by Bruce Turkel | Jun 22, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Remember the village idiot? He was the only one person who watched the naked emperor parade down the street and pointed out that the emperor wasn’t wearing clothes. Everyone else fumfered and mumbled and looked at their feet. Only the village idiot dared mouth what...
by Bruce Turkel | May 11, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Please take a minute to think about the words IF and BUT. Such little words but they can have such a big impact on your brand. Do you realize that if you add the words IF or BUT to an apology it demeans the sentiment and neuters the meaning? “I’m sorry IF you thought...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 15, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Last Friday’s edition of The New York Times included two stories on the trouble with transparency that few readers probably connected even though the problem affects all of us. One article was about how Brian Williams “misremembered” his flight on a United States...
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 | Dec 10, 2013 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
All new media is porn. Whether it’s because of our endless fascination with sex or the media creators’ desire to monetize their inventions, each time there’s a new way to reach people, one of the first uses is distributing the pornography of the day. Way back in...
