by Bruce Turkel | Apr 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Don’t Watch That, Watch This. Marketing in the Days of Coronavirus. We think the movie Babe did it. Because when our daughter Ali was only eight-years old she announced that she wouldn’t eat anything if it meant killing animals. And at sixteen she became a committed...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 2, 2020 | Branding, Keynote speaking
Greetings from 36,000 feet. I’m heading home from a speaking gig in Houston and I’m using my airplane quiet time to reflect on the things I learned at the conference I was attending. I’m also making lists of things I want to do and the things I want my staff to do...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 19, 2020 | Branding, Keynote speaking
Thanks to all the recent press about reclining airline seats, I have a question for you: When do airline passengers have a right to recline their seat? A. Whenever they want, it’s their seat. B. Almost never, c’mon, there’s someone sitting behind them. C. It depends...
by marketing.bruceturkel | Dec 25, 2019 | Branding, Building Brand Value
Newton’s Third Law of Motion states: “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.” Later, The Byrds rerecorded Pete Seeger’s interpretation of a passage from the Book of Ecclesiastes: “For everything, (turn turn turn) there is a season.” And so, we all believe...
by marketing.bruceturkel | Dec 11, 2019 | Branding, Building Brand Value
If you’ve been reading anything about the goings on at Art Basel in Miami, you’ve probably heard about the $120,000 banana. If you haven’t, here’s what my buddy Keith Harmeyer wrote about the most talked-about work of art at this year’s show: Duct-taped Bananas The...