THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
AL RIESTHE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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The reason is obvious. A well-known name got well-known because it stood for something. It occupies a position in the prospect’s mind. A really well-known name sits on the top rung of a sharply defined ladder.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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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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The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
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The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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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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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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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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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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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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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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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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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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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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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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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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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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