by Bruce Turkel | Feb 2, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
It is said that if the only tool you have is a hammer, every solution looks like a nail. That suggests that as a branding guy I would look to answer questions and solve problems through a prism of branding and marketing know-how. If we can take our partisan hats off...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 1, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Building a better brand is like building a life. Both grow based on an ongoing series of conscious decisions, opportunistic occurrences, and reactions to unplanned events. Plus they both benefit (and potentially suffer) from a bit of luck and a lot of serendipity....
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 18, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
There are people who make a practice of not positioning themselves across from me at board meetings. That’s because I spend my time in those meetings drawing caricatures of everyone sitting around the conference table. Actually, I draw pictures of everyone except the...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 11, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
David Bowie passed away on Sunday at the age of 69. And even if you didn’t really know him, you just lost a vital role model. Bowie was a lot of things: Musician. Rock star. Fashion plate. Gender identity activist. Businessman. Songwriter. Record producer....
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 5, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Walk around Las Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and one thing starts to stand out — electronics manufacturers and distributors have fully embraced tablet computing. Just a few years after Apple introduced its first iPad, it seems as if every single company has...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 29, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The world is undergoing change at an almost unimaginably rapid speed. Technology has forever changed the way we do things. Some companies are figuring out their new place in the world and lots aren’t. Disintermediation is eliminating markets, making certain skill sets...