by Bruce Turkel | Aug 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
Click HERE if you’d rather watch the video. It’s Thursday morning about 6:45 in Miami and I am soaking wet. Of course, my day didn’t start out this way. I met my running group at 5:45 this morning, right across the street from the University of...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 8, 2021 | All About Them, Branding, Bruce Turkel, Building Brand Value, Is That All There Is?
Click HERE if you’d rather watch the video. I remember an example of the power of great copywriting, where adding one simple word doubled a product’s sales almost overnight. The product was shampoo. The word was “repeat.” The new line that sold so much...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 16, 2021 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Building Brand Value, Uncategorized
Eight years ago Paul Davison was scooping ice cream at SXSW. Today he is a cofounder in Clubhouse, the hottest social media service around. Admit it, after Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram became ubiquitous you didn’t think there could be...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 12, 2021 | All About Them, Branding, Building Brand Value, Is That All There Is?, Leadership
You probably know Matt Groening as the wildly successful creator of The Simpsons. The show is the longest-running primetime series in US and has won 32 Emmy Awards, ten in the category of Outstanding Animated Program alone. What’s more, its record 636...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 20, 2020 | Branding, Building Brand Value, Marketing & Advertising
Back in 1996 I was browsing the shelves of a bookstore (remember them?) when I happened across Caleb Carr’s novel The Alienist. I was already a big fan of historical fiction, especially concerning the Victorian age, and the book became an instant favor of mine....