by Bruce Turkel | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
The most exciting and profitable part of my business is often also the most frustrating — valuing our ideas. After all, clients don’t come to us because they want to be patrons of the arts. They call us up and hire us because they have a problem and they need to find...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 11, 2013 | Branding, Keynote speaking
A few weeks ago the National Speakers Association (NSA) hosted their Laugh Lab. It’s a seminar taught by comedians and humorists to teach professional speakers and presenters how to use humor in their talks. I was able to fit the Laugh Lab into my schedule between...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 29, 2013 | Branding, Keynote speaking
Sometimes you get exposed to a new viewpoint from a unique venue that you weren’t expecting. To that point, I’m sitting on a panel in a university auditorium listening to one of my fellow panelists talk about the subject of our conference. I’ve already prepared my...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 1, 2013 | Branding, Building Brand Value
Seven or eight years ago I found myself running into the same predicament over and over again. Our advertising agency would present our branding and marketing concepts to our clients and they would want objective assurances that our ideas would work. Although we were...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 26, 2012 | Branding, Marketing & Advertising
“The Dollar Auction game: a paradox in non-cooperative behavior and escalation” was published by economist Martin Shubik in the March, 1971 issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution (I know, I know — you’ve got a copy laying around somewhere). Here’s how it works:...
