by Bruce Turkel | Feb 22, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
How do you build a brand? A few years ago I sat in the audience at a Florida Governor’s Conference on Tourism. The keynote speaker was Tim Sanders and I was captivated by his presentation. Tim was the former chief solutions officer at Yahoo! and shared his simple...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 15, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Deadpool, the new movie staring Ryan Reynolds as the potty-mouthed superhero, has broken box office records with $135 million in ticket sales after only three days in theaters. The movie was expected to earn only $80 million over the Valentine’s Day weekend but is now...
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....
