Al Ries Knihy

The authors of the bestselling Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, now compare marketing to war--where competition is the enemy and the customer is the ground to be won.

The first book to deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed public, Positioning describes a revolutionary approach to creating a "position" in a prospective customer's mind-one that reflects a company's own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors. Writing in their trademark witty, fast-paced style, advertising gurus Ries and Trout explain how to: Make and position an industry leader so that its name and message wheedles its way into the collective subconscious of your market-and stays there Position a follower so that it can occupy a niche not claimed by the leader Avoid letting a second product ride on the coattails of an established one. Positioning also shows you how to: Use leading ad agency techniques to capture the biggest market share and become a household name Build your strategy around your competition's weaknesses Reposition a strong competitor and create a weak spot Use your present position to its best advantage Choose the best name for your product Determine when-and why-less is more Analyze recent trends that affect your positioning. Ries and Trout provide many valuable case histories and penetrating analyses of some of the most phenomenal successes and failures in advertising history. Revised to reflect significant developments in the five years since its original publication, Positioning is required reading for anyone in business today.

There are laws of nature, so why shouldn't there be laws of marketing? As Al Ries and Jack Trout—the world-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors of Positioning —note, you can build an impressive airplane, but it will never leave the ground if you ignore the laws of physics, especially gravity. Why then, they ask, shouldn't there also be laws of marketing that must be followed to launch and maintain winning brands? In The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing , Ries and Trout offer a compendium of twenty-two innovative rules for understanding and succeeding in the international marketplace. From the Law of Leadership, to The Law of the Category, to The Law of the Mind, these valuable insights stand the test of time and present a clear path to successful products. Violate them at your own risk.

In this new book by the bestselling author of The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Al Ries shows why companies should focus on core products and get rid of extraneous, energy-wasting ventures. In industry after industry, it's the narrowly focused companies that are the big winners. With increased competition and the globalization of business, the future belongs to the company that can narrow its focus in order to dominate its industry. Using examples of companies from a variety of traditional and new industries - from airlines to video stores to fast food to software - Ries offers concrete, no-nonsense advice on how to own a category in the customer's mind, the way Volvo owns "safety," BMW owns "driving," and FedEx owns "overnight."

From the bestselling authors of Marketing Warfare comes another winner that turns conventional views of marketing upside-down, presenting a step-by-step approach to turn an effective tactic into an overall business strategy.

The only way to stand out in today's and tomorrow's - cluttered marketplace is to build your product or service into a brand. The renowned marketing guru and author of The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing demonstrates how to build any product or service into a world-class brand.

Lay down the rules for brand creation in a series of chapters showing how new ideas are developed, the importance of being first, inventing a new category, positioning opposite existing brands, positioning against an enemy. This author discusses the importance of public relations, protecting the brand, and when to give up on an existing brand.

Provides valuable ideas for marketers--all the while demonstrating why advertising lacks credibility, why the big-bang approach advocated by advertising people should be abandoned in favor of a slow buildup by PR, why advertising should be used only to maintain brands once they have been established through publicity

A field guide to business success that combines some of the hottest business concepts with the realities of the modern workplace to help professionals everywhere harness their personal potential and take charge of their careers.

Move business forward and drag Top Management along with you! Al Ries' best selling book, The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR, shook the advertising industry to the bone. The advertising world was outraged. When Ries argued that advertising just wasn't working any more, he had struck a nerve. Advertising was simply not changing with the times. Half a decade later, things have come full circle. PR is now finding its credibility in the intensive care unit. Stefan Engeseth gives the PR business the same treatment. The Fall of PR & the Rise of Advertising, with a foreword by Al Ries, analyses the enormous changes in the media landscape in PR, advertising and everything in between. Stefan Engeseth's books, Detective Marketing and ONE, have firmly established him as one of today's most refreshing business thinkers. In his latest book, The Fall of PR & the Rise of Advertising, he shows how advertising has redefined itself and re-emerged as a force to be reckoned with. Written in his trade mark, funny, original and provocative style, the book adds whole new dimensions to the business world.

The Internet is the first major new communication medium to be introduced since television and businesses ignore it at their peril. If the Internet is going to take its place alongside the other major media it will be because it exploits a powerful new attribute - interactivity. The Internet will make traditional forms of branding, such as conventional advertising, redundant. In order to succeed in branding on the net, the message to customers must be interactive. Al and Laura Ries examine this dilemma and explain how their other revolutionary principles can help your company to build a brand on the net.

Il mercato è pieno di insidie. E il marketing è una materia complessa, spesso ostica. In continua evoluzione, perché la società cambia rapidamente e imprevedibilmente. I comportamenti dei consumatori non sono più uniformi. I cicli economici sono instabili. I budget sempre più risicati. Ormai le aziende - dalle multinazionali alle piccole imprese, fino alle attività commerciali a conduzione familiare - non possono più permettersi di sbagliare. Ma è possibile evitare o almeno ridurre al minimo gli errori? Secondo Al Ries e Jack Trout sì, a patto di conoscere e mettere in pratica le "leggi fondamentali" descritte in questo libro. Non c'è nulla di miracoloso in tutto ciò. Il marketing ha delle leggi e queste sono immutabili perché sono ispirate a quei criteri di razionalità e buon senso che a lungo andare il mercato premia sempre. Per oltre trent'anni i due autori hanno studiato cosa funziona e cosa no. Attraverso l'analisi delle strategie di grandi aziende - IBM, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Sony, BMW, Apple, DHL, tra le altre - e del tasso di successo e fallimento dei nuovi prodotti, hanno elaborato 22 principi universalmente dalla legge della leadership a quella dell'esclusività, dalla legge dell'imprevedibilità a quella della montatura pubblicitaria, per non citarne che alcune.