THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
AL RIESA brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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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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Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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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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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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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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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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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
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What should a brand leader advertise?
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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
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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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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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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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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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