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Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders Hardcover – 23 January 2009
Adam Morgan
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- Publisher : Wiley; 2 edition (23 January 2009)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0470238275
- ISBN-13 : 978-0470238271
- Dimensions : 16 x 3.81 x 23.11 cm
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"Eating the Big Fish is on fire with ideas. Best in the marketplace."
―Steve Hayden, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy Worldwide
"Adam Morgan's brand advice is among the most practical and useful there is. My team is responsible for helping drive the success of brands like Axe and Degree deodorant in the United States, and Eating the Big Fish has shaped our thinking, driven our teams to adopt 'Challenger' behavior, and helped us dramatically grow our market share."
―Kevin George, Vice President and General Manager, Unilever United States
"My bedtime reading when we were setting up innocent."
―Richard Reed, cofounder, innocent
"I devoured Adam's book and used his thinking to create method as a Challenger brand to take on the giants of the soap industry. To say we live his principles daily is an understatement. This book will give you the framework to run through the legs of Goliath―and create relentless growth."
―Eric Ryan, cofounder, method
"'Challenger' isn't a state of market, it's a state of mind. This way of thinking is as important and powerful for a hugely successful brand as it is for a start-up, and this book will show you why."
―Andy Berndt, Managing Director, Google Creative Lab
From the Back Cover
Updated and revised with additional chapters and thirty new examples of Challenger brands in action, the Second Edition of Eating the Big Fish reflects recent developments in the marketplace and media since the publication of the bestselling and influential first edition. Author Adam Morgan―who, with his company, has researched and worked with Challengers over the last decade―presents and analyzes the effective marketing tactics Challenger brands use to raise their profiles and take market share.
Morgan provides practical advice and plentiful, easy-to-follow examples to show how a Challenger brand can get noticed and steal customers from competitors with much bigger advertising and marketing budgets. He presents eight Challenger credos that stress bringing a fresh perspective to market, building a prominent and emotionally appealing identity, implementing a pervasive communication strategy, and focusing intently on ideas rather than consumers.
This new edition explores what needs to change and what needs to stay the same for Challenger brands in the shifting communications landscape of media, technology, and the Web. Most important, it affirms that Challenger brands are alive, well, and hungry. If you want to increase the profile and the profitability of your brand against bigger competitors, this book puts the big fish on your menu.
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This book is quite useful in pointing out via examples how a consumer brand should "think" in order to get noticed, to create traction in the market, in order to have a chance against potentially larger and much more established brands.
There is no simple recipe nor answer, but it is quite thought-provoking and in fact therefore pretty useful.
He has developed some sort of conceptual model which I personally don't need much nor find too useful - having been a management consultant with a famous consultancy in my distant past - but the practical examples and comments are good.

Put very simple other books like appraised Kevin Robert's Lovemarks stress the importance of an emotional connection in B2C relations. Fair enough but this finding is the easy part. How to do it is much more tricky.
Eating the Big Fish gives you the blue print to accomplish this. Am on my fourth copy (all worn out with underlining and comments) and Adam Morgan's brilliant thinking has been the foundations of all my companies since I first read the first edition more than 10 years ago. I cannot express my die hard excitement strong enough.
Actually when I come to think about it - maybe I should instead encourage you to not read this book. Because then I potentially loose my competitive edge..:)
However, some sort of poetic justice and my deep appreciation for Eating The Big Fish encourage my to tell the truth: The best book and not by coincidence the foundation on which successful companies like Innocent and Method created their storytelling.


As much as you can't become a challenger just by reading a book, this is a bloody good start and guide-rail for when you do default back to mundane mainstream, albeit temporarily.
