When a really new product comes along, it’s almost always a mistake to hang a well-known name on it.
AL RIESIt’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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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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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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The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
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The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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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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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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