by marketing.bruceturkel | Jul 31, 2019 | Building Brand Value
It’s not the most attractive image, I know. But I got up from the table with something stuck between my teeth. I walked through the dining room to the front counter looking for the little cup filled with toothpicks. After circling the front desk and reception area a...
by marketing.bruceturkel | May 22, 2019 | Branding
Your kids can’t tell time. Did you know that? Really, they can’t tell time. Don’t believe me? Test them some time. Wait until you’re in a room with an analog clock and a teenager or a twenty-something. Tell them they can’t look at their phone and then ask them the...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 23, 2019 | Marketing & Advertising, Uncategorized
If you’ve consumed any popular culture at all, you’ve probably seen some of the brouhaha Gillette’s new ad calling out Toxic Masculinity. The commercial appealed to men to ‘be better,’ over scenes of boys wrestling at a BBQ, men lewdly whistling and jeering at women,...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 14, 2018 | Branding
Metaphors and allegories are often great ways to make complicated examples simple. In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave,” the philosopher used the idea of prisoners chained to a wall and seeing only the shadows of other people to express the concept of actual and...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 4, 2017 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
When is Enough Enough? The table Jimmy Buffett was sitting at was off to the side of the dining room but not really private. After all, most of the diners at Joe’s Stone Crab Restaurant are there to see and be seen. Tables are placed to accommodate their wishes....
