by Bruce Turkel | Feb 2, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
When I went to elementary school on Miami Beach there were just four or five African-American kids in our group. I remember this only because I found out later that there were very few black families living on South Beach and the kids in our class were the children of...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Want to know how to ask for money? Pull off any expressway and down onto any exit ramp in any big city in America and you’ll probably have the same experience: There will be a man or woman dressed in soiled clothes and filthy sneakers standing at the red light hoping...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
At the end of every year television and the Internet are inundated with top ten lists – the best top ten lists of this, the worst top ten lists of that – and 2014 is no different.Taking a page out of this time-honored tradition of top ten lists, I thought I’d review...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 22, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Bah Humbug. Pardon me for being a skeptamist, but does anything say, “I did as little as possible” more than a generic e-mail holiday greeting? I just received this one (amongst many) and am reprinting its touching message here in all its insipid entirety to make my...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 16, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
In hindsight it wasn’t such a good idea. I had already tossed my blue box of fishing hooks and lures down into the boat next to my rods. Instead of climbing down the ladder after them, I had the bright idea to jump the three feet from the pier to the floating dock...