by Bruce Turkel | Jun 30, 2020 | Branding, Leadership, Marketing & Advertising
Berry Gordy Jr., founder of Motown Records, was a notoriously mercurial and mercenary businessman. Although Gordy was responsible for some of the most powerful, popular, and passionate R&B and soul music ever created, the stories of him making musical decisions...
by Bruce Turkel | May 6, 2020 | All About Them, Building Brand Value
Coronavirus and the Tyranny of Seamlessness. Ironically enough, one of the most important aspects to shooting good video is the audio. I’ve learned that viewers will put up with fuzzy shots or shaky images, but if the sound is bad or hard to hear, they’ll sign off...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 21, 2020 | All About Them, Branding, Uncategorized
What Will Coronavirus Change? What Will Coronavirus Not Change? People who look ahead to let us know what’s going to happen call themselves futurists or prophets. The more cynical amongst us call them crystal ball gazers or witch doctors. After all, if fortune tellers...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Don’t Watch That, Watch This. Marketing in the Days of Coronavirus. We think the movie Babe did it. Because when our daughter Ali was only eight-years old she announced that she wouldn’t eat anything if it meant killing animals. And at sixteen she became a committed...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 30, 2020 | Branding
Love In The Time of Choler… Coronavirus One of the fun things I do when I’m up on stage is play the harmonica. I often open my talks by performing Minuet in G by Johann Sebastian Bach followed by a blues number written by Sonnyboy Williamson. Why? Because I want to...
