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.
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Al Ries and Jack Trout, two of the world's most successful marketing strategists, call upon over forty years of marketing expertise to identify the definitive roles 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. With irreverent but honest insights, and often flying the face of conventional, but not always successful wisdom, they give us:
THE LAW OF CANDOUR
be honest with your audience, point out the negatives, and improve your credibility
THE LAW OF LINE EXTENSION
don't try to be all things to all people; companies that over-extend themselves consistently lose market share
THE LAW OF THE LADDER
the battle isn't lost if you fail to be No. 1
The real-life examples, common-sense suggestions and killer instincts contained in 'The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing' are nothing less than the rules by which companies will flourish or fail.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.About the Author
Jack Trout runs a marketing consulting firm in Greenwich, Connecticut with Al Ries. They are the authors of the bestsellers Positioning, Marketing Warfare, Bottom-Up Marketing and Focus.
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By C. C. Brown
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Even Einstein said "if you can't explain it simply, then you don't understand it". This book is the simplest explaination of what really matters in marketing and while you can read the most complex detailed marketing texts in the world, if you read this book in 30minutes you know most of what you need to know. If you are in marketing, this book is invaluable - if you ever need to present to a non-marketing audience, your presentation is already written for you, or better still give copies of it to your team or your colleagues. If you are not in marketing, read this book for invaluable and straight to the point insight.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I found this book very interesting and really easy to read, but the examples need updating. Things have changed a bit in the last 11 years (this book was written in 1993) and reading things like "Microsoft is the leader in personal computer operating systems, but it trails the leaders in each of the following major categories: spreadsheets (Lotus), word processing (WordPerfect) and business graphics (Harvard graphics)" can't fail to put a smile on your face. I think that the laws still hold true though. One more thing: the book has been written by Americans for Americans and certain brands mentioned in it are not well known in Europe, if at all. It's still worth reading, in my opinion.
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And I have read a lot!
If you only ever read one marketing book, make it this one. This book is excellent in the way it details the foundations of marketing in one easy to read and fun experience.
My only criticism is that the authors might have put the case forward for when "line extension", an obvious pet hate of the authors, can and does work.
I have a copy of this book at home and at work and always think of the 22 laws when looking at new products or business ideas.
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