by Bruce Turkel | Dec 5, 2018 | Branding, Bruce Turkel
Seven brutal hours into the negotiation, the people facing each other in the law firm conference room are only $100,000 apart. The plaintiff’s attorneys had demanded three-quarters of a million dollars. The defense attorneys had insisted the case wasn’t worth a penny...
by Bruce Turkel | Nov 14, 2018 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Building Brand Value
“I went to Whole Foods for the first time since they were bought by Amazon. I read they lowered the price of salmon to $9.99/lb. Wow! We love healthy salmon! They do have salmon for $9.99. But after reading the 5-point type, I saw that all of their lower-priced salmon...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 3, 2018 | All About Them, Branding, Bruce Turkel
Sometimes a thing looks like both the component parts that make up the thing and a collection of the thing itself. A rock, for example, looks both like a grain of sand and a mountain. Chunks of ice, too, look both like ice crystals and icebergs. Human nature can often...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 26, 2018 | Bruce Turkel, Building Brand Value
There are a lot of reasons why I don’t ever check my bags when I get on a flight: First, I believe that there are only two kinds of luggage; carry-on and lost. Case in point, Gloria and I attended an over-the-top 50th birthday party in Austria that included a...