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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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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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 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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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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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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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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What should a brand leader advertise?
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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 need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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