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 RIESA branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
More Al Ries Quotes
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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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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A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
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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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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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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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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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War and marketing have many similarities.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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