When a really new product comes along, it’s almost always a mistake to hang a well-known name on it.
AL RIESTo get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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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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Positioning is not what you do to a product.
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A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
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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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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
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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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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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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
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Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.
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It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
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