Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
AL RIESPositioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
More Al Ries Quotes
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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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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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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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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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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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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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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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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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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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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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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