Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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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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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War and marketing have many similarities.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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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 takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.
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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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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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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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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 crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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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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