[feldon]

Hi I am going to design my own website as I have some experience of this in the past. However I am struggling to find photo's to up load.  Not started trading yet so do not have any of my own portfolio to show.  I have seen various threads suggesting free stock photo's that you can download, but as always when you try to find the thread again you never can.  Can anyone suggest a site with free stock photo's showing various carpets etc to use on a website?

[absolutecleaning]

I used istock.

[feldon]

Thanks for the reply, I'll check them out.

Cheers

Richard

[John Higgins]

Hi
Try 
Will be charging £3.00 + Vat per Photo

Will Be organising another Profestional Shoot soon
For leather - Rug & Power Washing

Kind Regrds
Mark

[Paul Simpson]

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Isn't that Mr Halliday in the pics 

[John Higgins]

yes it is mike we have naked pictures of mike available on request

[Mike Halliday]

Mark, sorry mate but you need to contact the administrator before using the the site for commercial sales.

so your link has to be deleted,

[John Higgins]

no problem mike

[feldon]

I found some pretty good stock photo's on istock thanks, worked out at about £1.50 per photo.

Just read the above thread, didn't make make sense till I saw Mikes post

[happy mondays]

Hi Mike, just read this topic and its left me a little bit confused 

So its ok to just mention another company for their own commercial gain (as istock was) as long as a link to the beneficiary's website isnt posted?
So posting prices, names of companys, what they do etc, etc..... is ok?

Regards,

Paul

   

[Mike Halliday]

Paul, you can mention Istock and post a link but Istock cannot come onto the site and sell their products.


companies cannot use the site to make money from its members without paying or at least asking permission.

Mark owns dp design..... for them to sell photos on a commercial basis need permission from the administrator.

mark is one of my best mates and I organised the photo shoot from which the photos came from, but its the rules.

[happy mondays]

Sorry Mike I wasnt being hostile, I didnt realise this was the case and that you knew it was Marks company.

But how would you know a new member wasnt say the marketing manager for istock,, extreme I know because a company as big as this doesnt need to sell services on a cleaning forum, but you must see what I mean.

Regards,

Paul

[Ian Gourlay]

Mark, sorry mate but you need to contact the administrator before using the the site for commercial sales.

so your link has to be deleted,

Hi Mike I do not normally swear but I hate Moderators sometime, asI am looking for some photos

[John Higgins]

Fair comment you are correct in what you say
only paid advertisers should mention there services on this board

on another point what if a supplier wants to provide  an additional service to carpet cleaners
but wants to gage customer opinion to see if it worth investing in

Ie doing another photo shoot to extend the range of carpet cleaning pics
can you post then to see if cleaners would require this service.


may be the admin could charge a fee for making a post like this

[Matt Lindus]

I've got a picture of some pink curtains, let me know if you want it.

[Mike Halliday]

Mark I can see anything wrong with you starting a post mentioning that you are doing a photo shoot and asking the members what photos they think are unavailable through Istock etc that they would like to use.

me personally I can never find commercial photos of office cleaning

[feldon]

As the op, i do think this post has gone a little off track.  I was genuinely looking for some advice on where to obtain some stock photo's and another member pointed me in the right direction. Maybe he could have sent me a pm rather than post the name of the company but I have seen plenty examples of other companies named in this way.

[Dennis]

Someone posted a link to a website selling carpet cleaning photos the other day, they look very professional and high quality in my opinion.

http://carpetcleaningwebsites.co.uk/Carpet-Cleaning-Photos/stock-photos.html

Who's nicked me hoses? 

[happy mondays]

Very good pics, much better than istocks, doing a couple of new websites myself might purchase some soon.

[Joe H]

As the op, i do think this post has gone a little off track.  I was genuinely looking for some advice on where to obtain some stock photo's and another member pointed me in the right direction. Maybe he could have sent me a pm rather than post the name of the company but I have seen plenty examples of other companies named in this way.

Feldon
There is nothing wrong in you recommending to me a company that gives good service.

If you were that company, then you are promoting self interest and thats where it is wrong. Rules of the forum.

A good example is John Kelly from Restormate. John contributes greatly to this forum, but does not promote the service he sells.