Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
AL RIESIt’s the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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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 reason is obvious. A well-known name got well-known because it stood for something. It occupies a position in the prospect’s mind. A really well-known name sits on the top rung of a sharply defined ladder.
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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 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 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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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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