It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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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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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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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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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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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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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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