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.
AL RIESThe most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects 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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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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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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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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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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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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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