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.
AL RIESMarketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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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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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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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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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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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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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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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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It’s the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product.
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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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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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