by Bruce Turkel | Apr 12, 2007 | Branding
There’s no doubt that brands are badges, telling everyone who we are and how we want to present ourselves to the world. But how far does this go? A recent article in the New York Times suggests that brand-badge symbolism has become so powerful that certain cars...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
You can credit the Internet for another major change in travel marketing. Thanks to sites such as TripAdvisor, happy and unhappy guests can immediately post their opinions for all the world to see. As Michele Higgins writes in The New York Times, “The Web Gives Hotel...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
VIA my brilliant friend Bob Wright in Orlando: “I feel lucky to be watching a marketing lesson on at least two of the four P’s of marketing — pricing and promotion, especially the use of price as strategy — provided by Disney. No picking sides...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 5, 2007 | Marketing & Advertising, Uncategorized
By now the entire advertising industry is buzzing with news of the new ways coming to rate commercials. While ratings have always calculated how many people (the industry term is “eyeballs”) watch a particular ad, the new system will report on how many people change...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 30, 2007 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Marketing & Advertising
Have you seen Australia’s new tourism campaign — So Where The Bloody Hell Are You? If you live in Dubai, Singapore or Canada you probably won’t. That’s because those countries censored the ad for three different reasons. Canada doesn’t...
