Will Your Brand Be Up To The Challenge At Best Buy?
- Dec
- 14
- Posted by Ben Smith
- Posted in "How To" Get Leverage, best buy, Blog, By Ben Smith, Challenger Brand Strategies, Why You Need Leverage

We here at Retail Leverage are big fans of Best Buy, so we were delighted when BusinessWeek took a look at Best Buy in the post-apocalyptic environment after the demise of Circuit City. While Walmart and Amazon are worthy foes, Best Buy is the only large national consumer electronics player left standing. However important Best Buy was before as part of the buying process – regardless of the final point of purchase – Best Buy is now ready to take advantage of its position.
If you are a challenger brand marketer (or an agency working with one) there are lots of takeaways.
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read moreLexmark Offered the Apple Store Value Beyond Printing
- Dec
- 10
- Posted by Vincent Young
- Posted in Blog, By Vincent Young, Challenger Brand Strategies

Despite its apparent misfit with the Apple Store panache, Lexmark announced last month that it successfully secured distribution of a new Lexmark-branded All-in-One Printer called “Interact” in Apple Stores and at store.apple.com. So how did Lexmark accomplish the seemingly impossible? By enacting a retail leverage strategy that aligned the Lexmark brand and product offering with the needs, wants, and expectations of the interconnected, tech & fashion-forward, high performance Apple-nation.
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