by Bruce Turkel | Feb 5, 2013 | Branding, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Last Sunday night about 110 million Americans sat around their HD campfires and shared in a traditional event – the Super Bowl. But this year something was different this year , and I’m not talking about the 34-minute delay caused by the Superdome’s super brownout....
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 7, 2013 | Branding
Do you know what the word “tautology” means? Wikipedia says: Tautology: using different words to say the same thing, or a series of self-reinforcing statements that cannot be disproved because they depend on the assumption that they are already correct. Good examples...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 1, 2013 | Branding, Building Brand Value
Seven or eight years ago I found myself running into the same predicament over and over again. Our advertising agency would present our branding and marketing concepts to our clients and they would want objective assurances that our ideas would work. Although we were...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 4, 2012 | Branding, Marketing & Advertising
At our advertising agency, we have a new service positioning called “Plays Well With Others.” It’s NOT a reference to our elementary school report card but rather a new business model we’ve been perfecting. Plays Well With Others is about us being the lead brand...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 20, 2012 | Branding
Take a look at Mazda’s logo. Notice anything strange? How about that all the letters are lower case except the D which is upper case (the Z could be either upper or lower case). Is that a good use of designer license or is it lazy typography? Does it matter? How about...
