One of the best books written for understanding marketing positioning and strategy today. One of the easiest and most enjoyable reads for executives, business strategists, and others who don't spend their whole working day in marketing. Fast, concise, well illustrated with images and words. Clients pay me $5,000 to $24,000 per engagement to figure out for their businesses and explain to them what Ries and Trout teach here. Don't tell them 'Marketing Warfare' can still be found! :)
Two caveats: First, for the serious student of marketing this work can seem too simplistic or too much the overview. Take it for what it was meant to be, not for the 240 page tome that might be assigned in a graduate marketing class.
Second, the book was written in the mid 80's, using industry and company examples familiar to Americans then. Some are just as familiar today; others require thinking back to that time and place to get the full value. The examples are so effective that it is worth reading a little background if you don't remember (or didn't live through) them. Moreover, this is an American perspective, from a time when many of the products and companies analysed commanded their first world markets. It is no less relevant to European or Asian readers, but may be less familiar. It likely has less relevance to markets that are not largely free, competitive or uncontrolled.uncontrolled.
A 20th anniversary edition was released last decade, and really doesn't seem to update the work to much advantage. The opportunity existed to use 21st century contests and discuss the same truths with currently familiar marketing campaigns. Though a few sidebars with more recent situations were added (Carly Fiorina as CEO of HP, Jack Welsh's book 'Winning', etc.), the core text's examples remain the same.
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