Positioning
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; and, 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; and, 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.
Marketing Warfare
It rocked the marketing world in 1986, and now, more than 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.
MehrJack Trout – President, Trout & Partners, Ltd. / US
Jack Trout is the acclaimed author of many marketing classics published in many languages: Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, Marketing Warfare, (updated in the 20th Anniversary edition), The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Differentiate or Die, Big Brands. Big Trouble, A Genie’s Wisdom, and Trout on Strategy. Following the Second Edition of Differentiate or Die, he wrote In Search of the Obvious. The Antidote for Today’s Marketing Mess. His most recent book is Repositioning. Marketing in an era of competition, change and crisis.
He is president of Trout & Partners Ltd. an international marketing consultancy based in Connecticut. He has consulted for such companies as Hewlett-Packard, Southwest Airlines, Merck, Procter & Gamble, Papa John’s Pizza and many others. He has consulted with the State Department on how to better sell America and in 2006 helped the Democrats regain leadership of the U.S. Congress. He continues to advise the current administration on strategy.
Recognized as one of the world’s foremost marketing strategists, Trout is the originator of Positioning and other important concepts in marketing strategy. He has over 40 years of experience in advertising and marketing, and became a boardroom advisor to some of the world’s largest corporations and his worldwide consulting work gives him first-hand experience in a wide range of marketing scenarios. Jack Trout has gained an international reputation as a consultant, writer, speaker, and proponent of leading-edge marketing strategies.
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