Al Ries, Jack Trout. Al Ries is a marketing professional and author. He is the co-founder and chairman consulting firm Ries & Ries with his partner and daughter, Laura Ries. Jack Trout is an owner of Trout & Partners, a consulting firm. He is one of the founders and pioneers of positioning theory, and also marketing warfare theory. The best quotations and sayings about business with comments.
All that exists in the world of marketing are perceptions in the minds of the customer or prospect. The perception is the reality. Everything else is an illusion.
The single most wasteful thing you can do in marketing is try to change a mind.
If you can't be first in a category, set up a new category you can be first in.
Marketing is a battle of perseptions, non products.
It's much easier to get into the mind first than to try to convince someone you have a better product than the one that did get there first.
It's better to be first than it is to be better.
When a company makes a mistake today, footprints quickly show up on its back as competition runs off with its business. To get the business back, the company has to wait for others to make mistakes and then figure out how to exploit the situation.