Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
AL RIESMarketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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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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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 essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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What should a brand leader advertise?
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