by Bruce Turkel | Aug 10, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Last week, Melissa Francis at FOX Business did a story on BuzzFeed’s review of fast food marketing. The site created a sliding scale format that compared the pictures of fast food presented in advertising with the actual items you’d be handed across the counter. Even...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 3, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Last week we talked about what happens when critics judge new ideas too quickly and often risk sentencing great ideas to obscurity; in that case, Airbnb’s new logo that was compared to “certain female anatomy.” (Branding Gone Wrong) But what happens when the creative...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 29, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
You’ve all seen the sordid headlines by now—there’s nothing useful I can add. LA Clippers’ basketball team owner Donald Sterling made disgraceful racist remarks, and now the team’s market value is plummeting and the NBA and others are scrambling for a way to rescue...
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. ” But here’s...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 24, 2013 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Have you upgraded to iOS 7 yet? If you’re an Apple iPhone or iPad user you know what I’m talking about (if you aren’t an Apple user, indulge me please and read on. You’ll catch on quickly.) iOS 7 is Apple’s chief of design Jonathan Ive’s first public shot at...
