Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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 should a brand leader advertise?
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect’s mind. A word that nobody else owns.
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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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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 new product, if it’s going to be successful, is going to require a new name. New ladder, new name. It’s as simple as that.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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That is, you position the product in 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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The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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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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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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