by Bruce Turkel | Feb 10, 2020 | Leadership
Accounting for Accountability Just about a year ago, my daughter Aliana relocated from Washington DC to Los Angeles. I had recently sold my business and had newly minted free time on my hands. Plus, I had a great keynote speaker gig scheduled in Anaheim, California,...
by marketing.bruceturkel | Jan 29, 2020 | Bruce Turkel, Building Brand Value, Marketing & Advertising
Up on stage as the opening keynote speaker, I explained to my audience why their efforts branding their businesses by promoting the functions of what they sell or what they do was ineffectual. Instead, I suggested they should spend their time establishing an emotional...
by marketing.bruceturkel | Jan 8, 2020 | Leadership
How often have you said, “the more things change, the more they stay the same”? It seems like I hear that quite a bit. Do you know where that saying comes from? Neither do I. But I do know that saying is people’s pat response to cope with their fear of the unknown....
by marketing.bruceturkel | Dec 25, 2019 | Branding, Building Brand Value
Newton’s Third Law of Motion states: “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.” Later, The Byrds rerecorded Pete Seeger’s interpretation of a passage from the Book of Ecclesiastes: “For everything, (turn turn turn) there is a season.” And so, we all believe...
by marketing.bruceturkel | Dec 11, 2019 | Branding, Building Brand Value
If you’ve been reading anything about the goings on at Art Basel in Miami, you’ve probably heard about the $120,000 banana. If you haven’t, here’s what my buddy Keith Harmeyer wrote about the most talked-about work of art at this year’s show: Duct-taped Bananas The...
