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AL RIESYou must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
More Al Ries Quotes
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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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.
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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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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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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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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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