Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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Positioning is what you do to 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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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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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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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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It’s the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product.
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