The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
AL RIESIf 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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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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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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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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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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It’s the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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What’s your brand? If you can’t answer that question about your own brand in two or three words, your brand’s in trouble.
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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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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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The reason is obvious. A well-known name got well-known because it stood for something. It occupies a position in the prospect’s mind. A really well-known name sits on the top rung of a sharply defined ladder.
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