Bøger af Al Ries

Identifies the definitive rules that govern the world of marketing. This book examines marketing campaigns that have succeeded and others that have failed, and why good ideas didn't live up to expectations. It contains real-life examples and commonsense suggestions.

Helps you deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed public. This book 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.

Branding. Dubbed by many the marketing buzzword of the late 90s, everyone knows that building your product or service into a bona fide brand is the only way to cut through the clutter in today's insanely crowded marketplace.The only question is, how do you do it?Learn the laws of branding in the branding bible: The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding. Brilliant, bold, and mercifully brief, this is the definitive work on branding, distilling the complex principles and theories espoused in other long-winded, high-priced professional marketing tomes into 22 quick and easy-to-listen-to vignettes. Pairing the brand-blazing strategies from the world's best -- like Coca-Cola, Xerox, and Starbucks -- with the world-renowned marketing savvy of bestselling author, Al Ries, and his daughter Laura Ries, The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding builds on the huge international success of The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing and provides the expert insight you seek on business's hottest topic in less time than an airplane ride.Find out:Why you will fail to create a brand through advertising, sales promotion, public relations or fancy packagingHow to define your category. . . even if you're not first to marketHow overbranding equals underwhelmingWhy good old-fashioned publicity may be the missing link in the brand-building processWhy giving your brand the right name is perhaps more important than the brand itselfAnd perhaps most important of all:How to own a word in the mind of the consumer.Smart and accessible, The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding provides the ammo you need to dominate your category and turn your product or service into a world-class brand.

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.

The authors have distilled their 40-plus years of marketing expertise to provide the key to today's competitive marketplace, showing you what makes some products inordinately successful while others fall by the wayside.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everyone knows that building your product or service into a bona fide brand is the only way to stand out in an insanely crowded marketplace. This book deals with branding, distilling complex theories and principles behind this key marketing term. It examines brand-blazing strategies from some of the world's best, including Coca-Cola, and Xerox.