The Stealing Has To Stop

BCConstruction

If you have a bad name for your self than you have only your self to blame. Im known for doing a quality job and no hack would ever be able to change that and it's the reason im rammed with work. They can steal all my pictures and online infomation they like as it wont affect me. Unless they start using the same company name as me also and live in the same area.

480sparky

Well, I for one am glad you live in a fantasy world where the actions of others have no bearing on how you are perceived by the public in general. Most people have a general disdain for contractors, except for you, of course.

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Zinsco

It's very easy to circumvent that, just look at the page source code and enter the direct URL of the image into your browser. I'm confident that you know this but I wouldn't say it makes things a lot harder.

I would say that as far as electricians are concerned, 99% of the images are stolen. There's basically 20 pictures that appear over and over and over.....
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BCConstruction

Dont get me wrong i have worked for many people who have had people who have done a sub par job. But they have never treated me like i was going to have them over. As most contractors should know when most of your work is recomendations the people getting you to do the work have already seen what you can do. I very rarely do work for people that aint recomendations. In the last month i have got a $16000 deck, 5 bathrooms, Home theatre, 2000sqft floring, multiple crown, trim, baseboard installs, Window installs, sideing job, Kitchen, Basement remodel and some other small jobs just from recomendations. All customers willing to wait for me to get to them as well. I only been in the US for just over 2 years on and of and i am already rammed with work. Being English does help though.
And the copy cat hacks didnt affect me at all.

ChrWright

More than anything else, it's about pride. Of course it doesn't hurt my business when someone in another market copies me--that's not the point.

I'll be damned if someone else is going to take credit for something I built, or post my words as if they're their own.

That dog don't hunt.

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BCConstruction

I know some people are affected differently about things like this. I built a bar for a frind in a new club he was opening and it come out really nice. I heard a few months later that he had been telling everyone that he had built it. Yeah i thought he was cheeky but it didnt bother me enough to say anything. I knew full well that if someone asked him how he did it he wouldnt have the first clue. In the end making him self look like a complete tool bag. lol

Chris G

Not everyone's business come from recommendations. It depends upon the category you are in. How did you get your first job in the US?

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Zinsco

Word. For some reason Americans will buy anything from someone with a British accent. Every Brit I know is busy working and scoring American chicks! As more Americans relocate to Mexico and India in search of work, and more Brits come to America, England may win the revolutionary war after all!

BCConstruction

My first job when i come to the US was working in a food bar. Didnt have any tools as i left everything behind in the UK except my trusty Makita lxt's. They were impoted from the US so worked on 120v so bought them back here. The very first job i did here was a wet room shower for my bro in law, Then a tiled floor for him in another bathroom and slowly but surely i built up my tool collection and got my self a truck and trailer and almost every tool i need. Thats when little jobs popped up here and their like trim, crown and so on and it's built from that. Plus a little hard work of course.

BCConstruction

I heard about another english guy in my area. Aint had a chance to meet him yet. 27 years old and has his own window company with quite a few guys working for him by the sounds of it. Met his wife in the exact same way i did in the exact same place. His rep told me that he also gets loads of work because of his english accent.

angus242

That's because of our superior dental plans here...

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BCConstruction

The crazy thing in the UK is it's free and people dont use it lol. I have used both the UK and US system and so far the UK system has been far more advanced with the equipment they use. I had to have 12 x-rays to check my theeth over here and i was told this is normal? In the UK you sit in a machine that takes one x-ray and it loads a full 3d x-ray onto the pc in the surgeons room and they can view your theeth at any angle and zoom in and out. It's a shame it cost so dam much over here. I pay over $250 a month for my medical insurance and so far i have had to pay out for all my treatments as the insurance didnt cover it? I dont smoke, im healty, im into sports and keep my self fit. Im what they call a low risk. I would hate to see what cost a high risk is!

j_builder

Greg-Good point Why should one spend so much valuable time and effort to create a unique (one of a kind) website just to have some "copycat" take any of your pic's for free!

You've got some nice informative info on all of your website's too
I also removed a lot of my photo's here for the same reasons...just thought that I'd throw this at ya to see a response to a watermark for your pic's to maybe safe guard from the "copycats".

I took this picture from one that you posted here at CT and I don't intend to use it to better my business by it...much nicer than my work anyway.

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Greg Di

I know.

Believe me, this is not the first time I've had a sleaze bag steal from me online so I am pretty guarded with what I will explain online as far as techniques or tricks go. I got burned a few years ago by some guy in my backyard saying to go to my website, see what they want, and he'd do it for less. The guy actually admitted it online too. You want to talk about an ass-reaming. He got one from about 50 contractors and I put the word out on the street locally that the guy was a crook.

Not to say I don't say a word, but I realize there are some things that I know that I took a lot of effort to learn and I'm not putting the info out there for anyone to glean for free.

Right now, I'm locking down all my images as best I can and will be overtly watermarking everything from now on.

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Greg Di

Here's a nearly foolproof way to prevent theft:

http://animoto.com/play/nt7uWSXKU10b...ne_click_share

I may be embedding these all over the place.

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j_builder

I found this freeware to be user friendly.
http://www.photo-freeware.net/watermark-v2.php


Much for creative than a simple watermark! slide show/video

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Zinsco

Here's the watermark covered over by another.

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charimon

I love the irony
Craig

Destin Handyman

Simply email them and say you have 1 day to remove the listing, or you will have your attorney contact them about the listing and photos.

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