An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
AL RIESIf you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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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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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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War and marketing have many similarities.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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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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A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light.
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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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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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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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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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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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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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Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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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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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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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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