by marketing.bruceturkel | Sep 25, 2019 | Branding
The one hour, time-certain meeting convened at 10:00 AM. It’s 11:45 and we’re only about halfway through the agenda. The enormous conference table is completely surrounded, and even more people fill the folding chairs around the walls. A DOT engineer is making his...
by marketing.bruceturkel | Sep 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
I write this blog for three reasons: To create and maintain relationships with you and everyone who reads what I write, To stay top-of-mind and create opportunities, and To paraphrase John Lee Hooker’s Boogie Chillen’: “I gotta let that boy boogie-woogie, It’s in him,...
by marketing.bruceturkel | Feb 27, 2019 | Building Brand Value
Here’s a fascinating dichotomy: The management structure in most hotels is very hierarchical. The org chart pyramid starts at the top with the owner, then the General Manager, then the department directors (Food & Beverage, Housekeeping, Grounds Keeping,...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 19, 2018 | All About Them, Branding, Bruce Turkel
An oxymoron is defined as a contradiction in terms. In other words, an oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. Perhaps you’ve noticed oxymorons such as cruel kindness, living death, reality television, non-dairy...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 5, 2018 | Branding, Bruce Turkel
Seven brutal hours into the negotiation, the people facing each other in the law firm conference room are only $100,000 apart. The plaintiff’s attorneys had demanded three-quarters of a million dollars. The defense attorneys had insisted the case wasn’t worth a penny...