Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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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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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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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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Successful brands get into the mind slowly. A blurb in a magazine. A mention in a newspaper. A comment from a friend. A display in a retail store.
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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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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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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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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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