by Bruce Turkel | Nov 5, 2012 | Branding
Each day I get more than one hundred emails with titles like these:What’s Happening This Week at Shmegegge Meshuganah & Putz The XYZ Corporation’s Monthly Update, and MBHSCBA Newsletter – November 12, 2012 They went directly into my deleted spam file right...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 1, 2012 | Branding
Do you hate meetings? I sure do. Surprising because I sit through so many of them, but I find that most meetings are a complete waste of time. And while all meetings are different, what I’ve found is that they’re all populated by the same characters. After hours of...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 13, 2012 | Branding
Every day I get emails from salesmen asking me to forward their note to the “proper person in my office” who handles whatever it is that they’re selling. I’ll bet you do too. Do they think we’re going to drop what we’re doing and bird-dog their sales leads for them?...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
A comedian on late-night television did a funny bit about a guy who hoisted his lawn mower up to trim his shrubs. After the blade hit a hidden branch in the hedge and flipped over, the lawn mower chopped off one of his arms. That wasn’t the funny part. Once the...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
A startling shift is changing the demographics of the world’s most important market. 2012 is the first year in history that non-Hispanic white births in the United States will no longer be the majority. According to The New York Times, “in the latest sign of the...