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...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 29, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
How to create a brand.My buddy’s daughter is a talented graphic designer. To fulfill her life’s dream she took a job with a very famous movie studio with the promise that she’d get to design posters and campaigns. The people who hired her insisted they brought her on...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 22, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Sir Charlie Chaplin wrote the melody for the tune Smile in 1936 for his film Modern Times. The lyrics were added in 1954. Since then Smile has become a popular standard of the classic song book and has been recorded by everyone from Nat King Cole to Diana Ross, Tony...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 20, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
I’m sitting on a panel in a university auditorium listening to one of my fellow panelists talk about how to improve your image, the subject of our conference. I’ve already prepared my answer to the question asked by the group so now I’m looking up and out into the...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 2, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
I’ve stayed in a lot of Marriott hotels lately. Plenty of the conferences I attend and speak at are organized at Marriott properties and I’m a member of the Marriott affinity program so the collected room nights earn me free breakfasts and occasional upgrades. But...