by Bruce Turkel | Jan 9, 2017 | Advertising, Branding, Bruce Turkel, Speaker, Turkel
The Experience Economy We live in a consumer society. Companies produce products and incent consumers to purchase. Media and marketing professionals build programs to create desire for those products, giving consumers more and more reasons to buy. And mass culture is...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 29, 2015 | Advertising, Branding, Bruce Turkel, Speaker, Turkel
The world is undergoing change at an almost unimaginably rapid speed. Technology has forever changed the way we do things. Some companies are figuring out their new place in the world and lots aren’t. Disintermediation is eliminating markets, making certain skill sets...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 20, 2014 | Advertising, Branding, Bruce Turkel, Speaker, Turkel
The two guys sitting next to me on the plane disrupted my peace and quiet by chattering away like old friends. I couldn’t open up my laptop until we “reached a comfortable cruising altitude of 10,000 feet” so I was stuck listening to them even though I really didn’t...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
Sitting in the downstairs conference room of the gorgeous Condado Vanderbilt Hotel in San Juan, I would ordinarily be staring out the window at the crashing surf except that Martin Stoll, the brilliant and understated founder of social media consultancy Sparkloft...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 30, 2014 | Advertising, Branding, Bruce Turkel, Speaker, Turkel
We jogged past the Matheson Hammock tidal basin and reached the bay just as half of the giant sun poked above the horizon and Biscayne Bay reflected a brilliant orange carpet straight to the shore. Neither Bob, Tim nor I had our phones with us so the scene will have...