The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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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 next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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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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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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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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