Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind (Unabridged) Audiobook, by Al Ries Play Audiobook Sample

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind Audiobook (Unabridged)

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Read By: Grover Gardner Publisher: McGraw-Hill Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 2.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: February 2006 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN:

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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 effect 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.

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  • "Classic text on what positioning is and why it matters. I didn't agree with every point (especially the ones re: brand extensions) but still consider this part of the brand strategist's canon. Read it! "

    — Fritz (4 out of 5 stars)

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    • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

      " Positioning, mengetahui posisi kita di pasar. "

      — zoe, 5/1/2011
    • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

      " The book is very thoughtful. But excessive reference to american products made me lost. "

      — Ramana, 1/11/2011
    • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

      " An interesting look at how companies brand and market their products and also an entertaining case study filled glance at the big guys screwing up. It’s a quick and recommended read. "

      — Dan, 1/3/2011
    • Overall Performance: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5

      " The most important book you read for the most powerful concept in marketing. ??? ???? ???? ?????? ? ???? ????? ???? ?????? "

      — Essam, 11/5/2010
    • Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5

      " Insightful for people with zero marketing background (like me). Dated in a perfectly charming way. "

      — Nate, 9/16/2010
    • Overall Performance: 2 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 5

      " Highly overrated. During several sections, it seemed like the authors' exercise in self-gratification. "

      — Maria, 4/5/2010
    • Overall Performance: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5

      " An advertising/marketing classic. All the principles still apply. "

      — Nellie, 2/9/2010
    • Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5

      " Highly recommend that any marketer reads this book. Positioning is an important part of the marketing mix. "

      — Miron, 1/9/2010
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      " Dated, but that was half the charm. Concepts aren't going away, they're just taking new form in a new marketplace. Great read, and well written! "

      — Michael, 12/17/2009
    • Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5

      " Outdated examples, simple language, but principles are fundamental to doing business. Outstanding. "

      — Bill, 11/17/2009

    About Al Ries

    Al Ries and his daughter and business partner Laura Ries are two of the world’s best-known marketing consultants, and their firm, Ries & Ries, works with many Fortune 500 companies. They are the authors of The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR (which was a Wall Street Journal and a BusinessWeek bestseller), and, most recently, The Origin of Brands. Al was recently named one of the Top 10 Business Gurus by the Marketing Executives Networking Group. Laura is a frequent television commentator and has appeared on the Fox News and Fox Business Channels, CNN, CNBC, PBS, ABC, CBS, and others.

    About Grover Gardner

    Grover Gardner (a.k.a. Tom Parker) is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.