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:...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 17, 2012 | Branding
How many times have you attended a speech and decided whether the speaker was worth listening to within the first few minutes of their pitch? Often they hadn’t even gotten deep enough into their presentation to present metrics worth judging but you’d already made your...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 10, 2012 | Branding
Remember the scene in the movie Poltergeist when the worried parents came home to find their young daughter staring at a TV screen of static? The spooky little girl turned around and announced to her terrified folks, “They’re here.” I felt that way when I saw the...