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.
AL RIESMarketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect’s mind. A word that nobody else owns.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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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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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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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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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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Each year we send more and receive less.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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