It sounds cruel for a client to ask for your sample work approved and start working on your contract.

It sounds cruel for a client to ask for your sample work approved and start working on your contract.

Start working, then boom!! He sends an email; it is a waste of time: only to find my samples of your work on his website and try to convince you that it has been his 15 years of strategy. lesson learn

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  1. Anonymous

    Unfortunately this happens all the time. Next time watermark the samples and lock the document.

    Further, send him a cease & desist and demand he remove all use of your proprietary content.

  2. Anonymous

    Watermark, simple

  3. Anonymous

    Screenshot your work on his site and send it to him along with an invoice.

  4. Purity Mutiga

    that a nice one

  5. Anonymous

    Always include a watermark, a confidential disclaimer and block the ability to change anything by sending a PDF and password protecting your document. Anyone that is asked to provide a sample of their work during an interview process should do this as well.

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