
22 Immutable Laws of Branding Review - 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! - Great book. Very consistent with their previous books and full of exemples that corroborate with the ideas.
in plain english - very easy to read, to the point...sometimes a little repetitive but that s ok...good for memorizing.
Exciting Book - This book is a classic. The language and content are so fresh you won t fail to be impressed even when you read it today.[...]
Half of this book is good for beginners, the other half is dangerous. - There are two parts to this book. One part is pure common sense to anyone vaguely aware of what branding is, and an excellent guide for beginners. The other part is almost pure fiction. The basics of branding are very well defined and explained through examples. Ideas are grouped under logical categories named laws (i.e., to be unconditionally obeyed?) whereas the concept of pattern (i.e., truths that apply most of the time in certain non-exclusive conditions) would have been more appropriate. The following excerpt is very characteristic of the self-confidence this book displays: Because the eye focuses red light behind the retina, red light appears to move toward you. Therefore, red is the color of energy and excitement.As a reader, I don t have a hard time believing that red is the color of energy and excitement. I also trust scientific experiments that red focuses behind the retina. But the causality link between the two is, to me, as risky as unnecessary.