Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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More Al Ries Quotes
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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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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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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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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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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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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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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