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  1. So this is kind of sad but XLADV is currently involved in a bit of a spat with Upshift Online and one of their photographers, Tim Burke. But for some background, let me fill you in. So I was supposedly on good terms with Tim via mostly Instagram since I don't know when; maybe 5 years? I shared his content, helped him get his moto fixed and back on the road quickly after an accident in Peru had him thinking his trip was over, helped him go after accounts sharing his content without attribution, helped him sort out his service with SPOT, etc... He seemed very grateful to get that help too. Then about 3 years ago he seemed to sour on me. He'd made a negative comment on a FB post of mine which I thought was odd but then a few months later it happened again. After that I just blocked him on both FB and probably IG too. As for Upshift Online, I've always had good relations with both Chris Glaspell and Simon Cudby (Simon has since left), the two founders. Chris paid me the highest compliment I'd ever received by telling me "I've never seen anyone in the moto industry build a brand as fast and big as you have with XLADV." They also covered our May 2018 Mojave Rally, our volunteer work in Colombia with Motorrad Angels and maybe a few other things. Okay so they other day I shared a photo from Dunlop (an XLADV ad client) to our IG feed. The photo credit was Tim Burke's/Upshift Online's and I did give them both credit. But a day later I got a message from Brandon at Upshift telling me to take down the photo and ask for permission next time. Okay. I responded that Dunlop (who gives them free tires and may advertise, I don't know) has been an ad client for 3 years. Guys... we're on the same team here. Nonetheless, I did delete the photo. And then... I get 5 "copyright violations" that night from Instagram for me having shared photos of Tim's girlfriend, nattplu, 4 years ago! A few questions.... For one, she was happy to get the attention (in 9 years and nearly 9,000 posts only 2 have asked me not to share their content), had even used my hashtag (as did Tim and it's still on his posts) so why didn't she have a problem 4 years ago? Why now? Why didn't she simply ask me to delete? It's like your neighbor loaned you their lawn mower four years ago then yesterday the police show up asking you questions about "stealing" your neighbor's mower. So now my account is in jeopardy of being shut down for this. And... I was going to make sure everyone knew about it. I do understand copyright protection and am sensitive to photographers having their work used without permission, citation of credit and/or payment. But it's also a shared interest here (Dunlop); it's social media and stuff goes viral. When it does, 99.9% of people are happy about it. You can share whatever you like on FB and Twitter; IG too pretty much. As a result, I got a huge amount of supportive messages and comments as well as eyeballs and we gained 3,000 followers in just one day which makes me feel a bit better about this. Many came out of the woodwork both publicly and privately to share their experiences with this crew but I won't get into that. I've had more than my share of spats like this and I hate going public with them but when the IG profile gets threatened, I feel a need to respond. I hope we can come to a resolution but not feeling great about it. Another thing... I'm not unique in this situation. Upshift Online does this to anyone sharing their stuff. But let's look at some numbers... Domain Authority score is an SEO measure of basically how prominent your website is. ADVMoto's is 58. ADVPulse is 52. XLADV (an otherwise "dead" forum) is 43. Upshift Online's is 41! We hav 186k IG followers to their 72k. That's not a great place to be, nor in my opinion is it a wise strategy to win more followers. My advice would be spend more time building your business than making enemies.
  2. Cool video on a new custom built 1290R by Rottweiler Performance
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