Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
AL RIESIt takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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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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Each year we send more and receive less.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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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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It’s the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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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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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 next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself 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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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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