It normally takes decades to build a brand… It’s the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth.
AL RIESTHE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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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 what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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What should a brand leader advertise?
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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Successful brands get into the mind slowly. A blurb in a magazine. A mention in a newspaper. A comment from a friend. A display in a retail store.
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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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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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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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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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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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