The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
AL RIESChanging the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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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 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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A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
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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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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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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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