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Al Ries , Jack Trout
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  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; New edition edition (1 Dec 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0070527261
  • ISBN-13: 978-0070527263
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 309,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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".

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You've got your hands on one of the greatest marketing manuals ever written­­the 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 competitors­­and be prepared to defend their own turf from would-be attackers at all times. This indispensable guide gives smart fighters the best tactics­­defensive, 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


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Format:Paperback
This is the first marketing book for some time to grip me like a Tom Clancy novel (and I read LOTS of marketing books). It has an easy style, provokes genuine consideration of the truth or otherwise of its message, and is unusually cheap!

The case studies are in need of update as many of them have moved on since publication and this gives a great opportunity for the authors to explain how their theories worked (or didn't). I would also have liked to see a summary of the rules of marketing warfare in an easy referenced table, rather than have to wade back through the text.

Overall, I recommend you read it!

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Nice to see that the cover has been reworked. Still prefere the old one. It captures the essence on the book

The book perhaps deals a little too much with companies and brands that have been arround for many years. I think an analysis of emerging industries would proeve to be more valuble in the fast changing consumer markets. It is easier to review the past and submitt an analysis, do not get me wrong the value of this is emense, but I would like to these good marketing minds put their intellectual capacity to markets that are on the cutting edge both interms of technology but aslo interms of comsumer dynamics.

All in all a must read for Senior Marekting Managers and Director types who continue to not pay attention to the basics as outlined in the book. I work for South Afrca's biggest brewing company and I can vividly relate to some of the follies outlined in the book.

Great Book

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I'm an engineer by training. The authors conveyed their marketing concepts in easy-to-understand terms thru analogy with warfare. I tried to apply their framework to Intel vs. AMD and Amazon.com vs. E-bay. I believe I have acquired some understanding of why the marketing folks at Intel and Amazon.com are doing what they are doing. Enough knowledge to have made me dangerous :-) Would have been nice if authors had included a few chapters on cases where the analogy of marketing with warfare breaks down.
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Based on a false mindset
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A must read
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Excellent marketing book
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Great Book and very true and useful analogies to the battlefield.
Published on 3 Aug 1999
The best book for marketing guys
I have read all the books of Al Ries & Jack Trout and this must qualifyamong his best.It's a must see for all the marketing guys irrespective of the industry he operates on.
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This is the best business book you will ever read.
I can't even begin to tell you how this book has influenced my own decisions and those of anyone who has read it. Read more
Published on 27 April 1999
This is hands-down the best marketing book I've ever read!
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Witty, factual, cutting.
Even if you only read this to better plan your career, it is worth its weight in gold. From reading the anecdotes, it appears to have been written in the mid-80s, even though the... Read more
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