by marketing.bruceturkel | Oct 9, 2019 | Branding, Building Brand Value
When I was a kid, there was a head shop in our neighborhood called The Great Train Robbery. Perched in their window was a black light poster that featured two seedy-looking vultures lurking on the limb of a dead tree. One says to the other, “Patience, my ass. I’m...
by marketing.bruceturkel | Oct 2, 2019 | Branding
My friend and great keynote speaker Randy Gage turned me on to this article the other day: “University of Georgia football fans are taking their fandom to the next level ahead of a game between the Bulldogs and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Dill’s Food City, a...
by marketing.bruceturkel | Sep 25, 2019 | Branding
The one hour, time-certain meeting convened at 10:00 AM. It’s 11:45 and we’re only about halfway through the agenda. The enormous conference table is completely surrounded, and even more people fill the folding chairs around the walls. A DOT engineer is making his...
by marketing.bruceturkel | Aug 14, 2019 | Branding, Bruce Turkel
Are you familiar with the psychological phenomenon called the Benjamin Franklin effect? It’s where a person who has already performed a favor for another person is more likely to do a second favor for the same person than if they had received a favor from that person....
by marketing.bruceturkel | Aug 7, 2019 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Building Brand Value
An article in AdWeek Magazine titled “The Survivors” promised to teach readers, “How to make it as an indie agency in the merger era.” (For those of you not in the advertising agency business, that means how small, independent advertising agencies can survive without...
by marketing.bruceturkel | Jul 24, 2019 | Branding, Building Brand Value
Regular readers of this blog know I’m an unabashed car fanatic. As a good buddy of mine (whose passions run to full-bodied cabernets) once told me, “I have a friend who says I’ve never met a wine I didn’t love for some particular nuance or reason. I think the same...
