Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
AL RIESA successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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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 have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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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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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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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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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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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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