Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
AL RIESBrand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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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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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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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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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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Positioning is what you do to 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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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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If you CAN’T then all the advertising, fancy packaging, sales promotion and public relations in the world won’t help you achieve your 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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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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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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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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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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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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