A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
AL RIESSuccessful 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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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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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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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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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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Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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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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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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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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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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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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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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