Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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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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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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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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The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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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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