by Bruce Turkel | Jan 5, 2015 | Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
My dad was a lot of things. High school basketball center. Air Force navigator. Civil rights leader. Developer. Entrepreneur. Musician. Community advocate. Superhero. And of course, husband, brother, son, and father. A true Renaissance man.As Jeremy Mikolajczak,...
by Bruce Turkel | May 12, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
With his dark sunglasses, slicked back hair, and untucked short-sleeve shirts, Mr. R was the coolest dad in our Miami Beach neighborhood. He’d pick us up in his enormous navy blue Lincoln Continental, and let us slide across the slickly mink-oiled cordovan...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 23, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
A number of years ago I tried to figure out why our ad agency wasn’t quite as successful as I would have liked. It finally dawned on me that we had been trying to sell something our clients might not have been interested in buying. Quite simply, we were trying...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 23, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
I travel so often that it wasn’t until my daughter was 13 or 14 that she figured out that shampoo comes in large bottles too. Because so much of that travel relates to building compelling tourism brands for destinations around the world, I often sit in the plane...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 10, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The flight to San Juan was scheduled to leave at 7:25 AM, so my mental math looked something like this: “Want to get to airport an hour early, that’s 6:25 AM. Thirty minutes to get to airport, that’s 6:00. Half an hour to get ready, gotta get up at 5:30. ”...
