by Bruce Turkel | Mar 22, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
What is a brand?My pal (and incredible drummer and very funny guy) Allen Lynch bought me a wonderful present for my birthday. Allen actually found a company out west to handcraft a genuine branding iron with my company’s logo on it. It’s a… “Turkel Brand.” Since I...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Bruce Turkel | Mar 15, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
How To Build A BrandI’m sitting in a very comfortable reclining chair somewhere between Beaumont and Houston Texas, somewhere around 35,000 feet. I’m in a brand new American Airlines 777-300 in business class seat 13D. I’ve got in-air Internet access, a bottomless...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Bruce Turkel | Mar 7, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Turning liabilities into assets. I’ve talked about it many times right here. Every four years we get the opportunity to watch the most important branding contest anywhere. And if we can just pry off our partisan hats for a little while we can really learn from the...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Bruce Turkel | Mar 1, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
A few months back I made a presentation on Building Brand Value to a group of industrial service providers. While I spoke there were about 300 people furiously scribbling notes. When I finished a bunch of hands shot up. A nervous middle-aged man in a green and white...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Bruce Turkel | Feb 22, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
How do you build a brand? A few years ago I sat in the audience at a Florida Governor’s Conference on Tourism. The keynote speaker was Tim Sanders and I was captivated by his presentation. Tim was the former chief solutions officer at Yahoo! and shared his simple...