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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More Al Ries Quotes
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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human 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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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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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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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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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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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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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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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