Positioning is not what you do to a product.
AL RIESIt’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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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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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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What should a brand leader advertise?
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IBM didn’t invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect’s mind.
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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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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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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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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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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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