An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
AL RIESAdvertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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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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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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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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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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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 best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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Only brand names register in the mind… What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.
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The reason is obvious. A well-known name got well-known because it stood for something. It occupies a position in the prospect’s mind. A really well-known name sits on the top rung of a sharply defined ladder.
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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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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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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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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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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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Successful brands get into the mind slowly. A blurb in a magazine. A mention in a newspaper. A comment from a friend. A display in a retail store.
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