🤖🚀7 Psychological Profit-Extracting Tactics

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Today’s Hyper Growth Blueprint covers…

• 🐭 How a little mouse makes $2,200,000,000/year in profit

• 🤑 7 Psychological Profit-Extracting Tactics

Let’s dive straight in…👇

Reporting in this week from Disney World in Florida.

I’m here for a couple weeks with my family for some good old fashioned ‘vacation’ fun.

In between stuffing my face with Mickey Waffles…

I have once again found myself mesmerised at the profit-extracting tactics I am willfully surrendering myself too as I walk around these gargantuan theme parks.

Here’s 7 very clever psychological business and pricing strategies the folks at Disney use to empty their guests wallets…👇

1. The Secret Smell Machines

Disney has installed devices called "Smellitzers" throughout their parks.

These contraptions strategically pump specific scents to trigger impulse food purchases.

Honestly the smell of warm buttery popcorn or fresh-baked cookies is amaaaazng.

But it’s not natural…

It’s Disney manipulating your senses to make you buy snacks you weren't planning to purchase.

2. They Track Your Every Move

When you arrive at Disney, you get a “MagicBand”.

It’s pitched as a convenience for you as your hotel room, credit card, and theme park tickets are all loaded onto it.

But it’s also a sophisticated tracking devices that monitors EVERYTHING you do!

When you’re wearing one of these bad boys, Disney know…

• Every ride you go on and how long you wait

• Everything you buy and where you buy it

• What you eat and when you eat it

• Which characters you meet

• Your exact location throughout the park at all times

• Even your spending patterns and preferences

I would love to be a fly on the wall in their data team…

3. The Psychology of Removing Dollar Signs

Disney removes dollar signs from restaurant menus at their fancy dining locations.

This isn't for aesthetics.

It's because dollar signs trigger our brains to think about money being spent.

And that can create negative feelings.

Without the "$" symbol, your brain processes the numbers as less threatening.

Which makes you more likely to order expensive items 😄 

4. Every Ride Ends in a Gift Shop

Disney takes this to the logical extreme and every single ride forces you to walk through a gift shop.

But not only that, each gift shop is hyper relevant to the ride. Filled to the brim with specific merch from that ride.

This accomplishes two things:

1. By simply giving people more opportunities to buy, you will sell more stuff.
   

2. By presenting relevant and specific offers at the time when interest is high, you will sell more stuff.

5. The FOMO Inducing Special Offers

Disney constantly releases "limited edition" items that create artificial urgency.

They make guests feel they NEED to buy something immediately or miss out forever.

This drives impulse purchases of items people had zero intention of buying just days earlier.

6. The "Disney Bubble" Pricing Strategy

Disney World is flippin’ huge. It’s TWICE the size of Manhattan.

Once you drive through the magical entrance and get inside Disney property…

…you're trapped in their pricing ecosystem.

A bottle of water that costs $1 outside costs $4+ inside the park.

They know you can't leave easily, so they can charge whatever they want for necessities.

7. The Hidden Costs Avalanche

Disney advertises low base ticket prices but then hits you with endless upcharges:

• Parking: $30/day

• Lightning Lane (skip the line): $15-30+ per person per day

• Photo packages: $200+

• Dining plans that cost more than paying individually

• Resort fees and taxes not included in advertised hotel rates

Safe to say they get you good.

Whilst you can technically experience Disney without these extras… it’s a significantly diminished experience.

All of this helps them collect over $2.2 BILLION in annual profits.

Disney has essentially created a closed economic system where…

• they control every aspect of pricing

• eliminate competition

• track your every move

…and use psychological manipulation to maximise how much money they extract from each guest.

It's simultaneously brilliant and terrifying how they've turned childhood magic into a sophisticated profit-maximisation machine.

That being said, these psychological “tricks” only work when they are wrapped around an outstanding product.

These tactics are things that can enhance your business… not build it.

Some food for thought… I’m off to hit the theme parks… ✌🏼

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