Marketing Expert Quotes & Sayings

Your brand exists to differentiate. "Same crap, different day" won't do it. A day that goes by without breaking some sacred branding rule is a day a brand has lost to rise above the status quo. By breaking those rules with insight, intelligent and innovation, your brand can get heard in a world that's simply too busy to listen. — David Brier

Show up, shine and do the damn thing! — Catrice M. Jackson

Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo. — David Brier

History is filled with inferior brands outselling superior ones thanks to better branding. Only superior branding has the power to overcome and reverse this (and superior products and services deserve superior branding). — David Brier

Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions. — David Brier

Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding. — David Brier

If your brand isn't visible, it won't be viable. — Catrice M. Jackson

We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked. — David Brier

Look at every 'revolutionary' brand or category killer, it had an app, or a feature, or a functionality, or a user experience nobody else at that point could offer. I refer to this as 'the Killer App' principle. — David Brier

Be sensational, be surprising, and be remarkable. Activate your star power! — Catrice M. Jackson

Customers have a first moment when they discover your brand. If you were to look at it today with a fresh pair of eyes, in fact only through a pair of fresh customer eyes and witness your brand for the very first time, what would you see? What impression would make? Or fail to make? Would your brand blend in? Would it stand out? Would it be memorable, or the leading cause of amnesia amongst shoppers everywhere? Facing the truth of this and fixing it as needed will determine whether your brand thrives or merely stumbles along. — David Brier

In today's saturated marketplace, you'll go nowhere selling a "bunch of features." We are in the business of disrupting the market with brands that matter. — Laura Busche

Step into the marketplace with some sizzle, spice, spunk and shazam! — Catrice M. Jackson

The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm. — Gary Weiss

So it comes down to scarcity, one product or service having qualities you won't find everywhere or ideally, anywhere. It's the job of every brand to seek that out as their standard, their stamp. — David Brier

A brand is a person. — Richie Norton

Having a me-too brand is a death sentence. — David Brier

Build a brand or a brand will build you. — Richie Norton

Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer's mind and going for it before someone else takes it. — Laura Busche

The opposite of value is a commodity item with little or no perceived value - which means people are not seeking it out and when they do, it's merely one of the many choices (so very likely the cheapest offering will get the sale). — David Brier

A business without marketing is dead. — Paul Cookson

Eat, sleep & Breathe your business to ensure it's success — Paul Cookson

Who are we, and how do we relate this idea in a way that's meaningful to our customers and the values they hold dear?

In other words, one must define something meaningful. To do that, one must identify to whom this must be meaningful. — David Brier

You need to position yourself to your referral sources and your current clients as providing exceptional value and experiences in everything you do — Timothy M. Houston

Why do some brands grow explosively when others (that could be thriving) die a lonely and forgettable death? — David Brier

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do ... — George Lois

My phone isn't "smart" because of its features. I make it smart by maximizing the phone's feature-set toward better personal efficiency. — Larry Bailin

Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing. — David Brier

Don't be a one hit wonder. Daringly disrupt the marketplace again and again. — Catrice M. Jackson

One can always sell something by offering the lowest price. But this does not create loyalty to your brand. Never did and never will. It only creates "loyalty" to that price point. As soon as your guest or visitor is offered a better price, he or she will jump ship, leaving you like a scorned lover in the middle of the night. — David Brier

You can't stay in a Blackberry mindset and become an Apple! — John Di Lemme

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others. — Simon S. Tam

Brands are either built on reruns or coming attractions. The future has no road map while the past does. Creating a brand that blazes new trails can sometimes be bumpy but will also allow you to be the first to discover something new, something meaningful and something that makes others ask, "Why didn't we think of that?" Be very scared of "old tricks" and build a spirit of innovation. It's the "old tricks" that have the highest risk, not doing something bold. — David Brier

A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion. — David Brier

An advertising campaign should be timely.

A branding campaign should be timeless. — Steven Howard

To create growth in business, you must control your branding, marketing, and lead generation. — Edwin Dearborn

There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months. — David Brier

Don't be an expert, be a filter. — Penny C. Sansevieri

When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you're not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn't be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea. — David Brier

When people can't handle your light, it's because they haven't yet discovered their own, and you are a reminder of that. Don't take it personal, and don't shrink or hide. Either they will choose to shine or grab a pair of shades. — Catrice M. Jackson

Why is it there's no aisle in a grocery or department in a store or menu on a website for "average stuff" or "beige products"? FACT: People never got passionate about mediocre and average. While consumers and clients can find "best deals" and "natural foods" and "artisan goods," one doesn't find an aisle or a website menu tab offering "average stuff" without excelling in something (which might explain that while vanilla is necessary for the ice cream sundae, it's the hot fudge we all crave and talk about). — David Brier

A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message. — Richie Norton

Similarly, though the United States is one of the world's richest economies by per capita income, it ranks only around seventeenth in reported life satisfaction. It is superseded not only by the likely candidates of Finland, Norway, and Sweden, which all rank above the United States but also by less likely candidates such as Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. Indeed, one might surmise that it is health and longevity rather than income that give the biggest boost to reported life satisfaction. Since good health and longevity can be achieved at per capita income levels well below those of the United States, so too can life satisfaction. One marketing expert put it this way, with only slight exaggeration: Basic Survival goods are cheap, whereas narcissistic self-stimulation and social-display products are expensive. Living doesn't cost much, but showing off does. — Jeffrey D. Sachs

Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag. — David Brier

If you don't build a personal brand, someone else will brand you with the wrong label. — Richie Norton

It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace. — David Brier

The biggest mistake brands make are trying to "sell their stuff" rather than clarifying what people are actually buying. — David Brier