Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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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Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
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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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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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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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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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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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Each year we send more and receive less.
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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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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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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