by Bruce Turkel | May 9, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
How To Create A Name.When I was a kid I worked in one of my parents’ restaurants. We sold pizza and hotdogs and sodas and soft serve ice cream. On the weekends at the busier stores we were go go go from open to close, handing food across the counter and grabbing...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 20, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The two guys sitting next to me on the plane disrupted my peace and quiet by chattering away like old friends. I couldn’t open up my laptop until we “reached a comfortable cruising altitude of 10,000 feet” so I was stuck listening to them even though I really...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 3, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Last week we talked about what happens when critics judge new ideas too quickly and often risk sentencing great ideas to obscurity; in that case, Airbnb’s new logo that was compared to “certain female anatomy.” (Branding Gone Wrong) But what happens when the...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 27, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Airbnb, the online vacation rental service that now controls more hotel rooms than all of the major hotel companies combined, introduced a new logo last week. The response from the blogosphere and myriad branding experts” was immediate and negative. Apparently, the...
