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.
AL RIESIt is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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What should a brand leader advertise?
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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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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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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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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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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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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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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