Positioning: The Battle For Your Mind, 20th Anniversary Edition

"...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

"One of the most important communication books I've ever read. I recommend it highly!" --Spencer Johnson, MD, co-author of The One Minute Manager

It shook up the world of marketing with all the force of a 20-megaton bomb, and now, two decades later, Positioning is still as fresh and, perhaps, even more relevant, for advertisers in the New Economy. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the classic book that changed an industry, McGraw-Hill has reunited mavens of marketing Al Ries and Jack Trout to make available to another generation of advertisers the book that forever changed the way advertising is done.

The 20th Anniversary Edition features commentary from the authors that offers fresh insight into why "positioning" a product in a prospective customer's mind is still the most important strategy in business. Ries and Trout look back over two decades of campaigns, offering penetrating analyses of some of the most phenomenal successes and unbelievable failures in advertising history.

The first book to deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, over-communicated public, Positioning describes a revolutionary approach to creating a "position" in a prospective customer's mind that reflects a company's own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors. Writing in their trademark witty, fast-paced style, Ries and Trout explain how to position an industry leader so that it gets into people's minds and stays there, how to position a follower so that it can occupy a space not claimed by the leader, and how to avoid letting a second product ride on the coattails of an established one.

About The Author
Al Ries is Chairman of Ries & Ries, Focusing Consultants.

Jack Trout is Chairman of Trout & Partners. Al Ries and Jack Trout are undoubtedly the world's best-known marketing strategists.

Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: What Positioning is All About.
• Chapter 2: The Assault on the Mind.
• Chapter 3: Getting Into the Mind.
• Chapter 4: Those Little Ladders in Your Head.
• Chapter 5: You Can't get There from Here.
• Chapter 6: Positioning of a Leader.
• Chapter 7: Positioning of a Follower.
• Chapter 8: Repositioning the Competition.
• Chapter 9: The Power of the Name.
• Chapter 10: The No-Name Trap.
• Chapter 11: The Free-Ride Trap.
• Chapter 12: The Line-Extension Trap.
• Chapter 13: When Line Extension Can Work.
• Chapter 14: Positioning a Company: Monsanto.
• Chapter 15: Positioning a Country: Belgium.
• Chapter 16: Positioning a Product: Milk Duds.
• Chapter 17: Positioning a Service: Mailgram.
• Chapter 18: Positioning a Long Island Bank.
• Chapter 19: Positioning the Catholic Church.
• Chapter 20: Positioning Yourself & Your Career.
• Chapter 21: Six Steps to Success.
• Chapter 22: Playing the Positioning Game.
• Index