You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
AL RIESPositioning is not what you do to a product.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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What should a brand leader advertise?
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Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
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The new product, if it’s going to be successful, is going to require a new name. New ladder, new name. It’s as simple as that.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.
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A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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IBM didn’t invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect’s mind.
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