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Cover of Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind by Al Ries and Jack Trout

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

Al Ries and Jack Trout · 1982
Mentioned 9 times across 5 podcasts · 2020–2026
Mention timeline9 mentions
20202026
Where it's mentioned
2026
5 ruthless business lessons from one week in NYC
My First Million · Jul 2026 · 40:26
and the first book that he said was a book called positioning by this guy named al trout i think his name is um i think he also wrote the twenty two immutable laws of marketing of which tim fares that's like ▶ tap to hear this moment · 12s
I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch
My First Million · Jul 2026 · 41:12
but if you add to it you read positioning mm have you know this one is that by love positioning nobody reads positioning and then they up their whole market ▶ tap to hear this moment · 9s
2025
Superhuman's secret to success: Ignoring most customer feedback, manually onboarding every new user, obsessing over every detail, and positioning around a single attribute: speed | Rahul Vohra (CEO)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Mar 2025 · 44:13
in the first year of superhuman therefore i interviewed hundreds of potential customers about their experience with gmail and with outlook and predictably almost everybody said that email takes way too much time but interestingly many people also said that gmail and outlook well way too slow and that was how i first thought that speed could be an interesting position for us is the position of speed unique and is it available and the answer was overwhelmingly l yes because almost ▶ tap to hear this moment · 34s
2024
April Dunford: The Marketing Expert
The Knowledge Project · Aug 2024 · 37:40
if you read the original book on positioning was called positioning the battle for your mind by these guys reason trout ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s
2023
A step-by-step guide to crafting a sales pitch that wins | April Dunford (author of Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Oct 2023 · 76:55
the original book on positioning which is the book by recent trout positioning the battle for your mind ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
2022
The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, Marketer in Residence at First Round Capital)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Aug 2022 · 77:10
in marketing land definitely the book called positioning the battle for your mind it's from nineteen eighty it's still my favorite marketing book ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s
2021
#538: How I Built The Tim Ferriss Show to 700+ Million Downloads — An Immersive Explanation of All Aspects and Key Decisions (Featuring Chris Hutchins)
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2021 · 174:02
positioning by the same authors reese r i e s not eric but uh an older reese and trout ▶ tap to hear this moment · 8s
Stewart Butterfield - We Don’t Sell Saddles Here - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 43]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jul 2021 · 3:43
one was positioning a book about marketing ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s
2020
Rahul Vohra - Using Emotion to Design Great Products - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.1]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Oct 2020 · 23:35
and she also recommended this book which i would heartily recommend to anyone listening to the show positioning the battle for your mind ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s