THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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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 crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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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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Each year we send more and receive less.
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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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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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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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The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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War and marketing have many similarities.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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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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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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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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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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What should a brand leader advertise?
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