@MJ I've been on the verge of agreeing to disagree from the beginning, but the answers kept getting more and more ridiculous and I felt like answering was the best idea
Gary Halbert went to prison because of false claims in his advertising... yet almost everybody on here wanting to learn copywriting is following his advice. Yes, it's not the same crime, but somehow with Halbert, the topic wasn't much of an issue... Why?... because you can take the copywriting and put it to good use
you don't have to make false claims like him
Another topic just praised Shredz CEO for being a hard worker and all that stuff... if you want to get to the nitty gritty (I don't know how it's written haha), he has a fat loss product like every supplement company out there, promising to get you shredded, yet we all know that product will not make you lose fat like it claims if you keep eating like a pig... does that mean i can't learn from how he promoted his brand on instagram, etc? What if it's really effective, and my company is telling people about how much bullshit those supplements are?
There is a difference between learning a skill and taking on that person's morals.
@GrumpyCat nobody is saying you don't have good morals, but if you come to your team and present to them a selling technique that Jordan Belfort used because you know it will work, to help you sell in your morally-conscious company, what difference does it make that it came from JB? The technique works and will help your company do good things.
It's not like that advice will force you to do bad things with it
Why not stop reading persuasion and marketing books, because you can use those skills to manipulate people?
Anyway...I really dumbed this down to the lowest point I can, if we can't even agree on some of this, then we'll agree to disagree