Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
AL RIESCustomers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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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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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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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 is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.
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Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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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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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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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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