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Seth Godin<br />

The Pearl in the Bottle<br />

Remember Prell All of us boomers certainly can envision<br />

the clear bottle of shampoo filled with green liquid . . .<br />

and the pearl slowly drifting downward. This image was<br />

omnipresent in the advertising for Prell.<br />

The commercial never made it clear precisely what a<br />

pearl had to do with shampoo or why we wanted the pearl<br />

to move slowly. What is beyond dispute is that TV commercials<br />

made this rather ordinary shampoo a significant<br />

success.<br />

Where do you find a Purple Cow in the cosmetics business<br />

After all, almost all shampoos are the same. More<br />

often than not, it’s an extraneous exotic ingredient or<br />

fancy packaging that people notice, not the effectiveness of<br />

the potion.<br />

Compare the inexorable decline of Prell (the TV commercials<br />

stopped working) with the gradual ascent of Dr. Bronner’s.<br />

Dr. Bronner’s does no advertising at all, yet their product<br />

continues to grow in sales and market share. If it’s not<br />

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