Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
AL RIESIt is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
More Al Ries Quotes
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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That is, you position the product in 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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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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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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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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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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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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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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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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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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