An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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More Al Ries Quotes
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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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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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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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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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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If 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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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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When a really new product comes along, it’s almost always a mistake to hang a well-known name on it.
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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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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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