by Bruce Turkel | Jan 18, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
There are people who make a practice of not positioning themselves across from me at board meetings. That’s because I spend my time in those meetings drawing caricatures of everyone sitting around the conference table. Actually, I draw pictures of everyone except the...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 5, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Walk around Las Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and one thing starts to stand out — electronics manufacturers and distributors have fully embraced tablet computing. Just a few years after Apple introduced its first iPad, it seems as if every single company has...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 20, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
I’m sitting on a panel in a university auditorium listening to one of my fellow panelists talk about how to improve your image, the subject of our conference. I’ve already prepared my answer to the question asked by the group so now I’m looking up and out into the...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 12, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Sometime near the end of seventh grade I got my first report card with all As. This had never happened before because of my abysmal performance in phys. ed. It would never happen again because along with pimples and puberty, eighth grade introduced me to the...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 27, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
By now everyone on the planet knows about Volkswagen’s troubles. Quite simply, Volkswagen knowingly and maliciously installed software in their “smart diesel” cars designed to provide false emissions readings to government testers around the world. Estimates are that...