What should a brand leader advertise?
AL RIESThe best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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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.
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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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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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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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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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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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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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IBM didn’t invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect’s mind.
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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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