How Esso Softsoap and AOL Once Tried to Beat Competitors Essay

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Judo in Action

' The meaning of judo -- an offshoot of jujutsu -- translates to something like "the gentle or yielding way" (judoinfo.com). The founder of judo was Professor Jigoro Kano, who believed that an alternative for jujutsu should be developed so that when practiced, a person practicing judo could win a contest "without injury" to the other combatant (judoinfo.com). This paper reviews and critiques the competition between product manufacturing companies -- combatants in their own right -- that compete with their innovative products and advertising campaigns. Innovations in this paper's marketing stories are intended to help raise revenue without injury to a company's bottom line.

Innovations and Competitions

When Robert Taylor came up with Softsoap, a liquid that was designed to go head-to-head with bar soap, he knew full well that companies like Proctor & Gamble and Armour-Dial would compete with their own liquid soap products. Taylor's gamble (to spend $7 million on advertising) paid off, but his timing (an important component of judo and other martial arts) was splendid when he decided to sell Softsoap to Colgate-Palmolive for $61 million. In the same year he sold Softsoap, Armour-Dial tried another produce (Liquid Dial) which roared past Softsoap with sales totaling $200 million.

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