Positioning is not what you do to a product.
AL RIESBranding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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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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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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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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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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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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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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What should a brand leader advertise?
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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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It normally takes decades to build a brand… It’s the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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