by Bruce Turkel | Apr 11, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Brand Building Methods.I Got Fooled is a great blues song by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee about a man who offers to clean a beautiful neighbor’s house in return for intimate favors. You know that she promised me When the work was through, That I could have my way And...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 4, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Brand strategies for fun and profit. Hospitals can learn a lot from restaurants. Even though it’s a silly stretch to point out that the words hospital and hospitality share the same linguistic root, the parallels remain strong. In any service business, especially ones...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 29, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
How to create a brand.My buddy’s daughter is a talented graphic designer. To fulfill her life’s dream she took a job with a very famous movie studio with the promise that she’d get to design posters and campaigns. The people who hired her insisted they brought her on...
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...