A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
AL RIESThe most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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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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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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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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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new 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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