by Bruce Turkel | Oct 10, 2017 | Branding, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Two weeks ago I posted a blog about an 82-year old Fireman named Bob and how Hurricane Irma left him homeless. Along with the post I included a link to a GoFundMe site to raise money to help Bob rebuild his home. Although I’ve used social media very successfully...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 26, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
As you know by now, Hurricane Harvey drowned most of Texas. Hurricane Irma had its way with a score of Caribbean Islands and South Florida. And Hurricane Maria has devastated our friends in Puerto Rico. Worse still, Mexico suffered a lethal earthquake and 50,000...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 7, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Each time I get off the plane at San Juan‘s International Airport, my favorite PR shoeshine entrepreneur is there, waving crumpled passengers to his little polish parlor. I’m so fond of the five minutes I spend in his chair that I even make a point of...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 23, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
I travel so often that it wasn’t until my daughter was 13 or 14 that she figured out that shampoo comes in large bottles too. Because so much of that travel relates to building compelling tourism brands for destinations around the world, I often sit in the plane...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 10, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The flight to San Juan was scheduled to leave at 7:25 AM, so my mental math looked something like this: “Want to get to airport an hour early, that’s 6:25 AM. Thirty minutes to get to airport, that’s 6:00. Half an hour to get ready, gotta get up at 5:30. ”...