by Bruce Turkel | Apr 10, 2018 | Keynote speaking
I spend a lot of time speaking at corporate conferences and events. In 2018 alone I’ve already spoken in San Diego, Mexico, San Francisco (twice), Maui, New Orleans, Seattle, Naples, Miami, and Ft. Lauderdale. And this month I’m heading to Phoenix, Albuquerque, Amelia...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 3, 2018 | Bruce Turkel, Marketing & Advertising
It’ll be on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.Listen. Did you hear it? The opening shot of the revolution was just fired. And most of us pretended the sound was business as usual. A few years ago, way way back in 2008, Dave Carroll had his guitar broken by United...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 28, 2018 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Marketing & Advertising
Every bit of up-to-date business advice I read talks about how important it is to properly manage your contact list. Whether the author calls a prospect list “a community,” “a tribe,” “a database,” “a sales roster” or a “contact list,” the suggestions are usually the...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Seeing Through Transparency Legends and fairy tales have always been a great way of looking at what society finds both frightening or exemplary. For example, back in Medieval times, the plagues that spread unseen contagion fed the original vampire legends. And as...
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...