As you have probably read about here on Breaktime, Fine Homebuilding is planning to launch a newsletter geared towards the business of building. Fine Homebuilding’s Business Journal will be a monthly publication for residential contractors. We hope the first issue will debut this coming spring.
Included in each issue will be a department for business-minded tips, similar to “Tips & Techniques” in the magazine. I am beginning to compile a bank of tips for this column. Being one of our most valuable resources I decided Breaktime would be a good place to start searching for contributors.
Any tips that are published in the newsletter will be paid for and I would encourage all of you to submit your ideas. There is a wide range of appropriate information from the job site to things you do when you get home at night. Topics may include, but are not limited to customer relations, purchasing tools and materials, management, training, insurance, and accounting. If you are not sure that your tip is appropriate for a business publication, send it anyway, it may be suitable for the magazine (also paid for).
Please email your tips to me at [email protected]
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I hate to see this happen. This is a recent trend of publishers. They divide their magazines into little news letters and dilute the original magazine so that they can sell everyone several publications in stead of one good one.
Eh ya know in the case of FHB it's not really dilution at all. The coverage of business issues and ideas in FHB and FWW has always been marginal to none-at-all so I see this as a possible addition and expansion of their editorial content and coverage. If they made it part of their regular publication while sacrificing content from that there would be such a revolt and outcry that the Prospero change over would seem like a soft summer wind in comparison.
I'm looking forward to the new rag.
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I agree. It would be nice to have business related issues in FHB, but to diluts may sell more mags.
Guess that's why some of us read the "other" Journal.At my age, my fingers & knees arrive at work an hour after I do.
Aaron the HandymanVancouver, Canada
John,
Jerrald said it very well. The Business Journal will not dilute our content, because until now we have stayed away from business related topics. Although coverage of these issues has been requested, we have always felt that they are too narrow for our overall readership. The launch of this publication will not change the quality of FH. We hope it we be an equally valuable resource for the portion of our readers who operate businesses.
-Brian
so is the new pub free to subscribers?
Jeff
.......Sometimes on the toll road of life.....a handful of change is good.......
Well I think that just goes without saying Jeff.
Brian, thanks a lot and send me my free subscription when there ready.
Doug
Welcome aboard Brian;
Do those of us that are to thrifty for another magazine subscription have a chance a column from the business mag might appear in FH. If there is not room for all of the content, I am hoping you could pick some tid bits out for samples at least.
On another note, when are the magazines put in the mail, since I am still reading 149 I beginning to wonder if you guys forgot me. Probably coming on a canoe to Hawaii, so I can get used to waiting.
Dan
Sure!
Free subscriptions to anyone who makes an appropriate donation to the Taunton Press (or to my son's college fund).
Actually Jeff, I believe subscribers will be sent a sample issue when we launch the newsletter. After that It will be an independent subscription from the magazine. We plan to publish 12 issues a year and, as most business related news letters are, it will be more expensive then FH.
I won't try to convince you that it will be worth the money (it will). Just like the magazine, the quality of the newsletter will speak for itself.
By the way I was kidding about my son's college fun. (If you'd like to donate we'll have to talk about it elsewhere.)
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