by Bruce Turkel | Sep 9, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Thanks to Mayor Bloomberg, there’s a lovely little park in front of the Macy’s New York flagship store on 34th street between Broadway and 7th Avenue. I lucked upon a garden table and chair shaded from the sun by a big patio umbrella and cooled by the wind rushing...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 25, 2014 | Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Ice Bucket Challenge? By now everyone who’s not living under a rock knows about the Ice Bucket Challenge. It’s a brilliant viral stunt that combines coerced altruism, mild sadism, mischief, social media, and a good dose of revenge to get people to donate to...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 18, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
There’s always one in every group and our harmonica master class was no different. Each time the instructor would ask if there were any questions, “That Guy” would raise his hand. “Little Walter was the best. And I read somewhere he used a 1940’s Astatic taxi...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 10, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Last week, Melissa Francis at FOX Business did a story on BuzzFeed’s review of fast food marketing. The site created a sliding scale format that compared the pictures of fast food presented in advertising with the actual items you’d be handed across the counter. Even...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 3, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Last week we talked about what happens when critics judge new ideas too quickly and often risk sentencing great ideas to obscurity; in that case, Airbnb’s new logo that was compared to “certain female anatomy.” (Branding Gone Wrong) But what happens when the creative...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 27, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Airbnb, the online vacation rental service that now controls more hotel rooms than all of the major hotel companies combined, introduced a new logo last week. The response from the blogosphere and myriad branding experts” was immediate and negative. Apparently, the...
