It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.
AL RIESYour brand’s power lies in dominance.
More Al Ries Quotes
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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 best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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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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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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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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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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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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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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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.
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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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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The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
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War and marketing have many similarities.
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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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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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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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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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