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Al Ries

출생: November 14, 1926 – Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Al Ries is an American marketing strategist and author best known for shaping modern brand positioning theory. He coauthored Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind and The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing with Jack Trout, writing widely on branding, advertising, and strategy. His work has strongly influenced marketers and executives worldwide.

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Al Ries was born Alfred Paul Ries in Indianapolis on November 14, 1926, the son of a schoolteacher and a homemaker. After service as a merchant mariner and then in the Army in Korea shortly after World War II, he graduated from DePauw University in 1950 with a mathematics degree. He began his career in the advertising department of General Electric, then moved through New York agencies including Needham, Louis & Brorby and Marsteller. That combination of quantitative training and agency experience helped shape his lifelong belief that marketing was fundamentally a matter of strategy, not ornament. ((https://www.alries.com/nyt))

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Marketing is a battle of perceptions, not products
-Positioning Sessions
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The only thing that works in business today is marketing sense
-Are you a left brainer or a right brainer?
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What works in marketing today is simplicity, not complexity
-Are you a left brainer or a right brainer?
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Advertising is not about “creativity.”
-Coca-Cola gets real
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What advertising does best is to protect and enhance the position that a brand has already achieved
-Coca-Cola gets real
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The medium is the message, but few are listening
-The medium is the message, but few are listening
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Each new medium demands new brands and new content
-The medium is the message, but few are listening
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Consumers much prefer visual words
-What’s missing in most marketing programs? Verbal imagery
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Competition creates enormous consumer interest in the category and stimulates a lot of PR
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"The New York Times called Al Ries an influential marketing strategist who popularized positioning"

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