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Old 01-28-2009, 02:45 PM   #1
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What Is Your Favorite Contractor Magazine?

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Just curious what everyone's favorite Contractor magazines are?
Websites you can't live without?
Contractor News source?
Any other contracting media sources you look at regularly?

So far, my favorites are:
Magazine: Building and Construction Southwest and Southwest Contractor
Website: Contractortalk.com (of course!!), ezinearticles.com, I also like
Bobby Darnell's Blog, and Construction Marketing Ideas Blog.
Contractor News: So far I mostly only look at the sites above as well as
greatpossibilities.com (every once in a while)
Other: Well, I look at some industry twitter threads (sometimes they have
some good links to news or websites I might be interested in).

So, I just wanted to see if anyone can give me some suggestions on some industry sites/magazines/other to add to my favorites.

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Old 01-28-2009, 04:52 PM   #2
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Old 01-28-2009, 05:08 PM   #4
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Contractor Magazine?

Mellison - perfect response! Just what I was thinkin'...

What hits my mailbox each month:

Professional Deck Builder
Fine Homebuilding
JLC

I also get the free pub, Builder, put out by the NAHB. Not much of interest for me in there, but then again I'm not a GC dealing w/ building specs and neighborhoods.

Websites:
here
strongtie.com
Joist span calculator
OR '08 residential codes
WWPA tech guide
OR CCB (construction contractor's board)
timbertech.com

and every website for the products that I build with...

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That's a new one to me, Mac. I'm bookmarking it!

I've always used the charts.
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replacement contractor and qualified remodeler are my fav mags next to playboy of course
fav website contractortalk.com and r2rassoc.com and of course thehun.net
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Another good one is deck world and it's also free
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Old 01-29-2009, 07:45 PM   #8
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Construction Business owner. Period!! hands down!
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Replacement Contractor, though I wish they would pubish monthly....I think they just cut it down again to quarterly.....
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PM magazine and Job-site Plumbing and Heating Products are two of my favorites.
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Construction Business owner. Period!! hands down!
I agree...this is a good source for news, inspiration, and a good read! Anyone else read this magazine or visit the site constructionbusinessowner.com?

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