Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
AL RIESThe most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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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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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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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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War and marketing have many similarities.
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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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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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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.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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