The essence of positioning is sacrifice.
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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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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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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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War and marketing have many similarities.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.
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What’s your brand? If you can’t answer that question about your own brand in two or three words, your brand’s in trouble.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.
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Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society.
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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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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
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