It’s the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product.
AL RIESA successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
More Al Ries Quotes
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What should a brand leader advertise?
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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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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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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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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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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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 real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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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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