If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
AL RIESThe Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
More Al Ries Quotes
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Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.
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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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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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What should a brand leader advertise?
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It’s better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.
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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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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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The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
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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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War and marketing have many similarities.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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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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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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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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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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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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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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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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Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company’s ultimate objective.
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The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
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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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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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