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AL RIESMarketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
More Al Ries Quotes
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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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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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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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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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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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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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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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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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