22 Immutable Laws of Branding | 
 enlarge | Creators: Al Ries, Laura Ries
Publisher: HarperAudio
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 1115764
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Abridged
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0694520470
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.827
EAN: 9780694520473
ASIN: 0694520470
Publication Date: October 1, 1998
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Amazon.com Review
When you call a book The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, you're pretty much ruling out Oprah's Book Club as potential buyers. (Not that Oprah herself isn't a terrific brand.) This is an audiobook for a narrow demographic: entrepreneurs, top managers, and public-relations directors. Coauthor Al Ries comes off like the eccentric genius that most of these managers keep in a basement office, only listening to when necessary. When he says, "The power of a brand is inversely proportional to its scope," and hectors managers with the idea that "customers want brands that are narrow in scope," you know he's right (he backs himself up with dozens of examples), and you know it's the last thing powerful, expansion-minded businesspeople want to hear. Coauthor Laura Ries, his daughter and marketing-firm partner, also reads sections. (Running time: 1.5 hours, one cassette) --Lou Schuler
Product Description
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 bestselling 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.
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 Read BEFORE you start your new business. December 16, 2008
I've been involved in small business for decades. When friends, relatives, or business acquaintances tell me they are thinking about starting a new business, I always ask, "Have you read The 22 Immutable Laws?".
This book makes it crystal clear how, unless you don't mind swimming in a sea of "also-rans", you should think through how you want the world to classify your business -- because of the way humans process new information, we literally only get one chance to cement our product or service in the minds of the general public. The 22 Immutable Laws helps you get it right the first time.
A great little book on branding December 16, 2008
The Brighter Marketing Bible for Small Businesses
I bought this book quite a few years ago and lost my copy so bought it again a few weeks ago. It is a great book on the essentials of branding and the authors take a simple, yet really informative look at what makes up a brand in short chapters that you can read on their own. As a marketeer I recommend this book to my clients as you can learn a lot about branding in a very short space of time. It is suitable for everyone and even my husband who is an engineer and usually doesn't have time for marketing "fluff" as he calls it said he found it quite engaging and now believes himself a branding expert:-)
Solid, basic information on branding December 4, 2008
This book is not quite as revolutionary as "The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing" was, but it still should have a place on your bookshelf. You won't get a lot of nuts and bolts about building a solid and powerful brand, but you will get the big concepts and basic theories in easily digestible chunks.
I've got to grin now though. Earlier in the week I received a review copy of a new book due out in January, "Brand Immortality: How brands can live long and prosper" that talks about how brands can live indefinitely by effectively breaking free from dying categories and this flies in the face of Immutable Law #21, The Law of Mortality. Such conflict! I love it. (I'll keep you posted when I'm done with the new book.)
Overall, definitely a great book to have. You won't get much more solid information about basic brand building.
22 Immutable Laws of Branding Review November 9, 2008
Overall a great marketing/branding book for anyone wanting to get an overview of how it all works. They use classic, well-known examples that many professors cite constantly. If you have a background in marketing, it is a great refresher to remind you of the stuff you learned. As with all books, take from it what you can, and always challenge everything you read. But I read all of Al Reis' stuff, I think he is great.
Excellent! A must-have! October 28, 2008
Great book. Very consistent with their previous books and full of exemples that corroborate with the ideas.
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