by Bruce Turkel | Jul 11, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Ashley Madison on Branding Adultery From last Wednesday's New York Times: “Ashley Madison, a service that claims to facilitate extramarital affairs, has been in repair mode since last summer, when hackers exposed information attached to more that 30 million accounts...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 22, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
What is a brand?My pal (and incredible drummer and very funny guy) Allen Lynch bought me a wonderful present for my birthday. Allen actually found a company out west to handcraft a genuine branding iron with my company's logo on it. It's a… “Turkel Brand.” Since I...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 7, 2016 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Turning liabilities into assets. I've talked about it many times right here. Every four years we get the opportunity to watch the most important branding contest anywhere. And if we can just pry off our partisan hats for a little while we can really learn from the...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 15, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Australian company SAMS has been working to create a new wetsuit design to lessen the fear of shark attacks. SAMS (the company name is an acronym that stands for Shark Attack Mitigation Systems) says their designs have been optimized to effectively hide surfers...
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...