The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
AL RIESBranding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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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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A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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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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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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Your brand’s power lies in dominance.
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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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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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