Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
AL RIESTHE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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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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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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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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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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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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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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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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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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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What should a brand leader advertise?
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