by Bruce Turkel | Dec 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
I usually try to write about branding and marketing related issues. Sometimes I’m able to tie those posts into chats about my morning runs at various hotels. Not this time. On Saturday I did my longest run to date and have come up with no business value at all....
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
Stanley Turkel, MHS, ISHC.As a hotel industry historian, I was happy to come across a Wall Street Journal front page article dated December 12, 1972. ‘Economy Motels Lure Travelers With Prices as Low as $6 a Room.’What caught my attention was the opening...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
VIA guest blogger Owen Frager: Instinctively, every small business owner understands the importance of brand equity, even if they may not be able to define the idea. Marketing-speak aside, brand equity is how your customer recognizes why you are different and better...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
Today I had lunch with an old friend and very successful attorney who is the founder of an important charity. His girlfriend is in the real estate business and she’s in touch with people’s current economic situations. Her suggestion to him was that the charity...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
An open letter to resort hotel owners: I was running on the cart path of the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort (Click here to read blog post) when it dawned on me that hoteliers are missing out on a wonderful market by not making their courses welcoming to runners. First of...
