Positioning is not what you do to a product.
AL RIESThe essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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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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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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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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Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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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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Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
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The new product, if it’s going to be successful, is going to require a new name. New ladder, new name. It’s as simple as that.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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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 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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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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