by Bruce Turkel | Sep 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
My wife and I have a house on No Name Key in the Florida Keys. We live in a very small neighborhood of about eight houses, surrounded by acres of state and federal wildlife preserve land. No Name Key is at MM 32, directly east of Big Pine Key. You might recognize that...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 26, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
As you know by now, Hurricane Harvey drowned most of Texas. Hurricane Irma had its way with a score of Caribbean Islands and South Florida. And Hurricane Maria has devastated our friends in Puerto Rico. Worse still, Mexico suffered a lethal earthquake and 50,000...
by Bruce Turkel | Nov 28, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
eBah Humbug.I readily admit that this post is going to piss some people off. Especially the ones who were nice enough to send me the gratuitous greetings that inspired this rant. But please bear with me and read on. You’ll find there’s something valuable here to learn...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 22, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
How do you build a brand? A few years ago I sat in the audience at a Florida Governor’s Conference on Tourism. The keynote speaker was Tim Sanders and I was captivated by his presentation. Tim was the former chief solutions officer at Yahoo! and shared his simple...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 3, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
I just left a message for a highly successful buddy of mine. Or at least I tried reaching him. His receptionist was so busy, so stressed, and so rude that her best customer service was to tell me to “call back later.” Now as it happens, I will call back. And it won’t...