Reteaching Techniques

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Is it wrong to reteach a technique learned from another person? For instance, I want to make a beginner internet marketing course for newbies and wanted to add a few techniques I learned out of Clickbank products and other resources.

Is it wrong to reteach something I learned from somebody else's product? Keep in mind I would not be solely teaching this technique as if it were my own. It would merely be a portion of my own product that is completely focused around my unique methods.

I will also be giving credit to those people that I actually learned the techniques from.

I just don't see how it could be wrong for me to teach people simple marketing techniques that I have learned from others most of which are no secret to internet marketers.

I guess the real question here is if any marketing technique is labeled a trademark technique or common knowledge. Can people even lay claim to a specific technique?
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  • Profile picture of the author David Keith
    have you had success using the techniques you plan sell?

    ideas cant be trademarked. products can be. and words are copywritten. so you cant steal them. but re-teaching an idea is ok from a legal perspective. (although i am not a lawyer and thus not qualified to give legal advice)

    however, morally its a bit trickier. well, for some of us anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author snowcloud
    Yah that is really what I was tryn to do. I just wanted to teach some ideas and techniques from my perspective. I would not be rehashing any products anybody made or using anybody else's words.

    In essence these techniques are things you could learn on your own with a little research but, they were just packaged together by other people into a product.
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    • Profile picture of the author barbling
      Originally Posted by snowcloud View Post

      Yah that is really what I was tryn to do. I just wanted to teach some ideas and techniques from my perspective. I would not be rehashing any products anybody made or using anybody else's words.

      In essence these techniques are things you could learn on your own with a little research but, they were just packaged together by other people into a product.
      Nothing is new under the sun.

      That being said, like someone above already commented, adding your own particular style and zing to your writing will make the product totally unique.

      Info, is info.

      Anyone can write about how to, say, make it possible to have multiple products per clickbank product without using software.

      But nobody else can write in your own particular style (as the blogging world would say, your own unique writing/blogging voice).

      Your voice is what can make all the difference.

      Hope that helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author JCorp
    if your teaching based on your experience than it's fine, and you're just basically using them as a resource. Also don't forget to add your unique perspective to the product and really make it your own...
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  • Profile picture of the author snowcloud
    Thanks you guys that actually gave me a lot more confidence about this. Was kinda skeptical about how I was going to go about providing the info.

    It is a lot like MattVit said. I'm just adding my own style to what I have learned from various resources and combining it into my own master plan sort of.
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