by Bruce Turkel | Feb 23, 2014 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
I travel so often that it wasn't until my daughter was 13 or 14 that she figured out that shampoo comes in large bottles too. Because so much of that travel relates to building compelling tourism brands for destinations around the world, I often sit in the plane on...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
The most exciting and profitable part of my business is often also the most frustrating — valuing our ideas. After all, clients don't come to us because they want to be patrons of the arts. They call us up and hire us because they have a problem and they need to find...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 10, 2012 | Branding
Remember the scene in the movie Poltergeist when the worried parents came home to find their young daughter staring at a TV screen of static? The spooky little girl turned around and announced to her terrified folks, “They're here.” I felt that way when I saw the...
by Bruce Turkel | Nov 19, 2012 | Branding
Think back 20 years. You had just checked into your hotel. You went up to your room and found a disgustingly large cockroach scrabbling around in your bathtub. After you screamed or screeched or hopped up on the toilet tank, you called the front desk and they got rid...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 10, 2012 | Branding
Here's something I don't understand: Status, financial success, legislative power, and importance are all the providence of commerce. Yet when we look back over history we see that great societies are remembered not by the business they did but by the art they...
