A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
AL RIESThe crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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If you CAN’T then all the advertising, fancy packaging, sales promotion and public relations in the world won’t help you achieve your objective.
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War and marketing have many similarities.
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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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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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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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.
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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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