by Bruce Turkel | Nov 13, 2008 | Uncategorized
From my brilliant buddy Owen Frager, a heartfelt and touching letter from Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos. Reprinted here with respect and gratitude. “Last week was a tough week for everyone, as we went through the process of laying off 8% of the Zappos family. At the...
by Bruce Turkel | Nov 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
By guest blogger Vanessa Horwell With the endless discourse of cutbacks, staff layoffs and general economic woes, it’s very hard for us marketers not to hop aboard the fear-monger’s bandwagon. In the past couple of weeks, we have seen the Christian Science Monitor...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
This weekend I spoke at a conference for The Keyes Company on a Carnival cruise ship. Although my wife and I spent a lot of time in our cabin watching CNN to see what Obama, Biden, McCain, Palin and Saturday Night Live would do in the campaign’s final days, we still...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
VIA Business Week Gutsy marketers spend into the teeth of a recession. Several of BusinessWeek’s 100 Best Global Brands are doing exactly that by Burt Helm Every time a recession threatens, executives glare at the balance sheet and wonder aloud about one...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
While Hurricane Fay was threatening our houses in the Keys and Miami, I packed my bags for a trip to VisitFlorida’s Florida Governor’s Conference on Tourism at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando. My wife pointed out that I’d also been out of town for the...
