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.
AL RIESIt’s the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product.
More Al Ries Quotes
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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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What should a brand leader advertise?
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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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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The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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The new product, if it’s going to be successful, is going to require a new name. New ladder, new name. It’s as simple as that.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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