by Bruce Turkel | Jul 14, 2020 | All About Them, Branding, Building Brand Value, Marketing & Advertising
What is an interrobang? Go ahead, I’ll give you a minute to rummage around in the dusty, musty recesses of your brain. Need a clue? Here’s what it’s not… An interrobang is not a new military interrogation technique. It’s not the definition of the whole process of an...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 8, 2020 | All About Them, Branding, Marketing & Advertising
We’ve all heard the old saying, “If you build a better mousetrap the world will build a path to your door.” Trouble is, that’s not true. If you build a better mousetrap, the world WON’T beat a path to your door. You will just wind up with a bunch of dead mice. The...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 30, 2020 | Branding, Leadership, Marketing & Advertising
Berry Gordy Jr., founder of Motown Records, was a notoriously mercurial and mercenary businessman. Although Gordy was responsible for some of the most powerful, popular, and passionate R&B and soul music ever created, the stories of him making musical decisions...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 23, 2020 | All About Them, Branding, Bruce Turkel, Building Brand Value
Don’t Race What You Can’t Replace. When I was in my early 30s, I was finally able to buy my first Porsche Carrera. Before you think I’m showing off, it was a used 911 and the culmination of a lifelong obsession I inherited from my father. And before you think it was a...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 9, 2020 | All About Them, Branding, Bruce Turkel
Joni Mitchell summed up today’s zeitgeist in her 1970’s release, “Big Yellow Taxi.” “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone?” 25 years later when she was being interviewed by journalist Robert Hilburn, Mitchell explained it this...
