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.
AL RIESIf you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
More Al Ries Quotes
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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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 have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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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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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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