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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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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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 takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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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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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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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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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.
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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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