Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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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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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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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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What should a brand leader advertise?
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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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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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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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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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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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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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