Today I a saw an advertisement for a business which actually made me wonder how legal it would actually be. Basically a company was offering its service for free with the stipulation being that you must provide a good testimony for them. Again, this isn\u2019t just giving your honest feedback but rather they are insisting that you write something good where they would then use that testimony publicly to try and sell their service to others.<\/p>\n
That is kind of deceitful I think but it\u2019s not surprising. I know of some life coaches for example where even the student didn\u2019t feel like their learned anything they were kind of pressured to say something nice where the student didn\u2019t want to create conflict. Therefore they just gave a positive testimony and for me it\u2019s really weird seeing it on the site even though I know the person didn\u2019t truly like it.<\/p>\n
To me these testimonies should be a result of exceeding people\u2019s expectations where they want to see you grow and as a result they voluntarily give you one. No different than leaving positive reviews. But like trying a product if a company insists that to get things for free you must say something positive would you do it? This happens way more than we would like to think too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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