The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
AL RIESPositioning is not what you do to a product.
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What should a brand leader advertise?
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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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It’s the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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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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Each year we send more and receive less.
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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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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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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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Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
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