by Bruce Turkel | Sep 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Miami International University of Art and Design presented a panel discussion on the Golden Age of Advertising as part of a exhibit loaned from the Hartman Center for Sales at Duke University Libraries, Not Just Mad Men. The panel featured Barry Zaid formerly of...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Between now and 2014, 10 Boomers will turn 50 years old every minute. By 2030, 20% of Americans will be 65+. What’s most remarkable is that most of them will live at least 25 years more, creating the largest and wealthiest generation in the history of the United...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
First Helen Thomas negates years of courageous presidential interviews with her anti-Semitic outbursts and now Michael Jordan wears a Hitler moustache in a Hanes commercial? What is wrong with these people? Don’t they know that the suggestion of prejudice is not...
by Bruce Turkel | May 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
In today’s New York Times there’s a Shell ad titled “LET’S DELIVER ENERGY FOR A CHANGING WORLD. LET’S GO.” I’m sorry, but is someone at Shell smoking crack? Here the whole world, or at least the whole Western Hemisphere, is fixated on BP’s tragic oil spill and Shell...
by Bruce Turkel | May 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
I just read an article that outlined Florida congressman Meek’s plan to raise marketing dollars to promote tourism to Florida in the wake of the tragic BP oil spill: “U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, a candidate in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, said...
