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They say you can never be rich enough or young enough. While these could be argued, we believe you can never have enough resources. Therefore, we present for your consideration a wealth of sources for you to check into, check out, and harness for your own personal information blitz.
These sources are tidbits, ideas to get you started on your research. They are by no means the only sources out there, and they should not be taken as the ultimate answer. Research has been done on each company, but businesses do tend to move, change, fold, and expand. Please do your homework carefully, and then get out and start investigating.
Architectural Graphic Standards for Residential Construction by American Institute of Architects, Nina M. Giglio and Dennis Hall (Wiley, 2010).
Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity by James Gwartney, Richard Stroup, and Dwight Lee (St. Martin Press, 2005).
DeWALT Construction Estimating Complete Handbook (DEWALT Series) by Adam Ding and the American Contractors Educational Services (DEWALT, 2016).
The General Contractor: How to Be a Great Success or Failure by Joe Egan (Egan Publications, 2012).
The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don’t by Ken Fisher (Wiley, 2012).
Running a Successful Construction Company by David Gerstel (Taunton Press, 2002).
Start Your Own Business by The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. (Entrepreneur Press, 2015).
Construction, Remodeling, and General Contractor Magazine Websites
Constructor, www.constructormagazine.com
Engineering News-Record, www.enr.com
Free Trade Magazines, www.freetrademagazines.com
Modern Contractor Solutions, www.mcsmag.com
Remodeling, www.remodeling.hw.net
LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) Group
Associated General Contractors, subcontractors, www.linkedin.com/groups/1930563/profile
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—(800) 669-4000, www.eeoc.gov
Business U.S.A.—For general information, (844) BIZ-USA2, http://business.usa.gov
Internal Revenue Service—(800) 829-4933, www.irs.gov
Small Business Administration—(800) 827-5722, www.sba.gov
U.S. Department of Labor—(866) 487-2365, www.dol.gov
Workers’ Compensation—(866) 927-2667, www.workerscompensation.com
U.S. Department of Transportation—(855) 368-4200, www.transportation.gov
Bankrate, www.bankrate.com
Bloomberg Business, www.bloomberg.com
CNN Money, http://money.cnn.com
Entrepreneur, https://www.entrepreneur.com/
MarketWatch, www.marketwatch.com
Microsoft Service Network, www.msn.com
The Wall Street Journal, www.WSJ.com
My Rate Plan, www.myrateplan.com
Phone Scoop, www.phonescoop.com
PC magazine cell-phone reviews, www.pcmag.com/reviews/cell-phones
PhoneArena, www.phonearena.com
Websites 4 Contractors, www.websites4contractors.com
Contractor Talk—Professional Construction & Remodeling Forum plus blogs articles and product reviews, www.contractortalk.com
Listings and Places to Post Your Services
Angle’s List, www.angieslist.com
Serquest, http://serquest.com
The Good Contractors List, http://thegoodcontractorslist.com
1 800 Contractor, www.1800contractor.com
Sage One, www.sageone.com
AccounEedge Pro, www.accountedge.com
FreshBooks, www.freshbooks.com
QuickBooks Pro, http://quickbooks.intuit.com
Annual Credit Report—“The only source for your free credit reports.” Authorized by federal law, www.annualcreditreport.com.
Equifax
P.O. Box 740241
Atlanta, GA 30374
(800) 685-1111
Experian
P.O. Box 9554
Allen, TX 75013
(888) 397-3742
TransUnion LLC
P.O. Box 1000
Chester, PA 19022
(800) 888-4213
College Board—website to search for colleges and universities (www.collegeboard.org)
The National Architectural Accrediting Board, http://naab.org/home
American Institute of Architects, http://aia.org/
Society of Landscape Architecture, https://asla.org
ABET, www.abet.org
American Society for Engineering Education, www.asee.org
National Society of Professional Engineers, www.nspe.org
Design-Build Institute of America, www.dbia.org
Construction Industry Associations
The Blue Book of Building and Construction, http://thebluebook.com/links.html
The Home Improvement Web, https://www.homeimprovementweb.com/directory/Contractors/Associations/
Counselors to America’s Small Business, www.score.org
StartupBiz, www.startupbiz.com
Hootsuite, www.hootsuite.com
VerticalResponse, www.verticalresponse.com
Sprout Social, http://sproutsocial.com
Sendible, http://sendible.com
