by Bruce Turkel | Aug 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
AdAge reported that Toyota is thinking of firing its ad agencies and doing everything in-house. My friend Andrew Jaffee has some interesting comments: Toyota spends $900 million in measured media in the U.S. alone, according to Nielsen. That means they’re...
by Bruce Turkel | May 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
Vanessa Horwell is Chief Visibility Officer at ThinkInk. Vanessa works with companies in the U.S., UK and Europe to improve their visibility through strategic public relations and new media channels. Her views here are excerpted from an article she wrote in Mobile...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 9, 2009 | Building Brand Value
I was talking to Mark, my new business guy, and he wanted to know if I respond to the new business leads I find with Google Alerts. When I told him I do, he asked what my success rate was. It didn’t take a second of thought to come up with the answer – almost...
by Bruce Turkel | Nov 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
By guest blogger Vanessa Horwell With the endless discourse of cutbacks, staff layoffs and general economic woes, it’s very hard for us marketers not to hop aboard the fear-monger’s bandwagon. In the past couple of weeks, we have seen the Christian Science Monitor...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
A gathering of over 700 marketers and advertising sorts down in Orlando for an ANA conference have voted Barack Obama as Ad Age’s Marketer of the Year. Obama beat out Apple, Zappos and, yes, John McCain. Complete story here.