Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
AL RIESToday, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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That is, you position the product 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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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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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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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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War and marketing have many similarities.
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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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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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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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