by Bruce Turkel | Dec 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
The other day Patrick sent an email suggesting that I link my blog email titles to my actual blog at https://www.turkeltalks.com . That way, readers could add the posts they’re interested in to their InstaPaper accounts and read them at their leisure. Post my...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
Has anyone else noticed the recent rash of Millennials hurting themselves or dying preventable deaths falling off of waterfalls, mountains, and bridges? A 26-year old from San Ramon “…hiked with three other people to the peak of Half Dome. She fell 600 feet to her...
by Bruce Turkel | May 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
While BP continues its efforts to try to stop the catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, promoting the Gulf beaches during the spill is a crisis on land for the Gulf Coast tourism industry. I recently spoke to National Public Radio (NPR) on how the Gulf region...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Hadji Williams, a 17-year advertising copywriter, posted this and I thought it was just too damn good not to share. Mr. Williams points out a lot of things I’ve often thought about, he just says them more eloquently than I ever have. You can reach him at...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
A few days ago I posted this on Twitter: “Problem with the newspaper biz is they have word PAPER in name. Change that & perception changes to the NEWS biz.” In a 21st Century example of putting the cart before the horse, that abbreviated Twitter post...