by Bruce Turkel | Nov 13, 2008 | Uncategorized
From my brilliant buddy Owen Frager, a heartfelt and touching letter from Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos. Reprinted here with respect and gratitude. “Last week was a tough week for everyone, as we went through the process of laying off 8% of the Zappos family. At the...
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 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
This weekend I spoke at a conference for The Keyes Company on a Carnival cruise ship. Although my wife and I spent a lot of time in our cabin watching CNN to see what Obama, Biden, McCain, Palin and Saturday Night Live would do in the campaign’s final days, we still...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
Today I had lunch with an old friend and very successful attorney who is the founder of an important charity. His girlfriend is in the real estate business and she’s in touch with people’s current economic situations. Her suggestion to him was that the charity...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
An open letter to resort hotel owners: I was running on the cart path of the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort (Click here to read blog post) when it dawned on me that hoteliers are missing out on a wonderful market by not making their courses welcoming to runners. First of...
