Industry Magazines who reads them and how do you find them?

What mag do you Read news & Events ?

  • Cleanertimes

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • E-Clean

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • Bulletin Boards

    Votes: 14 63.6%

  • Others Please List or Do not Care

    Votes: 2 9.1%
  • Total voters
    22
I know the UAMCC is working on attending larger trade shows of groups that would be considered potential customers like shows for property managers and the like. I think on a local level if members who do home shows set up a section of their booth to show benefits customers get from hiring UAMCC contractors that could help as well.
 
I'm surprised you guys read Cleaner Times. I always thought that was supposed to be for manufacturers and dealers.
 
Ben give me a call Sometime please
Benjamin said:
I know there is nothing illegal, I just know that Paul is the owner and is still very active in the PWNA. Considering I think the last fleet wash certification was down the street from my shop at his place, I would say very active.

Allison has to eat, pay mortgage, ect. I don't expect her to work for free, I don't work for free, why should she.

I guess my issue is that with the current ownership of eclean I am supporting something that I just can't. It would be like the owner of fleetwash owning a magazine, or somebody like that. Many guys here would not even look at the cover if they knew the profits went that way.

Just sayin.....
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I get window mags , stone mags, read pressure cleaning mags, been featured a few times for stories .Reading keeps you current . I read about surfaces . I get surfaces I think ( a mag).

Whats it take less than a half hour to read any industry mag? Any reading is good. You can't from an opinion if you don't read about something.
 
I have been reading the Cleaner Times but seeing the ads for the pwn* or an article about them all the time really gets old, obvious who is funding it. Same thing with most other mags out there, soon you will see who is paying for what and who says who or what the articles will be about instead of real journalism that is dying, it is all about who is paying for what these days in just about everything you read these days.

It would be nice to have an industry mag that talks about things that contractors want to read about, read articles that are not paid for by people behind the scenes, not read puff pieces by cheerleaders or mindless drones, read about the newest technology out there but not about companies we have not heard about, who is retiring in those companies we have never heard of and who gets the newest parking space or whatever in those companies we have never heard of, who wants to read about that stuff?

How are those worthless articles going to help contractors?

How are those articles going to help my business?

How are those articles going to help me increase my productivity or sales for next year?

I am sure there are some people out there that care about that stuff.....it is called company memo's for that company, the whole world is not interested in that kind of thing as it does not pertain to them, obviously they are running out of stuff to write about but cannot write about real industry issues as most of the industry is not paying for those articles or real journalism.

Gone are the days when writers wrote about things that are interesting, things are issues in the mind of the contractor, things that are going to affect contractors around the country.

I know magazines need to be paid for and writers need to pay bills also but come on, when what you read is nothing but cheerleading for an org that is only interested in making life harder for contractors by having their people go and send emails to regulators trying to manipulate them into tougher regulations for us, not listening to contractors or doing what the contractors want them to do then of what use is that org? Here you have mags praising the org (paid for praise) and articles talking about how great the org is but not telling the members or contractors out there the real truth of what the org is doing to them or plans for them.

It is really old and tired, time for some real journalism, real articles and real information, anyone out of deep pockets ready to step up to the plate yet? I did not think so.
 
When I first started in 2005 in this industry I read cleaner times. It was more geared to contractors then and I thought I would learn a lot. I learned a little instead and in the years that followed I noticed that the same info was rehashed over and over again. Then they changed to a more vendor focused and uhp mag. Again the content is pretty weak. I believe using contractors to wright articles rather than writers interviewing contractors is the first mistake in these publications. Also real investigative journalism would help present more info to the reader. Problem is the mags can't get big enough to support that kind of staff. I get more useful powerwashing info out of Cleaner magazine than any mag made specifically for us. Cleaner magazine is for sewer jetters and pipe remediation.
 
I read Cleaner, Mass Transit and a couple of waste water magazines. My wife recently looked at Cleaner Times and though it was a waste of time and paper. She has automatically renewed it every time it came up, and announced that after she read it, that she was not going to renew in the future, and now understands how come I seldom read it. I will glance through, but if I spend 5 minutes on the magazine, I would be surprised.
 
Rance said:
I like the idea of a UAMCC Mag Publication. Contractors writing about their specific type of work, problems they encounter with the solutions they came up with for that problem. Ins and outs to their work. There are a lot of topics to write about and maybe the Mag could start out monthly or even bi-monthly depending on amount of content. We have a lot of veterans in the UAMCC. If they were to get involved with this type of project I think it would be successful because the UAMCC is successful. Like Chris Chappell, I might be able to write about some things I have encountered since becoming a cleaner in the industry but not being a writer or very articulate with words, some editing would have to be done I'm sure. Tony S has it going on when putting "Life" into words. A very articulate and well educated man. The way he does this is very impressive to me. Hey some people have it, some don't. I don't! At any rate I think a UAMCC Mag would be very successful. Just my 2 cents.
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