Bruce Turkel

As CEO of the successful brand management firm, TURKEL, speaker Bruce Turkel has been creating and working with valuable brands for over 30 years. Bruce has helped create some of the world’s most compelling brands. Bruce has worked with Hasbro, Nike, American Express, Charles Schwab, Citicorp, Discovery Networks and Bacardi, to name just a few.

A captivating speaker and author, Bruce has spoken at MIT, Harvard, TEDx, and hundreds of corporate and industry conferences. Bruce has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, and AdWeek and appears regularly on FOX Business. He’s also been a featured expert on CNN, ABC, CBS, and NPR.

7 Steps to Building Brand Value

Learn the seven simple steps to building, maintaining, and communicating a great brand. Speaker Bruce Turkel provides entertaining anecdotes and real world examples to illustrate the finer points of brand building. Add significant value to your products by making your products more valuable to your customers.

In this talk, audiences will learn:

• Why your brand is not about your company. And why understanding that matters more than anything else.
  • The critical secret to move your brand from company-centric to consumer-centric.
  • How to determine your authentic truth and why it’s more important than the function of your products or services.

Defining Your Brand Essence

BMW defines its brand essence with four words. Nike, GE and Wal-Mart use three. Barack Obama sold the most powerful product in the world with two: “Hope” and “Change.” In this multi-media speech, Bruce Turkel shows you how to reduce your brand message to its most practical, actionable, and compelling essence.

While they’re laughing, your audiences will also be learning:

• The three universal branding myths that are holding your company back.
  • The simple difference that sets all great brands apart, and
  • How to develop this game-changing difference for your brand.

You Don’t Need Social Media: You Need a Strategy

You don’t need social media. You don’t need a website. You don’t need mobile. You need a strategy.

Before you create noise, you’ve got to know what you’re creating noise about and why anyone should care.

Bruce Turkel shows his audiences exactly how to build their brands online. He will show you how to take the best tools, tips, and techniques from the analog world and move them online where they will generate global interest and response.

• Why an unfocused online presence is like a tree falling in a forest.
  • The danger of GMOOTs and how to avoid their traps.
  • How to build a powerful brand that will make a difference online.
  • How to tailor your message for each of the different social media.
  • How to get the most bang for your buck and increase the echo effect.

The Design of Sales

Instead of worrying about how well things work, consumers now buy things for how they look and feel, and more importantly, how the products make them look and feel.

Today an in-depth understanding of the modern consumers’ purchase motivations is what the best salespeople are using to push their products and services.

The savvy salesperson understands that their job has changed the best of them into editors and curators – constantly reappraising the aesthetic and lifestyle advantages of the products they sell and demonstrating these benefits to their customers.

In this talk, audiences will learn:

• How to uncover the motivations of today’s consumer.
  • The real difference between features and benefits and how to sell them.
  • Why the traditional “Speeds & Feeds” sales strategy does not work anymore and what has taken its place.
  • The critical difference between content and context, and how it can multiply your sales.
  • The special sales secrets that are hidden in plain sight.