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.
AL RIESIt 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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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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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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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
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The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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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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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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It normally takes decades to build a brand… It’s the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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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’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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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