by Bruce Turkel | Apr 12, 2007 | Branding
As the marketing of travel and tourism continues to change, two travel sites are taking a cue from YouTube and distributing consumer-created video content on their sites. Travelistic.com and LonelyPlanet.tv are both offering users and tourism bureaus the opportunity...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
You can credit the Internet for another major change in travel marketing. Thanks to sites such as TripAdvisor, happy and unhappy guests can immediately post their opinions for all the world to see. As Michele Higgins writes in The New York Times, “The Web Gives Hotel...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 5, 2007 | Marketing & Advertising, Uncategorized
By now the entire advertising industry is buzzing with news of the new ways coming to rate commercials. While ratings have always calculated how many people (the industry term is “eyeballs”) watch a particular ad, the new system will report on how many people change...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 6, 2007 | Branding, Marketing & Advertising
By now you’ve no doubt read about Howard Schultz’s memo to Starbucks’ management bemoaning the loss of the “Starbucks’ experience.” It’s been in Forbes, BusinessWeek, on CNN and all over the blogesphere. It seems as if...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
From good friend and excellent speaker Joe Calloway’s new book: From Chapter 4: The Commodity Trap: About ten miles south of Louisville, Kentucky on Interstate 65, there is what I consider to be the greatest billboard in the world. It’s a billboard that is...
