiro:      Right. They were certainly better than the Nets at the time. And so, you know, you might say, “Okay well all of this outrageous marketing, it’s fun, it’s interesting, but what did it do for business results?” Well, actually, ticket sales went through the roof. Ticket sales more than tripled, and their sponsorships exploded. I think there was a 20 times increase in sponsorships for the team in just three years. And so it’s not just that rethinking your marketing can be fun and outrageous and you have these fun stories to tell, but it really impacts the bottom line, and as you can see through what Spoelstra was able to do with the Nets, it really is a very concrete, specific strategy for unleashing your revenue growth.

Roger Dooley:    Yeah it’s almost a minor league baseball marketing strategy where, you know, the product on the field is not exceptional most of the time so you have to do other stuff, and that’s why they have all these event nights and fireworks nights and this night and that night and on-field entertainment between innings and so on, just because they want to make it an event because people are not coming out just to see pure baseball.

Tom Shapiro:      Absolutely, and Jon Spoelstra was really the founder of that type of marketing in professional sports. A lot of organizations, a lot of leagues, have copied what he wound up doing with the Nets. You can see just how powerful his rethinking of marketing was.

Roger Dooley:    Great. Well, that’s probably a pretty good point to remind our audience that we’re speaking with Tom Shapiro, CEO of Stratabeat and author of Rethink Your Marketing: 7 Strategies to Unleash Revenue Growth. Tom, how can people find you and your content online?

Tom Shapiro:      Sure. You can go to, which is the book website. There are links to Amazon to purchase the book, there are blog posts, resources there. You can also go to my Twitter feed, which is simply You can go to our agency website, so that’s, and we have hundreds of blog posts, a lot of them on principles of rethinking your marketing as well.

Roger Dooley:    Great. Well we will link to all those places on the show notes page at, and we’ll have a text version of our conversation there too. Tom, thanks for being on the show.

Tom Shapiro:      Thanks so much, Roger. Really appreciate it.

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After Donald Trump won the election last November, many women began to anticipate restrictions and rollbacks on women's health rights. What perfect timing, then, for the Hulu Original show The Handmaid's Tale to premier this past spring. It certainly felt like a frighteningly well-time dystopian warning sign for the U.S.A. And this Halloween, a DIY Handmaid's Tale costume would be the perfect way to make a cultural statement that won't cost you a fortune.

The Handmaid's Tale is based on Margaret Atwood's popular novel of the same name. It tells the story of Offred, who is a "handmaid," or a woman held hostage by wealthy families, raped by the powerful husbands and forced to bear their children in a futuristic United States where most of the women are infertile. It's graphic, but it's the kind of critical art that could help prevent the restriction of women's rights to the point that they become nothing more than the wombs they were born with.

During his candidacy, Trump supported the idea that women should have to go to another state to get an abortion if the procedure becomes illegal in their home state; and, in the past, he's made derogatory remarks about breastfeeding mothers women and women in general. The president's comments are a direct attack on who women are and the lives they lead — his advocacy that we restrict abortion rights will endanger women's health and economic security. Trump has made the personal political for many women, and that's the statement a a Handmaid's Tale costume makes. Many people don't have the luxury of separating any part of their existence from Trump — even on Halloween.

If you're feeling like taking a stand with this costume, you're going to need three basic things to bring the look into life: a red dress, a robe/cloak, and the infamous bonnet. There are so many variations of this that it can make your head spin. But a frugal approach is actually quite simple. Here's a DIY Handmaid's Tale costume that won't break the bank.

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You could buy your own, like this Handmaid's Cloak with Hat Costume ($70, Amazon). You can also make it pretty easily by following this YouTube tutorial by JacquielLongLegs. Making it yourself will be more cost-effective, but it does require some serious sewing machine skills.

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It's almost impossible to get a perfect replica of the dress, unless you're willing to pay upwards of $100 on Etsy, like the Handmaid's Tale Costume - Dress, bonnet, and bag ($143, Etsy). If you're wanting to go the cheaper route, a blood red, floor length gown will work, like this Maxi V Neck Flare Long Sleeve Prom Evening Dress ($21, Rose Wholesale) or this Maxi Dress ($55, eShakti).

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This cloak will be great to keep you warm if it's cold outside. Try this Black and Red Reversible Halloween Cape Costume ($22, Amazon).

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The handmaids wear black slouchy boots. Try something similar, like these Lace-Up Desert Booties ($39, Charlotte Russe). Any boots you already own will also work. The key is that they're flat and dark brown.

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In the show, all the handmaids carry around a white crossbody satchel. Adding this to your costume will be great for carrying your wallet, phone, or any extra candy your little ones collect on Halloween. Try this long-handled tote bag ($2, Totebag Factory). Now you're ready to trick-or-treat / fight the patriarchy.

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The Ontario native agreed to a two-year contract extension with Edmonton in July after amassing 34 points (13 goals, 21 assists) in 82 games in 2017-18. However, the Oilers also signed Kyle Brodziak five days prior to compete with Strome for minutes as the team's third-line center. Over the past three seasons, Strome has secured at least 28 points -- a far cry from his 50-spot in 2014-15. The 24-year-old center has been known to go on incredibly hot and cold streaks throughout a given campaign, which is why he is best deployed in the deepest of leagues or perhaps serving as a budget option in select daily fantasy formats. Read Past Outlooks
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Strome recorded an assist in Wednesday's 5-0 win over the Islanders.
Strome's first point with the Rangers had to feel extra sweet coming against one of his former teams. The Islanders' first-round (fifth overall) selection in the 2011 draft, Strome hasn't reached 35 points since notching 50 in his sophomore season, but hopefully another change of scenery is what he needs after a move to Edmonton failed to reignite his career.
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Strome wasn't much better in 2016-17 than he was the year before, and the Islanders -- longing for the 2014-15 edition of the 2011 draft’s No. 5 overall pick -- ran out of patience, shipping him off to the Oilers in exchange for Jordan Eberle. Not that skating next to John Tavares (when he got to do so) was a bad gig, but the talented 24-year-old will presumably get a crack at playing alongside superstar Connor McDavid on an Edmonton team that’s thin at right wing. Whether he'll be able to take advantage and return to his 50-point ways of two years ago remains an open question, though, as Strome doesn't have any playing-time guarantees. His performance in training camp may go a long way toward determining his fantasy value for this season.
After scoring 50 points in his first full season in the NHL, expectations were sky-high entering last season for Strome, the fifth-overall selection in 2011. Expectations did not meet reality however, as he contributed just eight goals and a total of 28 points, while his plus-minus plummeted from plus-23 the year before to minus-9 in a season where he was both a healthy scratch on numerous occasions and demoted to AHL Bridgeport. Going forward, Strome will look to right the ship and get back to the productive ways he flashed as a rookie as a member of the Isles’ top-six forward group. All of this, of course, depends on the team’s ability to retain Strome, who is still a restricted free agent. As such, he’s going to want to take every opportunity to prove his worth heading into his next contract, so he might not be the worst player to take a stab at this season given that extra incentive.
In his first full season for the Islanders, Strome quickly demonstated why he was chosen with the fifth overall pick back in 2011. After producing high scoring totals for AHL Bridgeport but delivering underwhelming results during his trial in the NHL in 2013-14, Strome came out with a vengeance this past season, scoring 17 goals and 33 assists for the Isles while being moved around from line-to-line. Strome, like so many others, benefitted by playing alongside John Tavares, but showed a knack for scoring goals even when he wasn't paired with No. 91. He also led the team with a plus-23 rating. At 6-foot-0 and 180 pounds, Strome isn’t afraid to throw his body around, aggressively forechecking and creating problems for opponents in their own zone. Likely slotting in with Anders Lee and Frans Nielsen on the team’s second line to begin the upcoming campaign, Strome will look to build off last season’s success as he develops into one of the league’s more dynamic point scorers.
How the Islanders handle Strome during training camp is certainly something worth watching. Strome is a highlight reel waiting to happen, but it’s not yet apparent where he might play. Though he’s a natural center, the Islanders need a top-line wing to join John Tavares and Kyle Okposo, and Strome certainly has the talent to fill that void. The Islanders have resisted the temptation to move Strome to the wing in the past, but with the team already loaded at the center spot, it would seem a waste of the 21-year-old’s abilities to drop him to a checking line. If Strome does indeed end up occupying the left wing spot on the top line, he should also be moved up your draft rankings accordingly. A trio of Tavares, Okposo, and Strome could represent one of the best young lines in the NHL.
Strome is the Islanders top offensive prospect. He has the tools and the talent to be a top-line player. With Niagara of the OHL, he scored 34 goals and added 60 assists in 53 games. He is a player worth watching and is expected to break camp with the Islanders. Another interesting tidbit is that the Isles are toying with the idea of moving him to wing. This transition would allow the team to pair him on the top line with John Tavares and Matt Moulson, forming what could be one of the top 10 scoring lines in the NHL.
Strome could be the crown jewel of the Islanders organization. A top line center that defenses will have to account for, he is a playmaker that could embarrass a defender with his stickhandling at any moment. Strome has scored 63 goals to go with 111 assists over the past two seasons in the OHL, along with being voted in the top three for playmaker, stickhandler, and mental acumen in an OHL poll of Eastern Conference coaches. Islander fans are awaiting his arrival but it still may not be this season as the Isles are being very careful about their top prospect. A strong camp could force their hand but smart money has him making his debut either in the middle of the season, or next year. Strome should definitely be a target for those in keeper leagues, as he's going to a special player.
Strome was the Islanders' first- round pick (5th overall) in this year's NHL draft. He is super talented and could finally be the player that puts the Isles back in the highlight reel as there doesn't seem to be anything he can't do on the ice. Strome had 33 goals and 73 assists in the OHL last season, and is also not afraid to play a physical game as he had 82 PIMs to boot. He is unlikely to begin the season with the Isles as they don't want to rush him, but he is way too talented to stay away from the big club for long. In keeper leagues, he is a player you should be targeting at the draft.
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When you leave your dog with a sitter, you want to leave with peace of mind and trust that your dog will not only be safe, but loved. Adriana will give you that peace of mind. She'll baby your baby and treat him/her as her own. She'll send photos and videos daily to back it up. And when you go to pick up your dog, he/she won't rush to leave. And that's when ...

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We have left our dog Nhumy with Adriana twice and are about to do so a third time. She's communicative, caring, and friendly. Our pup always comes home looking like she had the time of her life. We appreciate Adriana's daily (sometimes multiple times daily) updates on what Nhumy is up to and prompt responses to all communications. Trustworthy and responsible.

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About Adriana

years of experience
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Home FT & I'll run with your dog!

I remember as a child bonding closely to the animals on my aunt's farm. Ever since, I knew I had a special connection to animals, especially dogs.

Working from home offers me more time to give your fur-child loads of attention, belly rubs and plenty of play time!

As an experienced pet parent, it's my goal as a sitter to be fully attentive, read body language, and be a vessel of abundant affection to make ...

What Adriana would like to know about your dog

No breed preferences.
I always like to have a little insight into the dog's personality and behavior...
•high/low energy
•food aggression
•separation anxiety
•dog friendly
•generous barker
•dietary restrictions
•potty and food schedule

Additional Skills
Oral Medication Administration
Senior Dog Experience
Can provide daily exercise
Injected Medication Administration
Special Needs Dog Experience

About Adriana's Home

Lives in an Apartment
Non-Smoking Household
No Children Present
Does Not Have a Yard
Has No Dogs

When Adriana watches your pet

We can run, (2-4 miles, depending on the dog's energy), around the Brentwood Country Club/golf course, that is lined with trees and plenty of foliage. We can take long strolls to explore the neighborhood, which is very dog friendly!

In Adriana's Home

Dogs Allowed On Bed
Potty Breaks Every 2-4 Hours
Dogs Allowed On Furniture

Adriana's Neighborhood

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Plant Mechanic | Kalgoorlie Residential | 7/3/7/4 Roster

Location: Perth
Job Type: Temporary
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Rubicor Workforce are seeking multiple Plant Mechanics to work for one of the largest Mining Equipment Manufacturing companies in the world at their Kalgoorlie location in WA.

• Kalgoorlie Residential 7/3/7/4 Roster
• Carry out repairs, maintenance and servicing on a range of Equipment
• Identifying and recommending preventative maintenance on equipment
• Previous CAT dealer experience preffered
• Exposure to underground Equipment such as AD45-55 and R1700-2900's

• Trade Certificate with a minimum of 3 years post trade experience
• HR Driver's licence
• High Risk Forklift Licence and Working at Heights

If you feel that you possess the above criteria and are interested in being considered for the position, please apply now.


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Lucille Green

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‘Life better now Lucille can hear clearly’

Port Lincoln woman Lucille Green will enjoy the sounds of Christmas this year after suffering from poor hearing since 2005.

Mrs Green, 75, is looking forward to a proper hearing Christmas this year thanks to the cochlear implant she received in September.

She started to lose her hearing in 2005 but in February this year it became acute, and in desperation she contacted the South Australian Cochlear Implant Centre to enquire about getting a cochlear implant.

“I rang them and said ‘please help me’,” Mrs Green said.

“I am a social person and enjoy golf and lawn bowls and my hearing had become so bad that I knew I was missing much of what was going on around me.

“During my weekly card game, I really didn’t have a clue what was being said.”

Mrs Green had her operation in August and her implant was switched on a month later.

Since then she has been happier and more relaxed and she said her friends and family could not believe the difference in her personality since the implant.

“I am now more outgoing and relaxed, like I was before all my hearing issues began,” Mrs Green said.

“The best thing is being able to talk and communicate in small groups of people.”

“I’ve been told I look a lot happier, I know I certainly feel a lot happier,” she said.

Mrs Green is looking forward to playing golf next year, but her bowls is already more enjoyable because she can better interact with other players.

The sounds of nature are also a welcome change.

“I can now hear thunder and rain on the roof, dogs barking, people at bowls talking around me and to me, and best of all, birds singing and the sounds of nature.

“All these sounds most take for granted, but when you haven’t heard them for many years, to hear them again is indescribably wonderful.”

Watching television was also like watching a silent movie but now she can watch television at normal hearing levels.

She will enjoy her first Christmas since getting an implant with her daughter in Queensland.

Mrs Green said last Christmas her hearing was poor but this year she was looking forward to taking part in all the fun and banter around the table at Christmas lunch.

“And not missing a thing,” she said.

She praised the work of the SA Cochlear Implant Centre.

Mrs Green said the staff there were supportive and patient, and made her feel relaxed about the whole process.

“I can’t speak highly enough of them,”she said.

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Eureka To Receive Funding For Road Construction

Eureka To Receive Funding For Road Construction
Eureka To Receive Funding For Road Construction

I’m Ed Smith, a Eureka car accident lawyer. Eureka, as well as cities all over the area including Arcata, McKinleyville, Fortuna, and rural locations of Humboldt County, are expected to receive over 110 million dollars in California State funds over a ten year period. The money was determined to be granted through Senate Bill 1, a measure that should give Humboldt, Mendocino, and Del Norte Counties funds to improve the safety of their roadways. These safety improvements could mean a significant reduction in the number of serious car accidents that take place across the area.

Projects Overview

According to Matt Rocco, a spokesperson for Caltrans, the money will be used to complete various projects including bridge construction, safety striping for dangerous roadways, and more. In Humboldt, much of the money is expected to go toward filling potholes, repaving roads, upgrading bridges, repairing public buses, and improving road safety for bicyclists and pedestrians.

For many areas, the increased roadway construction budget will help to address a long list of uncompleted projects that have not been able to receive funding. These projects have already been approved by city and county governments, but have remained incomplete due to a lack of funds.

Eureka’s Budget

Brian Gerving, the director of Eureka Public Works, stated that the city expects to receive around $450,000 annually from State Bill 1 funds. Gerving noted that Eureka currently receives about $200,000 yearly for roadway work from gasoline tax revenue, meaning that the city will have triple the amount of money budgeted for road improvement once the additional funds are released.

Potential Problems

Despite excitement about improved traffic safety and less auto accident injuries in the area, some residents are worried that the funding may be cut off. Proposition 6, a measure on the November ballot in California, could do just that. Proposition 6, if passed, will halt collection on fees added by State Bill 1 in April 2017 by Governor Jerry Brown as part of a $54 billion infrastructure expenditure funded through increased gasoline taxes and vehicle costs.

If the proposition is passed, it could mean that over 100 planned projects across Humboldt County will come to a halt. These projects include repaving 80 miles of Highway 101, improving key roadways in Eureka, paving roads in Arcata, revamping 12 bridges and repairing public transport vehicles. To see a list of area roadway construction projects, visit this site.

Roadway Defects

Usually, vehicle accidents are caused by a reckless driver who was driving negligently in some way. Whether they were driving while distracted, under the influence, or breaking traffic regulations like speed limits, these reckless drivers can be held responsible for their negligence and made to pay for the damages they’ve caused.

However, sometimes obvious roadway defects like potholes, poor visibility, or a lack of proper signage can cause accidents without a driver behaving negligently. In these cases, government entities responsible for maintaining those roads are sometimes liable to pay for damages related to the crash. To learn more about how you can recover for accident damages, contact an experienced car accident lawyer.

More by Ed Smith, Eureka Car Accident Lawyer

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I’m Ed Smith, a Eureka car accident lawyer. When crashes occur, they often leave people with serious injuries. If you or someone you know has received injuries in an accident, call me for free, friendly case advice. You can reach me at (707) 564-1900, (800) 404-5400, or by visiting my website.

For 36 years and counting, I’ve assisted residents of Eureka with claiming fair payments for wrongful death and serious personal injury damages.

My client ratings can be found at:

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Horndean Technology College

Horndean Technology College (HTC) is a large secondary school with over 1300 students attending the college. The college is situated in a semi-rural setting in the county of Hampshire in the United Kingdom. There are approximately 200 staff on site who help run the college by leading, teaching or support the learning of the students that attend the college. All staff and students that attend or work at HTC are issued an outlook email account to use only for relevant college work. The accounts have various filters to prevent SPAM from clogging up the in boxes of our staff and students.

Staff and students use their outlook account to communicate to each other and to pass on information, share documents and set tasks. Often staff send confidential emails to each other that contain documents and information about the students in the college. There is not an issue within the college when emails are shared between staff at the college but if emails are shared with external persons data protection beaches can occur.

Over the last year we have been looking for a product to use as an add-on to our outlook email provision to alert the sender if they are sending an email to a person who is not on our Active directory and hence an external address. We trailed several products via a team of ten staff who have different roles in the college. The stand out product was SafeSend as it was so simple to use and although not important to the users it was very simple to implement. SafeSend does not stop our users from sending to external addresses but through the simple pop-up system all our users cannot send external emails without knowingly select the addresses in the pop up. This simple method gives us as an organisation confidence in our security control that we have minimised the occurrence of a data breach through our email system as much as we can.

Not only is SafeSend quick and easy to install, integrating seamlessly into our email software, but the team at SafeSend were also extremely professional and supportive, making the entire process of introducing it within our organisation that much easier

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Underclass uprising: Servants gain the upper hand in San Diego Opera's ‘The Marriage of Figaro’

It’s been nearly a dozen years since San Diego Opera produced Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” which returns on Saturday as the company’s season-opening production.

In the intervening years, much has changed at San Diego Opera and in the public consciousness. That might make the 18th-century opera’s plot — about an Italian count’s plot to deflower a reluctant female servant — extremely tricky in today’s #MeToo age.

But sensitive opera-goers needn’t worry. “The Marriage of Figaro” is a comedy/drama and the women characters are the true stars of this show. They amusingly upend the Count’s plot and destroy his sense of entitlement by the final curtain.

Soprano Sarah Shafer, who is making her role debut as the servant in question, said the subject of #MeToo did come up in rehearsals. But she said her character Susanna — who is engaged to the Count’s fellow servant Figaro — is no wilting violet.

“She’s the smartest person in the room,” said Shafer, 30, of Philadelphia. “We’re trying to tell the story sensitively, but at the same time, our job is to tell the story he wrote.”

“The Marriage of Figaro” was based on a popular 1784 play by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais that was so sharply critical of religion and politicians that the French king Louis XVI banned it from the stage.

To get around the Viennese censors in 1786, Mozart hired an Italian librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, and played down the political and religious satire, focusing instead on the story's romantic intrigues.

“The Marriage of Figaro” was a sequel to Beaumarchais' hugely popular “The Barber of Seville.” The story picks up three years after Count Almaviva has married Rosina (with the help of the wily barber, Figaro) and now it’s Figaro's turn to wed.

But Almaviva’s marriage to the Countess has grown stale and the bored Count tries to seduce Figaro's bride-to-be, Susanna, under the ancient custom of droit du seigneur, which allowed a lord to deflower a servant's bride before her wedding night. To get back at the Count, Figaro, Susanna and the heartbroken Countess conspire to trap Almaviva at his own game.

The lavish period period scenery and costumes that local audiences will see is a new co-production owned by San Diego Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Philadelphia and Palm Beach Opera.

Stephen Lawless has directed the productions in all four cities. His past San Diego Opera credits are “Il trovatore” in 2007 and “The Elixier of Love” in 2014. Conductor John Nelson leads the San Diego Symphony in his company debut.

All four of the principal singers, including Shafer, are making their company debuts: Baritone John Moore plays Count Almaviva, bass-baritone Evan Hughes is Figaro and soprano Caitlin Lynch is the Countess.

Lynch launched her professional career 11 years ago playing the Countess at Michigan Opera Theatre and it remains the role she’s performed more than any other in the years since, including at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

“I love her and feel connected to her,” Lynch said of the Countess. “I think the role is clicking for me now, and it’s deepened because I have more to draw on. She’s independent and she’s dealing with depression. I’ve had depression and difficult relations that I can draw on, too.”

Lynch lives in Detroit with her husband Jonathan Lasch, a full-time voice professor at Wayne State University. They have three children: son Brody, 6, and daughters Marvel, 3, and Foster, 1.

She said juggling a family and a busy opera career is complicated, but she’s grateful to have both. Her grandmother was a mezzo-soprano who gave up her opera career to have 18 children. Her mother, soprano Mary Callahan Lynch, had a long career with Michigan Opera Theatre but was never able to pursue her career in New York or abroad because of family reasons.

“She was pregnant with me when she was singing Gretl (in Humperdinck’s “Hansel und Gretl”),” Lynch said. “I grew up feeling more comfortable singing than speaking, and I sang in choirs my whole life.”

After earning a voice degree at the University of Michigan, Lynch fled for a year to Boston to get away from the family business of opera singing for a while.

“I had to figure out whose dream I was living. Was it mine or was it theirs? In Boston I realized something was missing when I wasn’t singing. If you express yourself through music, then if you don’t get it out, it hurts,” she said.

She’s been on a fast-rising trajectory ever since and is known for her expertise playing Mozart heroines, including Pamina (“The Magic Flute”), Konstanze (“The Abduction from the Seraglio”) and Donna Anna and Donna Elvira (“Don Giovanni”).

“He’s my favorite composer. I feel like we understand each other,” she said. “His music is so expressive but refined and his characters are more real and human because you can sing them more naturally.”

Shafer also grew up in a musical family, but didn’t see her first opera until she was 14. Beginning in grade school in her native State College, Penn., she sang in youth choirs and studied piano under her father, Timothy Shafer, a piano professor at Penn State.

When she auditioned at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia at age 17, she applied as both a piano and voice student. She was accepted into the vocal program and quickly threw herself into developing her technique and repertoire.

“It was super hard but super fun. I grew by leaps and bounds in that first year and I just kept going with it,” she said. “The career just kept going. I got auditions, I got jobs, it was just a natural progression.”

Shafer is also a Mozart specialist. She has played the role of Barbarina, the gardener’s daughter, in “Marriage of Figaro,” many times but has always had her eye on Susanna, which is the longest role in the soprano repertoire and also among the most demanding.

“This role has been in me for a long time, but I’m learning a lot in rehearsal about pacing myself,” she said, adding that Mozart’s understanding of the human voice has helped ease the learning curve.

“He knows what he’s doing because the (vocal) lines are so natural,” she said. “He knows where my voice wants to go and he knows how long the phrases should be.”

David Bennett, San Diego Opera’s general director, said “The Marriage of Figaro” is his favorite opera, and he’s excited to bring a new production here after such a long absence.

“We know the tunes, so there’s a lot of payoff for your ear, but when you see it, it’s perfectly constructed dramatically,” Bennett said. “If you play the drama, it’s devastating in places, but it’s also a comedy.”

San Diego Opera’s upcoming season

“All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914” by Peter Rothstein

This family-friendly, a choral opera tells the moving and true story of the Christmas truce of 1914, when soldiers from France, the U.K. and Germany came out of their trenches on Christmas day to exchange food and gifts, play soccer and bury their dead. It’s being co-produced by Bodhi Tree Concerts and SACRA/PROFANA choir as part of the company’s Detour Series. Dec. 7, 8 and 9 at the Balboa Theatre.

“Rigoletto” by Giuseppe Verdi

Last seen here in 2009, Verdi’s 1851 tragedy will star baritone Stephen Powell as Rigoletto, a court jester who plays a horrific price for humiliating his Duke’s courtiers. Coloratura soprano Alisa Jordheim makes her company debut as Rigoletto’s naive daughter, Gilda. Scott Quinn debuts as the Duke, whose bar ditty “La donne è mobile” is one of the most famous tenor arias in all opera. The traditional period production is newly purchased from Seattle Opera. Feb. 2, 5, 8 and 10 at the Civic Theatre.

“Three Decembers” by Jake Heggie

The Detour series continues with this chamber opera starring famed mezzo Frederica von Stade as an aging Broadway actress estranged over the course of 20 years from her two adult children, played by soprano Kristin Clayton and baritone Steven LaBrie. Von Stade and Clayton reprise the roles they played in the piece’s 2008 premiere at Houston Grand Opera. March 8, 9 and 10 at Patrick Henry High School’s PHAME Theatre.

“Carmen” by Georges Bizet

Although a distilled, small-cast version of the dark tragedy (“The Tragedy of Carmen”) was done last year as part of the company’s Detour series, the full grand opera version returns in a production rented from Atlanta Opera. Italian-American mezzo Ginger Costa-Jackson makes her company debut in the title role. Other debuts include tenor Robert Watson as Carmen’s vengeful lover Don José, baritone Scott Connor as bullfighter Escamillo and soprano Sarah Tucker as Don José’s discarded love, Micaëla. March 30, April 2, 5 and 7 at the Civic Theatre.

“One Amazing Night” with tenor Stephen Costello and baritone Stephen Powell

This season’s “Rigoletto” star Powell teams up with Costello (who starred here as both Romeo and Faust) to perform solos and famous tenor-baritone duets. May 15 at the Balboa Theatre.

“The Marriage of Figaro”

When: 7 p.m. Oct. 20, Oct. 23 and Oct. 26. 2 p.m. Oct. 28.

Where: San Diego Opera at the San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave., downtown.

Tickets: $49 and up

Phone: (619) 533-7000

Online: sdopera.org

Twitter: @pamkragen

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