A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
AL RIESIt 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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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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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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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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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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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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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.
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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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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light.
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