by marketing.bruceturkel | Aug 28, 2019 | Building Brand Value
My friend Naomi owns my favorite breakfast spot — the Madruga Bakery in Coral Gables, right across the street from the University of Miami. The best croissants in the world The Madruga Bakery serves the best croissants I’ve ever tasted, including ones I’ve oohed and...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 25, 2017 | Branding, Keynote speaking, Leadership, Marketing & Advertising
A dancing bear is a wild bear captured when the animal was young or a bear born in captivity and used to entertain people in the streets for money. Dancing bears were commonplace throughout Europe and Asia from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, and could...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 25, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Travel Technology. Greetings from Faro in the heart of the Portuguese Algarve. We just spent a week in Lisbon and Porto. Now we’re touring the southwest corner of the country before we drive across the border Portugal shares with Spain. We’ll be heading on to Seville...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 22, 2013 | Branding, Bruce Turkel
My friend and client, Juan, went on a holiday a couple of months ago. Juan’s from a small town in the Pyrenees, just outside of Barcelona, and he was going back home with his wife and kids for a two-week vacation. Unfortunately, it turned out to only be a one-week...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
During the negotiations on the terms of Spain’s bailout, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy sent a text to his finance minister. Encouraging the minister to be a tough negotiator, Rajoy wrote: “We’re the number four power in Europe. Spain is not Uganda.” Of course,...
