Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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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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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect’s mind. A word that nobody else owns.
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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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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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War and marketing have many similarities.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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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 next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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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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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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