Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
AL RIESIt normally takes decades to build a brand… It’s the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth.
More Al Ries Quotes
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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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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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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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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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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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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand 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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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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