Al Ries has 7 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 49 ratings. The most-rated is The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Summary
There are laws of nature, so why shouldn’t there be laws of marketing? As Al Ries and Jack Trout - the world-renowned marketing consultants and best-selling authors of Positioning - note, you can build an impressive airplane, but it will never leave the ground if you ignore the laws of physics, especially gravity. Why then, they ask, shouldn’t there also be laws of marketing that must be followed to launch and maintain winning brands? In The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Ries and Trout offer a compendium of 22 innovative rules for understanding and succeeding in the international marketplace. From the Law of Leadership, to The Law of the Category, to The Law of the Mind, these valuable insights stand the test of time and present a clear path to successful products. Violate them at your own risk.
©1993 Al Ries and Jack Trout (P)2014 HarperCollinsPublishers
The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
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This marketing classic has been expanded to include new commentary and a bonus book: The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding. Smart and accessible, The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding is the definitive text on branding, pairing anecdotes about some of the best brands in the world, like Rolex, Volvo, and Heineken, with the signature savvy of marketing gurus Al and Laura Ries. Combining The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding and The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding, this book proclaims that the only way to stand out in today’s marketplace is to build your product or service into a brand - and provides the step-by-step instructions you need to do so. The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding also tackles one of the most challenging marketing problems today: Branding on the Web. The Rieses divulge the controversial and counterintuitive strategies and secrets that both small and large companies have used to establish Internet brands. The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding is the essential primer on building a category-dominating, world-class brand.
©2002 Al Ries and Laura Ries (P)2014 HarperCollinsPublishers
Focus
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If your company has lost the focus it once had, here are clear solutions for moving your organization back to its key service and discarding everything else. Ries, coauthor of The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, gives clear examples from a variety of industries and demonstrates how crucial focus can be. Focus, he offers, is the key component to the successes of on-track companies such as Coca-Cola, Volvo, Sun Microsystems, and Little Caesars. He defines a new standard of corporate competitiveness for companies both big and small and passes on his extensive marketing experience and cutting-edge managerial advice. Get focused: your future depends on it.
(P) and ©1996 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., All Rights Reserved, Harper Audio, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing can mean the difference between success or failure for your product or company. Calling upon over 40 years of marketing experience, authors Al Ries and Jack Trout use vivid examples and fascinating anecdotes to explain the keys to today's tough, competitive marketplace. Learn how to avoid the danger of ego and arrogance, the need to understand trends, and many other crucial marketing lessons, as Ries and Trout point you solidly in the direction of success. With sparkling clarity and brilliant insight, The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing shows how to play by the rules and become a winner in your field.
(P) and ©1994 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., All Rights Reserved, Harper Audio, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers
The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
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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 best-selling 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 packaging. How to define your category...even if you're not first to market. How overbranding equals underwhelming. Why good old-fashioned publicity may be the missing link in the brand-building process. Why giving your brand the right name is perhaps more important than the brand itself. And 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.
(P) and ©1998 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., All Rights Reserved, Harper Audio, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding
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The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding is the definitive text for businesses eager to jump on the Internet expressway. In the book you'll learn why: The Internet can be a business or a medium for your brand, but not both. Interactivity is the single most important ingredient of any Internet site. The kiss of death for an Internet brand is a common name. Being second in a category is tantamount to being nowhere. You have to be fast. You have to be first. You have to be focused. Everyone is talking about convergence while just the opposite is happening. The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding will also give you tangible information on how to successfully build your company, product, service, or self into a hot and profitable brand on the Internet. Specifically you'll learn how to: Build a brand that will dominate a category over an extended period of time. Find a proper name (instead of a common one) for your Web site. Take your brand into the global marketplace. Avoid the biggest mistake in Internet branding: the belief that you can do everything. Take advantage of the transformations that will occur in all aspects of life, thanks to the power of the Internet. With characteristic counterculture observations and signature marketing savvy, Ries and Ries bring their expertise to branding on the Internet, the most challenging problem in the world of marketing today. No one who wants to turn a brand into a global phenomenon should ignore their sage advice.
(P) and ©2000 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., All Rights Reserved, Harper Audio, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Positioning
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The first book to deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed public, Positioning 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. Writing in their trademark witty, fast-paced style, advertising gurus Ries and Trout explain how to: Make and position an industry leader so that its name and message wheedles its way into the collective subconscious of your market - and stays there Position a follower so that it can occupy a niche not claimed by the leader Avoid letting a second product ride on the coattails of an established one Positioning also shows you how to: Use leading ad agency techniques to capture the biggest market share and become a household name Build your strategy around your competition's weaknesses Reposition a strong competitor and create a weak spot Use your present position to its best advantage Choose the best name for your product Determine when and why less is more Analyze recent trends that affect your positioning Ries and Trout provide many valuable case histories and penetrating analyses of some of the most phenomenal successes and failures in advertising history. Revised to reflect significant developments in the five years since its original publication, Positioning is required listening for anyone in business today.
©1987 Al Ries (P)2020 Al Ries