by Bruce Turkel | Apr 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Don't Watch That, Watch This. Marketing in the Days of Coronavirus. We think the movie Babe did it. Because when our daughter Ali was only eight-years old she announced that she wouldn't eat anything if it meant killing animals. And at sixteen she became a committed...
by marketing.bruceturkel | Dec 4, 2019 | Branding, Building Brand Value
The small conference rooms held about twenty people in their late twenties or early thirties. Their job was to sell Bacardi products to legal drinking age (LDA) consumers. I started our presentation by showing the different bars we visited around the country. Then I...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 29, 2018 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Building Brand Value
I love old Porsches. I'm partial to air-cooled 911s but I find vintage 356s fascinating too. There are plenty of other cool old cars that always make me look twice, but nothing says “damn” better than a classic Porsche. I love music. Blues, rock, salsa, and classical...
by Bruce Turkel | May 2, 2018 | All About Them
I recently stopped at Enriqueta's for breakfast. Enriqueta's is a little Cuban coffee shop on 29th Street, smack dab in the center of Miami's exploding Midtown/Wynwood/Design District area.As the Miami New Times wrote, “Between 6:15 and 11:00 a.m., a cross section of...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 14, 2018 | Branding
Metaphors and allegories are often great ways to make complicated examples simple. In Plato's “The Allegory of the Cave,” the philosopher used the idea of prisoners chained to a wall and seeing only the shadows of other people to express the concept of actual and...
