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 Aniversary Edition makes available to business and marketing profesionals--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 stil the most important strategy in busines, and includes numerous examples of campaigns that followed, or didn't follow, Ries and Trout's thinking.
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Should I buy the Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, 20th Anniversary Edition?
Packed With Knowledge!
Yes, this is the renowned marketing classic, revered for bringing to light the now ubiquitous strategy of positioning. If you're in business, you probably have at least a fuzzy notion of what the term means. If you're in marketing, you probably hear the word used at least five times a day. (Seriously, try counting.) But in terms of defining positioning and explaining how to use it as a foundation for your strategy, nobody has done a better job than Al Ries and Jack Trout in this original. Of course, the book does have a slightly historical flavor to it now, since the most contemporary business examples cited arrive from the 1970s and 1980s. While a lot has changed since then, a lot hasn't. You'll be surprised how similar this book sounds to the marketing missives of 2001, despite the fact that it was written before the arrival of the Internet, globalization and other buzzwords du jour. We [...] recommend that any executive charged with product development or general business strategy join those in marketing, advertising and sales by taking a few hours to read this book, and get back to the basics.
The most important marketing book you can read
I discovered this book in 1994 and it changed my business life. It opened my eyes to a facet of marketing that is too often overlooked, and it's the most important facet. Positioning is more than branding, it's the key to success. Luckily, most companies don't do proper positioning, which is why there's always room for new companies to start up, get it right, and be very successful.
If you don't read this book, you're chances at success are like everyone elses: 1 in 10. Read and learn positioning, and the odds are with you. Simple as that.
A Marketing Classic - A must read.
Positioning is a concept that has been coined by Ries and Trout in the late 1970s. Today (2000), Positioning has become one of the most commonly used marketing terms.
Like all other books by Trout and Ries, "Positioning" is straight-forward, common-sensical and easy to read. The book is full of real market example of positioning attempts that succeeded and failed.
This book belongs on the bookshelves of marketers just as much as the laws of trigonometry belong on the shelves of mathematicians
Much More Than Marketing
Positioning is the idea that shook Madison Avenue to its core in the 1970s. Ries and Trout published what the high priests of Madison Avenue deemed as heresy. These two upstarts dared to take the voodoo out of marketing - and marketing has not been the same since.
Over the years I have given away countless dozens of Positioning. I have found two types of recipients: (1) Those who view it as a book on marketing, and (2) those who truly "get it."
Positioning is not actually about marketing, though that is its platform. It is about how the human mind works. The principals taught in this book apply across all of our lives - from how we are viewed by our friends to why we affiliate with a particular political party or other social cause. Learning how Positioning works is learning about life.
It's short and it's very readable
I read this book out of curiosity. It turned out to be an excellent read.
Positioning is the battle that advertisers wage for a place in our mind. The ultimate goal it to create associations such as (Soda, Coke) (Coffee, Starbucks) (Fried Chicken, KFC) (Online bookstore, Amazon) etc. Companies that succeeded in creating this association thrive.
This book is brilliantly successful in explaining positioning and how the mind works (how we react to advertising.) Furthermore, it is packed with variety of examples of successful unsuccessful advertisement campaigns. The only weakness I found was that the book was not very convincing when it tried to explain how you can apply positioning (e.g. positioning your business, positioning your career.)
If you want to know why companies spend on advertising, how, when and why advertising works this is an excellent book. It's short and it's very readable.
