by Bruce Turkel | Jan 6, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
At first glance, cooking and baking seem to be different sides of the same coin. They both require various edible ingredients. They both require skill and knowledge. They both call for cutting, chopping, mixing, and stirring. And they both can create good things to...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 15, 2013 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
My friend Phil Allen, brilliant lawyer and blazing lead guitar player for The Southbound Suspects, told me this story: The defense attorney was questioning the prosecution’s star witness. “So you say you actually saw my client bite off the victim’s ear in the bar...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 10, 2013 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
I don’t usually use this space to rant. I try to be thoughtful, even-tempered, and even a bit circumspect in what I write about here. But today I’m typing this post with my teeth firmly clenched together and my fingers smacking the keyboard. A few months ago I spoke...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
How do you feel about typos? I hate ‘em. The few times I’ve discovered mistakes in my blog posts (or worse, when you’ve discovered a typo and called me on it) I die the death by a thousand cuts. Humiliating and eternally painful, typos are the shorthand indications of...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m sitting in the Admiral’s Club at LaGuardia Airport catching up on my emails and reading the comments on my latest blog post. A lot of you responded to The Five Biggest Lies In Business and most of the comments were directed at point three, “To be successful,...
