A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
AL RIESIf you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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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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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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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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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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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 next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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