by Bruce Turkel | Mar 28, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Monetize talent.Vincent Van Gogh died broken and penniless. He could not monetize talent. Takashi Murakami figured out how to monetize talent. He makes big money selling cartoonish figures and licensing his outrageous designs for $5,000 limited edition Louis Vuitton...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 24, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Gwyneth Paltrow, Green Eggs, and Vaginas.Gwyneth Paltrow has sold a lot of interesting products on her Goop website. For some reason, it seems like some of the most popular products have to do with her customers’ vaginas. Back in January 2015, the actress...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 13, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Change Before You’re Forced To Change. To understand the need for change, let’s review the history of the advertising industry. The business was started in the 1800’s when the publisher of a farm journal realized tractor manufacturers, seed...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 29, 2016 | All About Them, Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Selling Books.Selling books has gone from “If you build it they will come,” to “If you write it, will they come?” It used to be that if you wrote a book people would read it. After all, there weren’t that many books out there to begin with and there...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 8, 2016 | All About Them, Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Write a Book. My mom has lived on Miami Beach since before I was born. She still lives less than a mile from where I grew up. Every few weeks my mom gets together with her friends and goes to lunch or to the botanical gardens. The friends have known each other – and...
