Positioning is not what you do to a product.
AL RIESPositioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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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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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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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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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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The reason is obvious. A well-known name got well-known because it stood for something. It occupies a position in the prospect’s mind. A really well-known name sits on the top rung of a sharply defined ladder.
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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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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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