Current & Recent Clients:
No News Bites video brochure
Evanston150's Black Tie & Blue Jean Celebration
First Bank & Trust's Eco-Friendly Skokie Branch
Kinc Design and Fabrication
Remy Bumppo's "Mourning Becomes Electra"
Testimonials:
“Kick Start Marketing assisted us in the opening of our new bank branch. We received more good publicity on this one event than all of the publicity combined in our 16 year history. Stephanie Kulke is bright, creative, well connected and very organized. She works well with our people at all levels.”
-Jay Lytle, Managing Director First Bank & Trust“As a broadcast journalist, for over thirty years with WLS-TV in Chicago, I’ve worked with many outstanding PR and marketing professionals. Stephanie is up there at the top. Her genuine positive demeanor, outstanding professional skills, insight and sincerity set the bar high.”
-Bill Campbell“I truly enjoyed working with Kick Start. Stephanie was easily accessible, accommodating and full of fresh ideas…she always made time to talk and to review our plans and performance.”
-Alden Loury, Publisher of The Chicago Reporter“Stephanie is a skilled marketing professional. I have worked with her for over seven years [at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company] and I am most impressed with her creativity (no matter what the situation, Stephanie is able to generate many innovative ideas, approaches or solutions), her writing skills (always clear and concise whether it’s a straight-forward press release or an emotional call to action) and her ability to build strong, productive relationships with the press, team members and vendors.”
– Karen Randolph, SVP, Consumer Resources, FCB Chicago
“Stephanie Kulke did a wonderful job of handling publicity for the Printers Row Book Fair and the Authors in the Schools fundraising dinner. She was expert at pitching stories and facilitating media coverage for events, authors and VIPs. She was professional and responsive as well as deadline-and-budget-oriented. Stephanie was a pleasure to work with and I recommend her services wholeheartedly.”
– Mary Davis Fournier, Public Programs Office Deputy Director for the American Library Association
“I struggled with crafting “the message” when my business was in transition. Stephanie targeted what needed to be communicated and got it out there.”
– Nancy Snyder, Owner of Just Pots Container Gardening
“Theater Oobleck and I had the great luck and pleasure to have Stephanie Kulke do the PR for a production of ours in 2000 (“An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events as Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening”). In years since, we’ve worked with a number of other quite capable PR reps, but Stephanie set the standard. In addition to the professionalism and skill she brought to the job, she had what is above all else essential: an absolute commitment to, and enthusiasm for, the show. She took it personally. For getting word about your work out to a larger audience, you couldn’t do better than to have Ms. Kulke on your team.”
– Mickle Maher, Playwright and Co-Founder of Theater Oobleck