Al Ries

What's the secret to a company's continued growth and prosperity? Internationally known marketing expert Al Ries has the answer: focus. His commonsense approach to business management is founded on the premise that long-lasting success depends on focusing on core products and eschewing the temptation to diversify into unrelated enterprises.Using real-world examples, Ries shows that in industry after industry, it is the companies that resist diversification, and focus instead on owning a category in consumers' minds, that dominate their markets. He offers solid guidance on how to get focused and how to stay focused, laying out a workable blueprint for any company's evolution that will increase market share and shareholder value while ensuring future success.

Two marketing experts present a comprehensive guide to building a product into a recognized and respected brand and share their radical strategies for marketing effectively on the Internet, urging readers to mix the old with the new when making a marketing plan, in a volume that contains The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding and The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding. Reprint.

2002 kom Al Ries succébok "The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR", som skakade om marknadsföringsvärlden i grunden. Nu kommer en ny omskakande bok med ambitionen att utmana de rådande marknadsföringsbegreppen.Den 1 oktober släpps "The Fall of PR and the Rise of Advertising" av författaren och föreläsaren Stefan Engeseth. Stämmer bokens tes att marknadsföringsvärlden håller på att vändas upp- och-ner igen? Håller pendeln på att slå tillbaka igen - och att den tidigare så framgångsrika pr-branschen tappar mark till en allt starkare reklambransch? Var kommer sociala media in i bilden? Läs och avgör själv!

It rocked the marketing world in 1986, and now, nearly two decades later, the strategies set down in Marketing Warfare are still just as relevant. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the classic book that changed an industry, marketing mavens Al Ries and Jack Trout will reunite to annotate their book for another generation of marketers. The Anniversary Edition offers:• A fresh perspective on why waging marketing warfare is even more important today than 20 years ago• In-depth analyses of some of the biggest marketing successes and failures of the last two decades• Reproductions of successful (or not so successful) ads, accompanied by the authors’ comments on why they succeeded or failed• Valuable follow-up to the original edition. Where are these companies now? Who’s still a market leader?Marketing is war. To triumph over the competition, it’s not enough to target customers. Marketers must take aim at their competitors—and be prepared to defend their own turf. This indispensable guide gives smart fighters the best tactics—defensive, offensive, flanking, and guerrilla. Marketing Warfare is the book that wrote the new rules.

In their trademark witty style, the Rieses draw upon ten years of research in order to present lively case studies showing how successful brands are developed. Exploring some of the most powerful brands and products of all time, they provide penetrating analysis into the marketing methods that built and established them. Ries and Ries 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." They also discuss the importance of public relations, protecting the brand, and when to give up on an existing brand. They go on to show how one of the most effective techniques for creating new brands is to branch them off of already successful products or services. The authors contend that the principle applies in every category - beer, water, cola, insurance, software, computer hardware, retail, restaurants, clothing, etc. - and they examine the notion through their cases and examples. In contrast, they also look at the disasters created when products, services - or companies - are pushed together in misguided attempts to create new brands. Best example is the merger between AOL and Time-Warner.

Reveals a shift in marketing trends from advertising to publicity, citing the successes of such top brands as the Body Shop, Starbucks, and Wal-Mart while sharing strategies on establishing credibility and implementing a slow PR build. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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.

The first book to deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical public, Positioning describes the revolutionary approach to creating a “position” in a prospective customer’s mind that reflects a company’s own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors. Fully updated and revised.

Everyone knows that building your product or service into a bona fide brand is the only way to stand out in today's insanely crowded marketplace. The only question is how do you do it? This is the definitive text on branding, distilling complex theories and principles behind this key marketing term into in twenty-two easy-to-read vignettes including: The Law of Contraction A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus The Law of the Word A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer The Law of Fellowship In order to build the category, a brand should welcome other brands World-renowned marketing guru Al Ries and his daughter and business partner Laura Ries examine brand-blazing strategies from the world's best, including Coca-Cola, Xerox, BMW, Federal Express and Starbucks, to provide you with the expert insight you need to build a world-class brand.

You've got your hands on one of the greatest marketing manuals ever written--the classic that defines the strategies, plans, and campaigns of today's marketing battlefield. Marketing is war. To triumph over the competition, it's not enough to target customers. Marketers must take aim at their competitors - and be prepared to defend their own turf from would-be attackers at all times. This indispensable guide gives smart fighters the best tactics - defensive, offensive, flanking, and guerrilla. It's the book that wrote the new rules! Praise For "Marketing Warfare": "By far the most valuable and exiting business book to come along in years." - "Glamour". "Had Coca-Cola only listened to Trout and Ries, it would have known that to tamper with the Real Thing would be to court disaster." - "New York". "Chock-a-block with examples of successful and failed marketing campaigns...Makes for a very interesing and relevant read." - "USA Today".

Al Ries and Jack Trout, two of the world's most successful marketing strategists, call upon over 40 years of marketing experise to identify the definitive rules that govern the world of marketing. Combining a wide-ranging historical overview with a keen eye for the future, the authors bring to light 22 superlative tools and innovative techniques for the international marketplace. The authors examine marketing campaigns that have succeeded and others that have failed, why good ideas didn't live up to expectations, and offer their own ideas on what would have worked better. The real-life examples, commonsense suggestions and killer instincts contained are nothing less than rules by which companies will flourish or fail.