Gillette Power

Posted in Hair Removal | October 20th, 2009

Gillette Power

King Gillette’s Influence

Author: Megan

I don’t know what else we should have expected from a man named King, but for a traveling salesman, his influence is especially far reaching.
King Camp Gillette was selling bottle caps for a living while he worked on an idea that would spawn so many other great ideas (and some slightly ridiculous ideas, like the 5-blade razor, but we can’t really blame him for arms races like that). He didn’t have a particular passion for shaving – he just wanted an idea for something that would make him money. He recognized the golden rule of sales – if you can sell something that people need and use and throw away – but then buy again – you have a way to make money for life. There were some alternatives to the straight razors that were everywhere at the time, but the blades for them still had to be forged, which meant they were expensive to produce and to buy.
Gillette’s genius was two-fold. First, he realized that if he could sell a razor with disposable blades, he could keep customers for life as they continued to buy replacement blades. Second, to make a better profit margin, he realized that he needed to find a cheaper way to produce the blades, and after a lot of work, he found someone who helped him to develop a process for stamping blades our of sheets of steal.
Gillette’s razors sold for $5 apiece, and blades sold in packages of 20 for $1.
This is where Gillette’s legacy really takes off. Yes, he was the pioneer who was responsible for the Gillette Company, which now includes Oral-B, Braun and Duracell after being purchased by Proctor and Gamble in 2005. To business students, however, he is also the father of a powerful business model, called either freebie marketing or the razor and blades business model. The idea was to give people the razor (or the lamp, or the DVR, Prince CD, etc.) which will in turn yield profit when the customer comes back to buy razor blades (or kerosene or installation or concert tickets) from the same company. Gillette still uses this model (they used it on me just last week, when I bought some inexpensive razors and got a nicer model for free – which I loved and will probably have to buy again), but so do countless other businesses that give something away for free but by giving it open up a new customer prospect

About the Author:

Megan Winegar is the Web Editor for OverstockDrugstore.com. She also writes the content and code for the emails that OverstockDrugstore sends out to subscribing customers (complete with coupons and price drops), and is working to make the copy on the site more straightforward and customer-friendly. Feel free to subscribe to the email list on the main page of OverstockDrugstore.com and find the internet’s best deals on health and beauty products you use every day, including the Gillette atra.

Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – King Gillette’s Influence

Is there a difference between gillette fusion razors and gillette fusion power razors?

I wanna know because i have the gillette fusion power razor and want to know if i can use the glt fusion razors instead of the glt fusion power ones.

Thanks

The manual Gillette fusion razor blades can be used on the power fusion razor for sure based on the instructions that I came across. I have used both these and initially I felt the power fusion was better, but over time I think there is not so much difference to go for the power version.

Jim Gillette hits an insane scream!