by Bruce Turkel | Jun 6, 2017 | Advertising, Branding, Bruce Turkel, Speaker, Turkel
You Can do Anything. For a couple years now I’ve been writing about how the world has changed while you and I were sleeping. I’ve written about how social media put the power of the media in the hands of each one of us. I’ve blogged about how the handheld video...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 7, 2016 | Advertising, Branding, Bruce Turkel, Speaker, Turkel
Turning liabilities into assets. I’ve talked about it many times right here. Every four years we get the opportunity to watch the most important branding contest anywhere. And if we can just pry off our partisan hats for a little while we can really learn from the...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 8, 2015 | Advertising, Branding, Bruce Turkel, Speaker, Turkel
Do We Know What Trump, Obama, Ross, and Goebbels Have in Common? The power of WE.Painter to the people Bob Ross died in 1995 but his legacy and his business is bigger than ever. “The majority of people who watch Bob have no interest in painting,” the woman who...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 18, 2012 | Branding
There’s an old story about the pessimist father who wanted to teach his optimist son a lesson. The only thing the kid wanted for his birthday was a pony. So on his birthday, when the kid was away at school, his dad called the local feed store and had his son’s bedroom...
by Bruce Turkel | May 16, 2012 | Branding
In his best seller Blink, Malcolm Gladwell writes about the veracity of the decisions we make quickly, arguing that millions of years of evolution have given us the perceptive skills we need to make instant choices, often without all the facts. One of his examples is...