Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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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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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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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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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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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.
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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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