by Bruce Turkel | Mar 15, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Marketing & Advertising
Smart Luggage for the Connected Age promised the title in last week’s New York Times. It featured a company that’s releasing “smart luggage” packed with up-to-the-minute features including “a Bluetooth-enabled lock, GPS tracking, and a USB port for recharging a...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 9, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Brian Williams is toast.Brian Williams is not going to return to NBC Nightly News. He is not going to reenergize his news career. He’s not going to make a comeback. Brian Williams is toast. Williams has promised to get back on the air, saying, “Upon my return I will...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Want to know how to ask for money? Pull off any expressway and down onto any exit ramp in any big city in America and you’ll probably have the same experience: There will be a man or woman dressed in soiled clothes and filthy sneakers standing at the red light hoping...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 20, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Folly of Function:We were about eighteen minutes into our morning run when Jen’s running watch and my running watch both started beeping. “That’s two miles.” I said between gasps for air. “Reassuring that the two GPS watches measured our distance exactly the...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
At the end of every year television and the Internet are inundated with top ten lists – the best top ten lists of this, the worst top ten lists of that – and 2014 is no different.Taking a page out of this time-honored tradition of top ten lists, I thought I’d review...