The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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More Al Ries Quotes
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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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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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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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That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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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 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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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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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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