Al Ries

Al Ries is a marketing professional and author. He is also the co-founder and chairman of the Atlanta-based consulting firm Ries & Ries with his partner and daughter, Laura Ries. Along with Jack Trout, Ries is crediting with coining the term "positioning", as related to the field of marketing,^[1] and authored Positioning: The Battle For Your Mind, an industry standard on the subject.

Ries graduated from DePauw University in 1950 with a degree in liberal arts and accepted a position with the advertising department of General Electric before founding his own advertising agency in New York City, Ries Cappiello Colwell, in 1963. The agency later changed to a marketing strategy firm, Trout & Ries.

In 1972, again cooperating with Trout, Ries co-authored a three-part series of articles declaring the arrival of the "Positioning Era" in Advertising Age magazine, promoting their concept of positioning.

In 1994, Ries founded Ries & Ries with his daughter Laura a recent graduate of Northwestern University and TBWA advertising account executive.

Ries was selected as one of the most influential people in the field of public relations in the 20th century by PR Week magazine in 1999. Ries has also written a number of books that have made the BusinessWeek best seller list ^[2][3] on a number of occasions.

The American Marketing Association, NY Chapter announced Al Ries a one of the 2016 inductees to the Marketing Hall of Fame®.^[4]

Bibliography

• Al Ries
  • Focus (1996)
• Al Ries with Laura Ries
  • 22 Immutable Laws of Branding (1998, 2002)
  • 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding (2000)
  • The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR (2002)
  • The Origin of Brands (2004)
  • War in the Boardroom
• Al Ries with Jack Trout
  • Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind (1981, 2000)
  • Marketing Warfare (1985, 2005)
  • Bottom-up Marketing (1988)
  • Horse Sense (1991)
  • The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing (1993)

Top clients

• Apple Inc. (previously Apple Computer, Inc.)
• AT&T
• Branders.com
• Burger King
• Digital Equipment
• Frito-Lay
• IBM
• Illy
• Inhale Technology
• Intel
• Lotus Development
• Maxion
• Missouri Board of Tourism
• Novell
• Paramount Television
• Procter & Gamble
• samsung
• Silicon Graphics
• SmithKline
• Southwest Airlines
• Tambrands
• Xerox

Complete list of clients here ^[5]

References

1. "Brand Strategy Insider". The Blake Project. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
2. "The Business Week Best-Seller List". 1999-01-11. Archived from the original on 2008-03-02.
3. "The BusinessWeek Best Seller List". 2002-11-04. Archived from the original on 2008-03-02.
4. "2016 Marketing Hall of Fame Inductee". New York American Marketing Association. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
5. http://www.ries.com/consulting-clientlist.php?startletter=a&endletter=z

External links

• Official website, Ries & Ries
• IMNO Open Source Mentoring Interview with Al Ries
• Q&A featuring Al Ries