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.
AL RIESPositioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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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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Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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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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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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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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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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War and marketing have many similarities.
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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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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand 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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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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