Al Ries Books

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.

This business classic deals with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed public.

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.

This 20th Anniversary Edition makes available to business and marketing professionals---including tens of thousands of Ries and Trout groupies, worldwide---the work that forever changed the way marketing strategy is done. schovat popis

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. Think Nike, Starbuck's, Xerox, and Kleenex, and you're thinking brands in the biggest and most lucrative sense. In The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, marketing guru Al Ries, together with Laura Ries, has put together the authoritative work on brands and branding -- organized in a short, pithy book that can be read and digested in as brief a time as an airplane ride.

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.