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.
AL RIESStrategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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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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The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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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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To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.
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The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
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Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
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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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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
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