by Bruce Turkel | May 19, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Listen to enough writers talk about their Muse and sooner or later it’ll dawn on you that while the act of writing is thought of lots of different ways, few of them are pleasant. Ernest Hemingway found looking for his Muse torturous. According to legend, Papa...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 14, 2013 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
[Please note: I am on vacation this week and sharing one of my favorite posts from a few years ago. If it’s new to you, I hope you enjoy it. If you’re reading it for the second time, I hope you enjoy it again.] Do you know how to read musical notation? If you do you...
by Bruce Turkel | May 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Do you know where good ideas come from? Don’t feel bad, neither do I. Surprising, perhaps, considering my advertising agency is responsible for coming up with great ideas for our clients every single day. I know how to present ideas; I know how to sell ideas. And like...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
The power of euphemisms is something that most people don’t think about at all but we marketers obsess over. I was in a board meeting and discussing new ideas when the guy at the head of the table commented on the concepts. He started with, “You know, it’s...
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...
