Laura Ries

Al Ries

Identifies keys to developing a successful brand name, including focus, publicity, advertising, quality, extensions, color, logo, consistency, and change

How to Build a Product Or Service Into a World-class Brand

The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding

What Charles Darwin did for biology, Al and Laura Ries do for branding. In their exciting new book, The Origin of Brands, the Rieses take Darwin's revolutionary idea of evolution and apply it to the branding process. What results is a new and strikingly effective strategy for creating innovative products, building a successful brand, and, in turn, achieving business success. Here, the Rieses explain how changing conditions in the marketplace create endless opportunities to build new brands and accumulate riches. But these opportunities cannot be found where most people and most companies look. That is, in the convergence of existing categories like television and the computer, the cellphone and the Internet. Instead, opportunity lies in the opposite direction—in divergence. By following Darwin's brilliant deduction that new species arise from divergence of an existing species, the Rieses outline an effective strategy for creating and taking to market an effective brand. In The Origin of Brands, you will learn how to: Divide and conquer Exploit divergence Use the theories of survival of the firstest and survival of the secondest Harness the power of pruning Using insightful studies of failed convergence products and engaging success stories of products that have achieved worldwide success through divergence, the Rieses have written the definitive book on branding. The Origin of Brands will show you in depth how to build a great brand and will lead you to success in the high-stakes world of branding.

How Product Evolution Creates Endless Possibilities for New Brands

The Origin of Brands

Paperback version of Visual Hammer by Laura Ries.

Nail Your Brand Into the Mind with the Emotional Power of a Visual

Visual Hammer

Bestselling authors and world-renowned marketing strategists Al and Laura Ries usher in the new era of public relations. Today's major brands are born with publicity, not advertising. A closer look at the history of the most successful modern brands shows this to be true. In fact, an astonishing number of brands, including Palm, Starbucks, the Body Shop, Wal-Mart, Red Bull and Zara have been built with virtually no advertising. Using in-depth case histories of successful PR campaigns coupled with those of unsuccessful advertising campaigns, The Fall of Advertising provides valuable ideas for marketers -- all the while demonstrating why advertising lacks credibility, the crucial ingredient in brand building, and how only PR can supply that credibility; the big bang approach advocated by advertising people should be abandoned in favor of a slow build-up by PR; advertising should only be used to maintain brands once they have been established through publicity. Bold and accessible, The Fall of Advertising is bound to turn the world of marketing upside down.

The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR

Marka Yaratmanin 22 Kurali

De acordo com a teoria revolucionária de Charles Darwin, batizada de ?a grande árvore da vida?, novas espécies surgem da divergência das já existentes. Neste livro, Al e Laura Ries aplicam a idéia revolucionária de Darwin sobre evolução aos processos de branding e apontam: as oportunidades de mercado estão na divergência.

A Origem das Marcas

Two marketing experts share their radical strategies for marketing effectively on the Internet, urging readers to mix the old with the new when making a marketing plan, and using anecdotes from successful web companies to illuminate their ideas.

The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding

Why are most slogans and taglines ineffective? Because they're just words and a mind cannot understand words. A mind can only understand sounds. Why do most Americans remember the battlecry of the French Revolution (Libert , galit , fraternit ) when they cannot remember the battlecry of the American Revolution? Because the sounds of the words "Libert , galit , fraternit " rhyme and that's one of the powerful techniques for creating a memorable slogan. In addition to "rhyme," there are four other techniques outlined in my new book, Battlecry. (1) Rhyme: "Roto-Rooter, that's the name. And away go troubles down the drain." (2) Alliteration: "M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hands." (3) Repetition: "The few. The proud. The Marines." (4) Reversals: "Two great tastes that taste great together. Reese's peanut butter cups." (5) Double-entendre: "A diamond is forever." You might think companies and their ad agencies would be wise to these techniques. But few slogans actually use any of these memory-building tactics. In a recent survey of 266 advertising slogans, only 19 used any one of them. Battlecry is a companion book to my previous book, Visual Hammer, and should be read together. Creating a slogan is only half the battle. The other half of the battle is a visual that will help drive your slogan into prospects' minds. The contour bottle helps drive "The real thing" into the minds of cola drinkers. The duck helps drive the Aflac name into prospects' minds. The straw-in-the-orange helps drive "Not from concentrate" into the minds of Tropicana buyers. Even "The ultimate driving machine" would not have been effective, in my opinion, without a visual hammer. And what was BMW's visual hammer? It was the television commercials showing BMWs being driven over winding road by happy owners. Over the years, there have been many advertising campaigns showing beautiful automobiles being driven over lush, winding roads. The hammers are terrific, but the nails are missing. The trick is to find the right combination of a visual hammer and a verbal nail. And my two books, Battlecry and Visual Hammer, can help you do exactly that.

Winning the Battle for the Mind with a Slogan That Kills.

Battlecry

Renowned business gurus Al and Laura Ries give a blow-by-blow account of the battle between management and marketing—and argue that the solution lies not in what we think but in how we think There's a reason why the marketing programs of the auto industry, the airline industry, and many other industries are not only ineffective, but bogged down by chaos and confusion. Management minds are not on the same wavelength as marketing minds. What makes a good chief executive? A person who is highly verbal, logical, and analytical. Typical characteristics of a left brainer. What makes a good marketing executive? A person who is highly visual, intuitive, and holistic. Typical characteristics of a right brainer. These different mind-sets often result in conflicting approaches to branding, and the Ries' thought-provoking observations—culled from years on the front lines—support this conclusion, including: Management deals in reality. Marketing deals in perception. Management demands better products. Marketing demands different products. Management deals in verbal abstractions. Marketing deals in visual hammers. Using some of the world's most famous brands and products to illustrate their argument, the authors convincingly show why some brands succeed (Nokia, Nintendo, and Red Bull) while others decline (Saturn, Sony, and Motorola). In doing so, they sound a clarion call: to survive in today's media-saturated society, managers must understand how to think like marketers—and vice versa. Featuring the engaging, no-holds-barred writing that readers have come to expect from Al and Laura Ries, War in the Boardroom offers a fresh look at a perennial problem and provides a game plan for companies that want to break through the deadlock and start reaping the rewards.

Why Left-Brain Management and Right-Brain Marketing Don't See Eye-to-Eye--and What to Do About It

War in the Boardroom

"The next breakthrough in Positioning thinking. Laura Ries simplifies, amplifies, and challenges us to get serious about what we stand for." —Seth Godin, Author, This is Marketing Build a brand worth fighting for using the power of positioning and focus Consumers are overwhelmed by choices and inundated with marketing messages. And despite an obsession with positioning amongst the world’s most well-known companies, too many brands retain an outdated focus on “being better” and using “line-extensions” rather than on what really matters in the mind—being different than your strategic enemy. In The Strategic Enemy: How to Build and Position a Brand Worth Fighting For, bestselling author and brand strategist Laura Ries delivers an exciting and powerful new discussion of how some of the world’s most energetic brands make an impact in the market. She explains the key to effective brand positioning—identifying an “enemy”—and shows you how to use an indisputable difference to drive your brand into the minds of consumers. To get people to fight for something, it will require them to reject something else. Ries draws on her extensive experience in marketing and branding to show you how to develop a “visual hammer:” a crystal-clear image that distinguishes your brand from everyone else’s. You’ll also find: Illustrative case studies of real-world companies—like Liquid Death, the popular canned water brand, Chick-fila-A's “Eat More Chikin” campaign, Oatly’s “Wow no Cow,” slogan, and Nvidia, the leader in AI computing—that demonstrate how to effectively position using focus and a distinctive enemy (plastic bottles, beef, and dairy milk, respectively) Strategies to adapt to a constantly changing marketplace where trends, products, and customer needs shift every day How to keep your company from expanding or extending to such an extent that true differentiation is impossible Perfect for branding and strategy teams, managers, executives, and other business leaders, The Strategic Enemy is also a must-read for marketing professionals, sales leaders, and anyone else with an interest in driving revenue at their company.

How to Build and Position a Brand Worth Fighting For

The Strategic Enemy

PR ist die bessere Werbung!

Using examples and anecdotes from their own consulting business, Al and Laura Ries demonstrate how Internet branding really works, who can benefit most from it, and where traditional marketing can still fit in.

The only way to stand out in today's and tomorrow's - cluttered marketplace is to build your product or service into a brand. The renowned marketing guru and author of The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing demonstrates how to build any product or service into a world-class brand.

Bestselling marketing guru Al Ries and his daughter and partner Laura divulge the revolutionary strategies needed to successfully build your company, product or service into a profitable brand using the internet. The Internet is the first major new communication medium to be introduced since television and businesses ignore it at their peril. If the Internet is going to take its place alongside the other major media it will be because it exploits a powerful new attribute - interactivity. The Internet will make traditional forms of branding, such as conventional advertising, redundant. In order to succeed in branding on the net, the message to customers must be interactive. Al and Laura Ries examine this dilemma and explain how their other revolutionary principles can help your company to build a brand on the net. Like the 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing and the 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, this will be a smart snappy read full of practical advice and marketing savvy. The authors will use anecdotes from their own consulting business with top companies to illustrate how Internet branding really works.

Laura Ries

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