That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
AL RIESThe next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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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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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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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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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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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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What’s your brand? If you can’t answer that question about your own brand in two or three words, your brand’s in trouble.
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War and marketing have many similarities.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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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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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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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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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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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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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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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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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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