The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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More Al Ries Quotes
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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What should a brand leader advertise?
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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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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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When a really new product comes along, it’s almost always a mistake to hang a well-known name on it.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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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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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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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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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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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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