The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
AL RIESThe new product, if it’s going to be successful, is going to require a new name. New ladder, new name. It’s as simple as that.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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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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Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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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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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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It’s the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product.
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