by Bruce Turkel | Apr 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
VIA my brilliant friend Bob Wright in Orlando: “I feel lucky to be watching a marketing lesson on at least two of the four P’s of marketing — pricing and promotion, especially the use of price as strategy — provided by Disney. No picking sides...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
Did you know that the most valuable thing in a Tiffany’s Jewelry Store comes free with every purchase but you can’t buy one at any price? It’s their signature robin’s egg blue shopping bag and it makes everything Tiffany’s sells, from a...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 30, 2007 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Marketing & Advertising
Have you seen Australia’s new tourism campaign — So Where The Bloody Hell Are You? If you live in Dubai, Singapore or Canada you probably won’t. That’s because those countries censored the ad for three different reasons. Canada doesn’t...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
After 350 years of accepting that an apple will inevitably fall because of gravity, Steve Jobs has created his own theory. ABC News reports that Apple has now broken into the travel industry by negotiating deals with several airlines to make their planes “iPod...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 6, 2007 | Branding, Marketing & Advertising
By now you’ve no doubt read about Howard Schultz’s memo to Starbucks’ management bemoaning the loss of the “Starbucks’ experience.” It’s been in Forbes, BusinessWeek, on CNN and all over the blogesphere. It seems as if...
