Eating the Big Fish
How Challenger Brands Can Compete against Brand Leaders
Published on 27. January 1999
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-471-24209-3 (ISBN)
Description
In Eating the Big Fish, Adam Morgan offers hands-on advice, examples, and useful information to the #2, #3, and #4 brands looking to compete effectively with the top banana. He defines the various types of "challenger brands" and then discusses the brand and advertising strategies of the most famous and successful challenger brands of the last decade.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
facsimiles
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.8 cm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-24209-3 (9780471242093)
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
03/2009
2nd Edition
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Person
ADAM MORGAN is Joint European Planning Director of TBWA, one of the world's largest advertising agencies, whose clients include Absolut, Taco Bell, Nissan, Energizer, and Apple. Most recently, as Planning Director, North America for TBWA Chiat/Day, he has worked on the launch or relaunch of Challengers in markets as diverse as airlines (Virgin Atlantic) and video games (Sony Playstation), across the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Founder of the Challenger Project, a continually evolving worldwide study of Challenger brands (of which Eating the Big Fish is the first output), he has lectured on Challengers to audiences as diverse as American advertising directors, Portuguese business graduates, and the Global Marketing Conference in London.
Content
THE SIZE AND NATURE OF THE BIG FISH; More Blood from a Small Stone; The Consumer Isn't; What Is a Challenger Brand?; THE EIGHT CREDOS OF SUCCESSFUL CHALLENGER BRANDS; The First Credo: Break with Your Immediate Past; The Second Credo: Build a Lighthouse Identity; The Third Credo: Assume Thought Leadership of the Category; The Fourth Credo: Create Symbols of Reevaluation; The Fifth Credo: Sacrifice; The Sixth Credo: Overcommit; The Seventh Credo: Use Advertising and Publicity as a High-Leverage Asset; The Eighth Credo (Part 1): Become Idea-Centered, Not Consumer-Centered; The Eighth Credo (Part 2): Flying Unstable; The Relationship between the Eight Credos; USING THE CHALLENGER STRATEGIC PROGRAM; Challenger as a State of Mind: Staying Number One Means Thinking Like a Number Two; Writing the Challenger Program: The Two-Day Off-Site; Apple, Risk, and the Circle of Rope; Postscript; References and Sources; Acknowledgments; Photo Credits; Index.