What should a brand leader advertise?
AL RIESIf 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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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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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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The new product, if it’s going to be successful, is going to require a new name. New ladder, new name. It’s as simple as that.
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It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.
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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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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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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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War and marketing have many similarities.
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The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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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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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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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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