Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
AL RIESWhat’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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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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It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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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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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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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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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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When a really new product comes along, it’s almost always a mistake to hang a well-known name on it.
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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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