by Bruce Turkel | May 23, 2012 | Branding
Have you noticed what’s going on? Everything might seem pretty normal but without noticing, the world of media and marketing continues to change at lightning speed. Without warning, the newly crowned Holy Trinity of social media marketing — Twitter, Facebook,...
by Bruce Turkel | May 16, 2012 | Branding
In his best seller Blink, Malcolm Gladwell writes about the veracity of the decisions we make quickly, arguing that millions of years of evolution have given us the perceptive skills we need to make instant choices, often without all the facts. One of his examples is...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 20, 2012 | Branding
I write this blog for a lot of reasons — to open a line of communication with you, to have a forum for my thoughts, to impose the discipline to think and write, to generate speaking gigs and new business for my advertising agency, and to build my brand. But thanks to...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 27, 2011 | Branding
Jackass star Ryan Dunn was killed when he crashed his Porsche 911 GT3 early Monday morning. A few hours before the 3 a.m. accident, Dunn had posted a photo on Twitter in which he is seen drinking with friends. Hours later, movie critic Roger Ebert tweeted: “Friends...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 7, 2011 | Branding
According to web technologist Cameron Adams, a mashup is “a song created by blending two or more other songs.” In analog terms, a mashup is a musical collage made up of bits and pieces of other songs, sound effects, and audio files. But while you can look at a collage...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 6, 2010 | Branding, Marketing & Advertising
Do you know how to read musical notation? If you do, you know that when you’re reading music you’re actually reading at least two things simultaneously. Written music tells you what note to play and when to play it. Written language, on the other hand, only tells you...