by Bruce Turkel | Jan 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
VIA Washingto Post A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousand of people went...
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 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 | Oct 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
VIA Business Week Gutsy marketers spend into the teeth of a recession. Several of BusinessWeek’s 100 Best Global Brands are doing exactly that by Burt Helm Every time a recession threatens, executives glare at the balance sheet and wonder aloud about one...
by Bruce Turkel | May 2, 2007 | Branding
We spend our lives marketing the travel industry and destinations and yet it was my client, Bill Talbert, the president of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau who showed me this genius bit of architecture that was hidden in plain view. Why EVERY hotel...
