by Bruce Turkel | Jun 19, 2018 | All About Them, Building Brand Value
A very nice email popped up on my laptop the other day. It was from a woman who had heard me speak at a recent conference and wanted to update me on what she’d done with the ideas I presented. Here’s what she wrote (I changed a few words to make sure her identity...
by Bruce Turkel | May 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about Google manipulating their Artificial Voice (AI) voice recognition software. Specifically, the company added “ums” and “ahs” to their robot voices to make them sound more human.Google was doing this to make their interactions...
by Bruce Turkel | May 21, 2018 | All About Them, Building Brand Value
Willy Walker walked purposefully to the center of the stage and addressed the 400 people in the audience.“Late last night I wandered through the hotel lobby. A maintenance engineer asked me if I needed help and I told him I was looking for the gym. Instead of just...
by Bruce Turkel | May 2, 2018 | All About Them
I recently stopped at Enriqueta’s for breakfast. Enriqueta’s is a little Cuban coffee shop on 29th Street, smack dab in the center of Miami’s exploding Midtown/Wynwood/Design District area.As the Miami New Times wrote, “Between 6:15 and 11:00 a.m., a cross...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 25, 2018 | Branding, Marketing & Advertising
Somewhere around Y2K, I was introduced to Susan Ford Collins. When we first met, Susan gave me a copy of her latest book, The Joy of Success. Because I’m a little obsessed with reading, I dove right in and polished off the book in a weekend. It was well written and...