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Positioning

The Battle for Your Mind
Book • 1981
This book introduces the concept of positioning as a crucial strategy in marketing.

It explains how to effectively communicate with a skeptical and media-blitzed public by creating a position in the prospect's mind that reflects the company's strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors.

The authors provide valuable case histories and analyses of successful and failed advertising campaigns, emphasizing the importance of simplicity, consistency, and understanding how people think and evaluate information.

The book also discusses strategies such as making and positioning an industry leader, occupying a niche, and repositioning competitors to create a unique market position.

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April Dunford
as the original book on positioning, published in 1982.
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as the foundational book on positioning, offering insights into the core concepts.
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Dickie Bush
in relation to the concept of specificity and its impact on marketing and branding.
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Derek Halpern
as a resource on mission-driven branding.
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Rahul Vohra
when discussing a book that helped him understand market positioning.
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Rahul Vohra
for learning about product positioning.
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Sean Cannell
as a book that prophetically speaks to the current crowded social media landscape.
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Nicolas Cole
and Al Ries and Jack Trout when discussing the importance of specialization and differentiation in marketing and business.
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Sean Cannell
in the context of a classic marketing book about narrowing down one's position.
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Michael Tannenbaum
as an easy-to-read book about marketing.
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Sean Cannell
when discussing the importance of focusing a YouTube channel and owning a clear space in the consumer's mind.
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Nicolas Cole
as a book about positioning and category thinking.
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Craig Clemens
as authors whose audio books he listened to while learning about marketing.
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Mentioned as a book that explains what positioning is but doesn't explain how to do it.
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April Dunford
as a seminal book on positioning.
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Sean Cannell
when discussing strategic marketing and finding non-competitive markets.
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Jason Calacanis
when discussing a book he read that influenced his marketing strategy for Superhuman.
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