Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
AL RIESThe essence of positioning is sacrifice.
More Al Ries Quotes
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The reason is obvious. A well-known name got well-known because it stood for something. It occupies a position in the prospect’s mind. A really well-known name sits on the top rung of a sharply defined ladder.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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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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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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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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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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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.
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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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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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