You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
AL RIESThe best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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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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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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Successful brands get into the mind slowly. A blurb in a magazine. A mention in a newspaper. A comment from a friend. A display in a retail store.
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It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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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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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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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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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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War and marketing have many similarities.
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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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Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
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