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Al Ries Home

The TGIF 'Revolution' Is Nothing Without a Marketing Strategy

Social Media Isn't Enough to Save a Weak Brand FULL ARTICLE

Upgraded Extensions May Make 'Basic' Version Look Worse

Consumers Don't Like Choosing Between Quality and Price FULL ARTICLE

Slowly But Surely, Line Extensions Will Take Your Brand Off Course

Beer Category Shows Cannibalization of Core Brands FULL ARTICLE

GM's Appointment of Lutz Shows No Respect for Marketing

Without a Story, Carmaker's Advertising Isn't Going to Cut It FULL ARTICLE

Advertising Could Do With More of Bernbach's Genius

Recognizing Good Ideas Can Be More Important than Creativity FULL ARTICLE

Metric Madness: The Answer to Mathematical Failure Seems to Be More Math

If You Run a Company by Numbers Alone, You'll Run It Into the Ground FULL ARTICLE

What's Love Got to Do With It?

Consumers Fall for the Brands That Are First in Their Minds FULL ARTICLE

Al Ries on Marketing

The Difference Between Building a Business and Building a Brand

Don't Confuse the Latter With Celebrity Index FULL ARTICLE

What Marketers Can Learn From Obama's Campaign

Change -- and Positioning -- You Can Believe in FULL ARTICLE

Boost Your PR by Doing Something, Not Just Saying Something

Marketers Should Consider the Potential of Annual Events FULL ARTICLE

The Visual Hammer and the Verbal Nail

You Need Both to Build a Powerful Brand FULL ARTICLE

Al Ries

Mobilenet Promises to Be the Next Big Medium

But Don't Get Sidetracked Into Third-Screen Thinking FULL ARTICLE

Variable Pricing Is Ultimate Brand-Destruction Machine

You Want Your Customers to Be Loyal to Your Brand, Not Its Price FULL ARTICLE

Don't Damage Your Brand for Short-Term Gains in a Recession

Cadillac Should Remember What Happened to Its Long-Ago Rival Packard FULL ARTICLE

Are You a Left Brainer or a Right Brainer?

Marketing Success Comes From the Right FULL ARTICLE

Al Ries on Marketing

If GM Has a Brand, It's General Misery

Company Has Eight Brands, but No Brand Messaging FULL ARTICLE

Take a Holistic Approach to Your Messaging

Marketers Don't Think Like Consumers Do FULL ARTICLE

The Pitfalls of Megabranding

Consumers Don't Necessarily Want More Choice FULL ARTICLE

Ries' Pieces of Slogan Savvy

What You Can Learn From Lexus, Shakespeare FULL ARTICLE

Sometimes Saying 'No' Is Your Strongest Asset

Creative Wouldn't Have Been Enough to Save Isuzu FULL ARTICLE






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