A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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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What’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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Each year we send more and receive less.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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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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War and marketing have many similarities.
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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Successful 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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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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