Embrace Your Role Within the Market
Take pride in what you do and strive to be the best you can be to the extent your skills and market demographics allow.
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04, 2024
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04, 2024
Trex Named Most Sustainable Decking Brand
For the 14th year in a row, Trex Company [NYSE:TREX], the world’s largest manufacturer of high-performance, low-maintenance composite decking and railing, and a leading brand of outdoor living products, has been named Green Builder Media’s Sustainable Brand Leader in the decking category. Trex is the only brand in the building industry to win top honors in its category every year since the program started in 2010.
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03, 2024
Vista Railings Expands Distribution in the South
Vista Railing has expanded its distribution with the addition of Carolina Atlantic’s Greenville, S.C., location. The increased distribution makes Vista’s products available in South Carolina, Eastern Tennessee, Western Alabama, and Northern Georgia.
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03, 2024
TREX Ranked Among Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies for 2024
Trex Company [NYSE:TREX], the world’s largest manufacturer of wood-alternative composite decking and railing, and a leader in high-performance, low-maintenance outdoor living products, is proud to announce its inclusion in Barron's prestigious list of the 100 Most Sustainable Companies for 2024. In its debut appearance, Trex came in at #68 and is the only decking brand to be included on this year’s list.
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06, 2022
Contractors Need Two Phones
Not just another business expense, a second phone might be the best money you’ll spend, and may possibly save your family life.
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05, 2022
Brands Make Plans for New Instagram Tagging Feature
Instagram is officially doubling-down on its product tagging feature, recently announcing it will be rolling out the functionality to all users in the United States, no longer reserving it for just brands. Instagram has already well documented how an increased cadence of tagging increases a brand’s on-site conversion rate: Tag a product at least five times across a month’s time and almost double your purchases, per Instagram. But that only accounts for branding tagging their own products. What does it mean that now every Instagram user and creator in the United States will be able to tag a product? And how are brands preparing for this?
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05, 2022
Behind the LBM 100
Since we’re 100% privately held and are fortunate to have strong support from the LBM community, we’re able to do what we want. As it happens, what we want is to help you and other members of the LBM community build your business, your sales, and your brand. That’s what’s “Behind the LBM 100,” and everything else we do. As my friend Michael Beaudry, Executive VP of NADRA likes to say, “It’s about doing the right things for the right reasons, and having fun doing them.”
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05, 2022
New Website Offers Guidance on Treated Wood Disposal in California
Contractors working with treated wood, have a new online resource that will help you stay in compliance with state regulations. The online resource tools are attached and can be found at www.twwdisposal.org.
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05, 2022
LinkedIn Adds New Profile Links and Newsletter Promotion Options
LinkedIn has added a new option to showcase a link on your profile, along with new analytics tools for group posts, a video trimming feature on mobile, and new newsletter display options. First off, on the showcase link, which is likely the most useful element for most users.
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04, 2022
NADRA Garners ICC Code Committee Support on 15 out of 17 Proposed Code Changes at the 2022 Committee Action Hearings last week.
The NADRA Code Committee, represented by our consultant Glenn Mathewson and co-chair Mark Guthrie, were able to garner ICC Code Committee support on 15 of our 17 proposed code changes at the 2022 Committee Action Hearings held in Rochester, NY last week.