
From Marginal to Mainstream
Why Tomorrowâs Brand Growth Will Come from the Fringes - and How to Get There First
- 264 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
From Marginal to Mainstream
Why Tomorrowâs Brand Growth Will Come from the Fringes - and How to Get There First
About this book
Legacy brands are struggling. The hand-to-hand combat for advantage has become a zero-sum game - producing small share gains and losses but nothing to bring about sensational new growth.
This book shows why businesses, marketers and entrepreneurs need to break free from their 'mainstream inhibition' and turn their attention to the margins - to confront, evaluate and embrace the 'strangeness' of behaviours, ideas and ways of life at the fringes.
Why? Because marginal behaviours can break through and take off. They can go mainstream. They can unleash 'consumer-driven disruption', promoting new innovation, new routes to market, new winners and losers - and new growth.
Using original research and analysis of the brands that have successfully backed marginal behaviours, From Marginal to Mainstream provides a framework for understanding and evaluating this non-obvious, untapped potential.
Marginal behaviours may be unpromising, untested, weird, even sometimes repulsive - yet they can point the way to the future.
Today's margins are tomorrow's pot of gold - if you know where and how to look.
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Table of contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part ONE The margins and why they matter
- 1 From âDoes anyone do that?â to âDoesnât everyone do that?â
- 2 Why modern mainstream marketing is a low-growth zone
- 3 Going for growth: Why the margins? And why now?
- Part TWO How to read the margins
- Research overview for Part 2
- 4 A smouldering fire in the fringes: the elemental beacons
- 5 Whatâs hidden, whatâs there and what could be: the revelatory beacons
- 6 Shakers of place and pace: the opportunity beacons
- 7 An irresistible momentum: the growth beacons
- Part THREE A strategy for growth
- Research overview for Part 3
- 8 Entrepreneurs get it â they are marginals too
- 9 Growth from the margins: a marketerâs playbook
- 10 The M2M advantage: seven things every leader should know
- Endnotes
- Index