by Bruce Turkel | Jun 14, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Jeff Bezos has a lot to teach us. It has now been three years since online retail visionary, Jeff Bezos, bought the Washington Post. On NPR this morning I heard about how the tech entrepreneur has changed the newspaper. There are lots of things Bezos has done, but...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 6, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
You Can do Anything. For a couple years now I’ve been writing about how the world has changed while you and I were sleeping. I’ve written about how social media put the power of the media in the hands of each one of us. I’ve blogged about how the handheld video...
by Bruce Turkel | May 30, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Streisand Effect and Your Brand Value. Photographer Kenneth Adelman took an aerial photo of Barbra Streisand’s Malibu mansion. In return, the singer sued him for $50,000,000 citing violation of privacy. Before the suit, “Image 3850” (the photo of Streisand’s...
by Bruce Turkel | May 22, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Key To Building Your Brand. “I blew out my flip flop, Stepped on a pop top; Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home.” Those aren’t just some of the lyrics to Jimmy Buffett’s 1977 song Margaritaville. They contain the secret message to his stellar success in music...
by Bruce Turkel | May 16, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Do you know where good ideas come from? Don’t feel bad, I don’t either. Surprising, perhaps, considering I’m responsible for coming up with great ideas for our clients every single day. I know how to present ideas; I know how to sell ideas. And like the blind...
by Bruce Turkel | May 10, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Marketing & Advertising
You know the old joke: Q: “How do you get to Carnegie Hall? A: “Practice, man, practice.” This joke was probably never funny but it was accurate. In the old days before the Internet was as common as sense is not, the ability to do something well was the best predictor...
