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.
AL RIESTo get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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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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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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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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Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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War and marketing have many similarities.
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