That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
AL RIESIt’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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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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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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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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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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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’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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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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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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