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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More Al Ries Quotes
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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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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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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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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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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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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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