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"Can you do it?" vs "You can do it" marketing

Sam explains Beachbody's two-mode marketing: most fitness products say 'this is easy, you can do it,' but P90X, Insanity, and 75 Hard flip it to a challenge ('I don't know if you can do it'). The time-bound, hard-sounding framing makes people commit and want to prove themselves.

“He goes, we've always marketed our products as you can do it. This is so easy, you can do it. And what 75 Hard and P90X do is the opposite. They go, can you do it? It's a challenge to you. I don't know if you can do it. This shit's hard., right? So then they started creating all these— they have two versions of their marketing. You can do it marketing and can you do it marketing.”

Steal thisMarket a hard product as a dare ('can you do it?') instead of reassurance to trigger commitment and pride.