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November 11, 2014 What Challenger Brands Can Learn from the Midterm Elections

  With all due respect to the NFL, Heavyweight Boxing, and MMA, America’s favorite blood sport is politics. In the past year, candidates in the…

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November 6, 2014 The Challenger Brand Library: 16 Books That Transformed LOOMIS, Pt.2

  On Wednesday, we blogged about eight of the 16 books that have influenced and helped transform LOOMIS over the years. Today, we look at…

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November 5, 2014 The Challenger Brand Library: 16 Books That Transformed LOOMIS

  Whenever people ask us about building challenger brands, inevitably the discussion turns to what books have been most influential for us and which are…

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October 15, 2014 It’s time for challenger brand restaurants to raise a glass

When it comes to competition in the restaurant world, it doesn’t matter whether you’re casual dining, fast casual, or QSR. The battle royale for customers…

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September 19, 2014 Scotland’s independence vote delivers powerful challenger brand lesson

The headlines could have been a lot different this morning. Had Scotland voted to leave the United Kingdom in favor of independence Thursday, the economic…

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September 12, 2014 Challenger Branding From The Inside

Build a culture. And brand it. Four months ago, I stepped into the LOOMIS office for the first time when I interviewed for the position…

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August 22, 2014 3 Challenger Brands Driving Sales By Thinking INSIDE The Box

Hands down, the most clichéd request in marketing is for “out of the box” thinking. But what we often forget is that sometimes, the magic…

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August 19, 2014 When Is a Market Leader a Challenger Brand?

Last week I took the long drive from Dallas to Los Angeles with my daughter to start her freshman year of college. I promise there’s…

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August 14, 2014 How Challenger Brand Thinking (And Ice Water) Raised Millions For ALS

You’re a disease. A brutal, heart-breaking, mysterious disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). You’re not heart disease. You’re not cancer. You don’t have a Race…

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August 8, 2014 Want to build a challenger brand? Start with your values.

We all have something we stand for—something we believe in, something we strive toward. And we tend to seek out and build relationships with like-minded…

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