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.
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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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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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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War and marketing have many similarities.
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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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Only brand names register in the mind… What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.
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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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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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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute.
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