The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
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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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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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War and marketing have many similarities.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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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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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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What should a brand leader advertise?
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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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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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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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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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