It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.
AL RIESCustomers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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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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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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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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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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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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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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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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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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