3 Bits of Advice on challenging the healthcare category
Richard Fine, Co-founder of Help Remedies
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Business in Beta
An interview with Chris Lindland, founder of Betabrand, a business that started with a joke and hasn't stopped.
Betabrand: 99% fiction, 1% fashion
Some refections from Mark on what we can learn from the Betabrand model.
Measuring Purpose
It is hard not to enjoy some of the more unusual measures the entertainment industry suggests as alternative measures of ...
3 Bits of Advice on creating great customer experiences
Gillian James, Managing Director, TMI
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The Kindness of Strangers
James Alexander, co-founder of Zopa, talks about the financial and social reward of being part of a peer to peer money market.
Print is not dead! Long live the nerd!
I have always had really deep love of print. So, last night I went and sat in a cellar with ...
Reflections on working with entrepreneurs…
Mark shares some lessons from his recent work with Challenger Brand start-ups
Become a Level 8 Bell Master
I’m reading the excellent Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal at the moment. For those who haven’t yet read it, ...
The Enlightened Zagger
Rich Fine, co-founder of pharmaceutical brand Help Remedies, tells us why while the rest of the category goes one way, they go the other.
The peoples Supermarket
A new supermarket community in London. As a member of the supermarket, you pledge to work a few hours a ...
Searching for network…
Is there a more challenger influenced bunch than the UK mobile phone provider industry? The battle lines have been drawn ...
Stepping Up to Starbucks
Francis Allen talks about Dunkin’s Successful U.S. Expansion – the importance of good coffee, hard working values and picking a grande fight with a skinny mocha latte.
The Opportunity in Being Held Accountable: For JetBlue and Steven Slater
The Big Fish Inside
Mark spends an evening with four Challenger CMOs and two CEOs.
Pink Stinks
Abi Moore, founder of Pink Stinks, tells us why she believes that for young girls soft and sparkly is damaging and dangerous!
Delivering Happiness. A simple idea seems almost radical
Tony Hsieh handed me an advance reading copy of his book a couple months back after I’d interviewed him for ...
Kindling For The Fire
Dave Hieatt, co-founder of the Do Lectures explains how, when it comes to inspiring action, you need to start with words.
Be Seen, Be Heard
We meet the Manchester United Supporters Trust President Richard Hytner to hear how the supporters are finally getting their message across to the Glazers loud and clear.
Become Ideas Centred
Success is a very dangerous thing—it causes brands and people to stop behaving in the way that made them initially successful. ...
Hue
by Bella I was recently sent to New Zealand on a project. This was overwhelmingly fortuitous, and not just because ...
Using Communications and Publicity to Enter Social Culture
For a Challenger, who is outgunned and outresourced in almost every other area by the market leader, the use of ...
Sacrifice and Overcommit
Challengers have fewer resources in almost every aspect of the business and marketing mix than do the Big Fish—what they ...
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Create Symbols of Re-evaluation
Successful Challengers are brands in a hurry: they desire (and need) to puncture the consumer’s autopilot and create reappraisal of ...