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.
AL RIESAdvertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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The new product, if it’s going to be successful, is going to require a new name. New ladder, new name. It’s as simple as that.
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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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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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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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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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The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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What should a brand leader advertise?
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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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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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