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 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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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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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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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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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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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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