Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
AL RIESEven if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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The 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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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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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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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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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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