by Bruce Turkel | Nov 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
By guest blogger Vanessa Horwell With the endless discourse of cutbacks, staff layoffs and general economic woes, it’s very hard for us marketers not to hop aboard the fear-monger’s bandwagon. In the past couple of weeks, we have seen the Christian Science Monitor...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
A gathering of over 700 marketers and advertising sorts down in Orlando for an ANA conference have voted Barack Obama as Ad Age’s Marketer of the Year. Obama beat out Apple, Zappos and, yes, John McCain. Complete story here.
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
VIA Business Week Gutsy marketers spend into the teeth of a recession. Several of BusinessWeek’s 100 Best Global Brands are doing exactly that by Burt Helm Every time a recession threatens, executives glare at the balance sheet and wonder aloud about one...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
VIA AdAge: “As marketers and media buyers scramble for more street-level advertising space in big cities, store windows are emerging as a new kind of billboard… Store operators and building owners are going for the idea because it turns under used...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 21, 2007 | Branding, Bruce Turkel
In the highly competitive world of sports marketing, companies have to guard their brands very carefully. So even superstars Ray Lewis and Kobe Bryant (who were eventually cleared of the allegations against them) ended up waiting months for a sponsorship opportunity....