Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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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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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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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Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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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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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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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 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 laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light.
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