If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
AL RIESIt normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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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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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 most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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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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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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War and marketing have many similarities.
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