by Bruce Turkel | Jan 9, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Experience Economy We live in a consumer society. Companies produce products and incent consumers to purchase. Media and marketing professionals build programs to create desire for those products, giving consumers more and more reasons to buy. And mass culture is...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 15, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Australian company SAMS has been working to create a new wetsuit design to lessen the fear of shark attacks. SAMS (the company name is an acronym that stands for Shark Attack Mitigation Systems) says their designs have been optimized to effectively hide surfers...
by Bruce Turkel | Nov 9, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
By now you’ve probably seen the Emirates video. In it Jetman Dubai pilots Yves Rossy and Vince Reffet fly alongside an Emirates A380 airliner. If you haven’t watched the Emirates video yet, click HERE. It’s exciting and dramatic. In fact, it’s...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 20, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The two guys sitting next to me on the plane disrupted my peace and quiet by chattering away like old friends. I couldn’t open up my laptop until we “reached a comfortable cruising altitude of 10,000 feet” so I was stuck listening to them even though I really...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 20, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Power of Patterns My friend and the lead guitar player for The Southbound Suspects, Phil Allen, put himself through law school at the University of Florida by singing and playing his guitar in bars around Gainesville. Years later Phil still wows audiences by...