What should a brand leader advertise?
AL RIESAn attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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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 can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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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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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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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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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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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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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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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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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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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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