by Bruce Turkel | Jan 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
One of my favorite bloggers, David Altshuler, wrote a blog explaining why he writes blogs in the first place. As I read it, I realized I couldn’t have said it better myself. So I asked David for permission to reissue his blog, only changing the specific details that...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
Last week we talked about how the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB) has built a tourism marketing machine by focusing on building the singular Miami brand (you can read that post HERE). Thanks to aggressively pursuing this strategy, recent...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Owen Frager is Chief Innovation Officer of the Frager Creative Group, one of the nation’s first virtual marketing communications agencies serving Fortune 500 brands.There’s a lot more to interactive digital marketing than eye-catching banner ads, discount packages,...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’m sitting in a marketing committee meeting at the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB). The GMCVB is a very long-term client of ours and a great example of a client who ‘gets it.’ As with most committee meetings, we go around the room and each...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
For years there’s been an ongoing debate regarding the veracity of research in the advertising world. On one side of the argument are the research proponents who believe that consumer attitudes and purchasing preferences can be accurately determined through...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
I was sitting at the table at a conference recently, listening to a world-renowned speaker talking about differentiating business brands. The young woman who raised her hand to ask a question was going on and on about her business problems and her personal problems;...