by Bruce Turkel | Jul 9, 2013 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
With summer finally showing its sweaty face, those of us who live in Florida are starting to hear about hurricanes again. Just this morning I heard about one of the first named storms of the year — Chantal — which is swirling its way out of Barbados and up towards the...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 1, 2013 | Branding, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
My friend Jimmy was filling his basket in the produce section when I ran into him. “What are you doing this weekend?” I asked. “Not too much, going out to dinner with Janet tomorrow night. How about you?” “Gotta work tomorrow but I’m sitting in with a guitar player at...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 25, 2013 | Branding, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Tom Brokaw wrote the book about the generation of Americans who grew during the depression and fought in World War II. In his preface, Brokaw describes the people he researched and wrote about this way: “These men and women came of age in the Great Depression, when...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 18, 2013 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
When I was in high school one of my part-time jobs was working as a bagboy at the local supermarket. Even though the walls were plastered with signs that said, “Carry-out is a Publix service. No tipping please,” we bagboys stuffed our pockets with the single dollar...
by Bruce Turkel | May 28, 2013 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Have you read about Carnival Cruise Line’s latest woes? Of course you saw the bloated corpse of the Costa Concordia floundering like a beached whale off the coast of Italy, you saw the 2,758 stranded cruisers on the Carnival Triumph eating onion sandwiches and using...
by Bruce Turkel | May 20, 2013 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
My fifth grade teacher Juliette Polichetti used to say, “If you don’t know what you don’t know then you don’t know.” And while you could argue that that’s another way of explaining that ignorance is bliss, I don’t think that’s what Miss Polichetti had in mind. When I...
