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...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 17, 2009 | Branding, Building Brand Value
A few months ago I made a presentation titled Building Brand Value to a group of industrial service providers. While I spoke there were about 300 people in the room furiously scribbling notes. As soon as I finished talking, a bunch of hands went up and the crowd...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 17, 2009 | Branding
Mark Trueblood commented on my post that the Republican Party should take a branding lesson from Cadillac: “I think the GOP’s problems are much deeper than an lack of youth or sleekness…their image problem is not their age, it is their actions and...
by Bruce Turkel | May 5, 2009 | Branding
Used to be that a Cadillac represented the ultimate achievement. Leonard Chess created a music empire by paying his blues and rock & roll stars with Caddys. Presidents were chauffeured in them. Corpses took their final rides in them. The word Cadillac even became...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 6, 2009 | Branding, Bruce Turkel
Bruce just finished keynoting for the Illinois Governors Conference on Tourism in Chicago, and accompanying him on stage was an incredibly gifted graphic interpreter by the name of Brandy Agerbeck. What came out of their time together was unanimously agreed to be...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 8, 2008 | Branding
Ads of the World just posted our Flamenco Passion campaign, created for Sol Melia Hoteles, on their front page. You can see the ads here!