by Bruce Turkel | Apr 10, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
How NOT to Write a Blog Post. This blog was born in 2007 and it quickly became our most important marketing tool. Since the first post the family of people who have subscribed to these branding thoughts has grown to over 86,000. Plus 80,000 additional readers follow...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 22, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Redefine Your Dreams Sometime in the early 2000’s, Dr. William Werther was chatting with my father. Bill was telling my dad that his greatest goal in life was to be a philanthropist. And even though Dr. Werther knew that he had helped scores of students throughout his...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 21, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Foreplay starts in the morning. I have a buddy who told me about a disagreement he had with his girlfriend. The two of them weren’t getting along and hadn’t been nice to each other throughout the day. But after dinner was done and the dishes were put away, he started...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 31, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Brand Battlefield The Trump administration banned immigration from seven predominately Muslim countries. Two days later Starbucks’ chairman and chief executive officer, Howard Schultz, marched onto the brand battlefield and promised the company will hire 10,000...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 9, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Experience Economy We live in a consumer society. Companies produce products and incent consumers to purchase. Media and marketing professionals build programs to create desire for those products, giving consumers more and more reasons to buy. And mass culture is...