The must-read summary of Al Ries and Laura Ries' book: "The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR". This complete summary of the ideas from Al Ries and Laura Ries' book: "The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR" shows that none of the recent business success stories have spent much money on advertising. Instead, companies such as Starbucks and PlayStation have invested in public relations. In their book, the authors explain the key differences between advertising and PR and why the latter is the only method that reaches the people who really matter. This summary demonstrates why you should start focusing on PR and what benefits it could bring for your company. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand key concepts • Expand your knowledge To learn more, read "The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR" and discover why so many companies are choosing to focus on PR and why you should too.

The must-read summary of Al Ries and Laura Ries' book: "The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR". This complete summary of the ideas from Al Ries and Laura Ries' book: "The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR" shows that none of the recent business success stories have spent much money on advertising. Instead, companies such as Starbucks and PlayStation have invested in public relations. In their book, the authors explain the key differences between advertising and PR and why the latter is the only method that reaches the people who really matter. This summary demonstrates why you should start focusing on PR and what benefits it could bring for your company. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand key concepts • Expand your knowledge To learn more, read "The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR" and discover why so many companies are choosing to focus on PR and why you should too.

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.

Move business forward and drag Top Management along with you! Al Ries' best selling book, The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR, shook the advertising industry to the bone. The advertising world was outraged. When Ries argued that advertising just wasn't working any more, he had struck a nerve. Advertising was simply not changing with the times. Half a decade later, things have come full circle. PR is now finding its credibility in the intensive care unit. Stefan Engeseth gives the PR business the same treatment. The Fall of PR & the Rise of Advertising, with a foreword by Al Ries, analyses the enormous changes in the media landscape in PR, advertising and everything in between. Stefan Engeseth's books, Detective Marketing and ONE, have firmly established him as one of today's most refreshing business thinkers. In his latest book, The Fall of PR & the Rise of Advertising, he shows how advertising has redefined itself and re-emerged as a force to be reckoned with. Written in his trade mark, funny, original and provocative style, the book adds whole new dimensions to the business world.

The must-read summary of David M. Scott's book: "The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing & Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly". This complete summary of the ideas from David M. Scott's book "The New Rules of Marketing and PR" describes how, at one time, the only realistic way you could reach potential customers was to use expensive advertising or try to get media publishers to pick up on material placed by your PR firm. Today, the internet has completely changed the rules of marketing and PR forever. In his book, the author predicts that the real marketing and PR challenges in the years ahead will be to stay at the cutting edge of the various internet-based ways of communicating with customers. This summary will teach you how to succeed in the future by harnessing the power of the internet in order to reach more customers than ever before. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand key concepts • Expand your knowledge To learn more, read "The New Rules of Marketing and PR" and find out how you can keep up with the changes brought by the internet and use them to your advantage.

Advertising has always been a uniquely influential social force. It affects what we buy, what we believe, who we elect, and so much more. We tend to know histories of other massive social forces, but even people working in advertising often have a tenuous grasp of their field's background. This book slices advertising's history into a smörgåsbord of specific topics like advertising to children, political advertising, people's names as advertisements, 3D advertising, programmatic buying, and so much more, offering a synopsis of how each developed and the role it played in this discipline. In doing so, many firsts are identified, such as the first full-page color magazine advertisement, and the first point-of-purchase advertisement. This book also reaches back farther in search of the earliest advertisements, and it tells the story of the variety of techniques used by our ancestors to promote their products and ideas. Part textbook, part reference, the book is an advertising museum in portable form suitable for all levels of students, scholars, and arm-chair enthusiasts. (Please note that the hardback and eBook formats of this book feature full-color printing. The paperback is grayscale.)

This book provides evidence-based answers to the key questions asked by marketers every day. Tackling issues such as how brands grow, how advertising really works, what price promotions really do and how loyalty programs really affect loyalty, How Brands Grow presents decades of research in a style that is written for marketing professionals to grow their brands.

Growth Hacker Marketing In the not-so-distant past, marketing was an art form steeped in intuition, creativity, and guesswork. It was a world where million-dollar campaigns were launched with no guarantee of success, where the effectiveness of strategies could only be measured in hindsight, and where the boundary between success and failure was often perilously thin. Traditional marketing, with its reliance on billboards, television commercials, and print ads, demanded hefty budgets and offered little in the way of precise targeting or measurable results. Marketers operated on faith and gut feelings, hoping their message would resonate with the masses and drive sales.

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories. Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including: - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West? - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority? - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions? Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.