by Bruce Turkel | Jan 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
Last week we talked about how the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB) has built a tourism marketing machine by focusing on building the singular Miami brand (you can read that post HERE). Thanks to aggressively pursuing this strategy, recent...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Owen Frager is Chief Innovation Officer of the Frager Creative Group, one of the nation’s first virtual marketing communications agencies serving Fortune 500 brands.There’s a lot more to interactive digital marketing than eye-catching banner ads, discount packages,...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’m sitting in a marketing committee meeting at the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB). The GMCVB is a very long-term client of ours and a great example of a client who ‘gets it.’ As with most committee meetings, we go around the room and each...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
For years there’s been an ongoing debate regarding the veracity of research in the advertising world. On one side of the argument are the research proponents who believe that consumer attitudes and purchasing preferences can be accurately determined through...
by Bruce Turkel | Nov 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
It was in middle school literature classes that literary tools such as onomatopoeia, sarcasm, and symbolism, were first introduced. I had already learned about onomatopoeia from Mad magazine where the sound effects balloon blasting out of a shotgun in a saloon read,...
