by Bruce Turkel | Feb 7, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Trump Effect. When Uber eliminated their surge pricing during the JFK taxi strike, #deleteUber trended across social media. In a lightning-fast response, competitor Lyft announced that they were donating $1 million to the ACLU. Two days later, CEO Travis Kalanick...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 31, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Brand Battlefield The Trump administration banned immigration from seven predominately Muslim countries. Two days later Starbucks' chairman and chief executive officer, Howard Schultz, marched onto the brand battlefield and promised the company will hire 10,000...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
AdAge reported that Toyota is thinking of firing its ad agencies and doing everything in-house. My friend Andrew Jaffee has some interesting comments: Toyota spends $900 million in measured media in the U.S. alone, according to Nielsen. That means they're probably...
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 Schultz's coffee memo is almost as...
