Firework Shopping, Male Complex, & Price Anchors

by The Copy Assassin on July 3, 2011

Us Americans are busy buying fireworks and booze in honor of 4th of July.

I was shopping today to buy some high quality “works” when I noticed they had a

Backyard Bash $500 is a price anchor that causes people to spend more.

set called “Backyard Bash” for $500.00

It was the biggest package in the whole hut, over $700 worth of killer works.

My male complex was kicking in, ” i need this!” “Adam, you deserve this”.

I quickly then walked around to see that average price point for fireworks was around
$40.

Compare $500 to $40, and $40 bucks seems like a total steal.

In the marketing world, the $500 “Backyard Bash” is a price anchor. A price anchor is
an item/service that is costs way more than the average priced goods. It is the most
expensive thing, and it screams “Hey, look at me!”

A price anchor makes all the other comparitive prices seem like good deals.

A well done price anchor will increase your average point of sale.

Please strongly consider adding a price anchor to all your products/services.

Be Awesome!

Adam

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WARNING: THIS POSTED IS RATED TBM (Teenage Boy Mature).

Brilliant insights usually come at weird moments.

Take lesson #439. Got that one during a bathroom stop on a road trip to Sasquatch festival ( 14 days, 4,000 miles, wow…)

We’d been driving a lot that day when I got the urge to take a shit.

The kind of urge that says, “You better deal with now or else!”.

So I immediately pull into a diner and dash to the bathroom.

And let me tell you, it was a quick and easy delivery.

Do you ever get that relaxed feeling after taking a quality dump?

Well, I was enjoying the feeling, lost in my thoughts, when heard a “Click Click” noise coming from the doornob.

Somebody else wanted to use the bathroom.

DAMN!

So I quickly cleaned up and left.

And then it hit me:

Social norms have an incredibly powerful subconscious effect on behavior.

I mean, I had no desire to leave the bathroom. Yet, convention says if a person needs to use the bathroom, you quickly do your thing and let the other person in.

And the thing about social norms…

… NOBODY tells you to take a certain action.

Its like you just do it because its the right to do. You do it because that just have to do it.

A person sneezes.

What do you say?

An old lady walks into a crowded bus?

What do you do?

A person with only 1 item at the market goes behind you, and on, and on, and on…..

So the question I have for both you and me is:

How do we use social norms to alters peoples behavior in a way that is profitable?

I don’t have the answer for that right now.

What do you think?

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