Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind (20th Anniversary Edition)

by Al Ries, Jack Trout

Overview

“Ries and Trout taught me everything I know about branding, marketing, and product management. When I had the idea of creating a very large thematic community on the Web, I first thought of Positioning....”—David Bohnett, Chairman and Founder of GeoCities

A handsome edition of the original 1981 text, 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. This new edition features commentary from the authors that offers fresh insight into why “positioning” a product in a prospective customer’s mind is still the most important strategy in business, and includes numerous examples of campaigns that followed, or didn’t follow, Ries and Trout’s thinking.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071374613
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	11/20/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	246
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Al Ries is Chairman of Ries & Ries, Focusing Consultants. Jack Trout is Chairman of Trout & Partners. Al Ries and Jack Trout are undoubtedly the world's best-known marketing strategists.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What Positioning is All About. Chapter 2: The Assault on the Mind. Chapter 3: Getting Into the Mind. Chapter 4: Those Little Ladders in Your Head. Chapter 5: You Can't get There from Here. Chapter 6: Positioning of a Leader. Chapter 7: Positioning of a Follower. Chapter 8: Repositioning the Competition. Chapter 9: The Power of the Name. Chapter 10: The No-Name Trap. Chapter 11: The Free-Ride Trap. Chapter 12: The Line-Extension Trap. Chapter 13: When Line Extension Can Work. Chapter 14: Positioning a Company: Monsanto. Chapter 15: Positioning a Product: Milk Duds. Chapter 16: Positioning a Service: Mailgram. Chapter 17: Positioning a Long Island Bank. Chapter 18: Positioning the Catholic Church. Chapter 19: Positioning Yourself & Your Career. Chapter 20: Six Steps to Success. Chapter 21: Playing the Positioning Game.

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David Bohnett

Ries and Trout taught me everything I know about branding, marketing, and product management. When I had the idea of creating a very large thematic community on the Web, I first thought of Positioning....
—(David Bohnett, Chairman and Founder of GeoCities)