by Bruce Turkel | Apr 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
At a recent Search Engine Strategies conference, GM’s CEO for Latin America was on the panel talking about how GM had set up a blog for their executives and how they were allowing uncensored comment from anyone who cared to participate. When Federico Calvo from my...
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 | Feb 8, 2007 | Branding, Marketing & Advertising
1. All About Them. Your consumer is your first priority. What do you know about them? What don’t you know? What motivates them? What keeps them up at night? The answers to these questions all come from understanding your consumer—their motivations, their lifestyle,...
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...
