What should a brand leader advertise?
AL RIESA successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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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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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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Only brand names register in the mind… What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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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.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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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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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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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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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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