Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
AL RIESPositioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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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.
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Only brand names register in the mind… What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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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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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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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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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.
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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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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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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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