Bruce Turkel

Learn the seven simple steps to building, maintaining, and communicating a great brand. Bruce 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.

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 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.

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.

Every four years we’re lucky enough to watch the best real-time branding lesson available anywhere — the campaign for the President of the United States is a master’s level class in how to build a brand (and how not to!).

Brand expert Bruce Turkel looks at the election and sees things that no one else notices. Bruce breaks down the lessons that are unfolding right in front of our very eyes in an insightful,educational, and entertaining way. Regardless of which side of the aisle you’re on, you’ll never look at — or learn more from — the election the same way again.