Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
AL RIESA successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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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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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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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 because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.
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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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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 best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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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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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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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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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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