What should a brand leader advertise?
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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If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect’s mind. A word that nobody else owns.
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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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IBM didn’t invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect’s mind.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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When a really new product comes along, it’s almost always a mistake to hang a well-known name on it.
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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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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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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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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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It’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 should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
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The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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