by Bruce Turkel | Jan 2, 2018 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Leadership, Marketing & Advertising
Retail purchases used to be made in bricks and mortar stores. Today, more and more sales are made online. Politicians and celebrities used to communicate with voters through press secretaries, publicists, and multi-level public relations. Today, more and more of them...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 5, 2017 | Branding, Keynote speaking, Leadership, Marketing & Advertising
Sometime in the 1980s, President Baking’s Murrays released a new cracker product designed specifically to compete with Nabisco’s Ritz Cracker. Murray’s product looked the same, tasted the same, and was delivered in a red and yellow package that...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 31, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Rarified Results of Moving from an Organization to a Destination. A few years before my agency started marketing Miami, Time Magazine featured the city under the headline “Paradise Lost.” In September 2017 Miami International Airport reported record monthly...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 19, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Writing A Great Tagline Last night I noticed that Lexus has a new tagline. Even though I don’t drive one of their cars, I am a big fan of the company and their advertising. That’s because Lexus and their marketing professionals clearly understood the All...
by Bruce Turkel | May 10, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Marketing & Advertising
You know the old joke: Q: “How do you get to Carnegie Hall? A: “Practice, man, practice.” This joke was probably never funny but it was accurate. In the old days before the Internet was as common as sense is not, the ability to do something well was the best predictor...