by Bruce Turkel | Jun 19, 2018 | All About Them, Building Brand Value
A very nice email popped up on my laptop the other day. It was from a woman who had heard me speak at a recent conference and wanted to update me on what she’d done with the ideas I presented. Here’s what she wrote (I changed a few words to make sure her identity...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 5, 2018 | Building Brand Value
It used to be that a sincere “I’m sorry” was accompanied by a bouquet of flowers and a heartfelt card. Then life went back to normal. And for companies, rectifying a mistake usually meant a generic apology by the CEO and a conscientious program set up to rectify...
by Bruce Turkel | May 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about Google manipulating their Artificial Voice (AI) voice recognition software. Specifically, the company added “ums” and “ahs” to their robot voices to make them sound more human.Google was doing this to make their interactions...
by Bruce Turkel | May 15, 2018 | Branding, Building Brand Value
For years Google has crowed about their code of conduct, “Don’t be evil.” In 2015 they doubled down on the concept, if not the actual words, when they introduced their new tagline “Do the right thing.” As the company explains in their code of conduct,...
by Bruce Turkel | May 8, 2018 | Branding
I was on a FOX Business interview when the anchor, Melissa Francis, ran a little role-playing exercise with me: “It’s three o’clock in the morning and your phone rings. It’s the Republican Party and they want to know what they can do to change their brand for...
