by Bruce Turkel | Jan 20, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Folly of Function:We were about eighteen minutes into our morning run when Jen’s running watch and my running watch both started beeping. “That’s two miles.” I said between gasps for air. “Reassuring that the two GPS watches measured our distance exactly the...
by Bruce Turkel | Nov 17, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Victoria’s Secret UK showed a lineup of beautiful young women wearing their lingerie under the headline “The Perfect Body” and generated over 26,000 angry signatures. Protesters complained that the campaign “offensive and damaging to women.” The uproar was not enough...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 18, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
There’s always one in every group and our harmonica master class was no different. Each time the instructor would ask if there were any questions, “That Guy” would raise his hand. “Little Walter was the best. And I read somewhere he used a 1940’s Astatic taxi...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 1, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
If you’ve read my blog before you know I’m obsessed with traveling light. That’s because a minimalist mindset makes travel more enjoyable and stress-free. Also I believe there are only two kinds of luggage – carry-on and lost. I’ve written about this before, listing a...
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 on...
