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.
AL RIESIt’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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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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The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
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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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It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.
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Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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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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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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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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