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Engaging Brand Podcast 419 - Defending Your Brand

January 27, 2013


Welcome to the latest and free The Engaging Brand podcast covering social marketing, business ideas and brand marketing tips.


Today is an interview with Tim Calkins who is clinical professor of marketing at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management where he teaches marketing strategy, biomedical marketing and strategic marketing. Tim has written a book called Defending Your Brand and we discuss




  • How competition in business is the ultimate compliment for marketing and business in general.
  • Doesn't the definition of capitalism require competitors in business to succeed?
  • Does competition in business makes you improve customer service management?
  • How do you assess the financial risks of a competitor and how to manage operational risk of a new entrant into your market?
  • How do assess risk from competitors in an adjacent market who offer new products to the market?
  • Are we too obsessed with a growth strategy?
  • Defensive tactics to stop a competitor
  • Is defending your brand a psychology in business question as much as a financial one?
  • How do you perform competitive analysis?

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