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Before becoming the owner of Guardian Roofing and Windows in Tacoma, Wash., Aaron Santas worked as a branch manager for a major construction materials distributor. Santas worked closely with a lot of contractors, and he found out that the successful ones had something in common. “Successful contractors watch their numbers, and they know them intimately,” he said. 

A few months back my good friend, roofing contractor Tom Scribbins, approached me with an idea for a feature he would like to write for Roofing Contractor about the Better Business Bureau.

We have started a “Moving On” micro-site that will collect brief success stories from our readers. A recent Moving On feature is from Matt Spanton, and Matt will be our speaker at our next webinar at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 18.

Allen Lancaster, the current president of the National Roofing Contractors Association, updated Best of Success attendees on NRCA. “In a tough economy, there’s no shortage of issues,” he said. “My hope for the year 2011 is that we finally get a Congress that is business friendly.”

Not! The old laptop has been dying a slow death for the last year or so, and I thought it best to order a new unit in advance of its demise. 

Mark your calendar. I am marking mine. July 6, 2016, is when I will be able to write my complete and unabashed thoughts on changes coming to the supply chain in the roofing industry. 

Whenever pro-amnesty groups would claim we need illegal immigrants to do the work U.S. citizens do not want to do, my blood would boil.

There are so many great things to write about this beautiful Saturday morning. There was a moonset on the way out and a sunrise on the way back from my early-morning run. There was that email from our group publisher, Jill Bloom, yesterday announcing the new micro-site, Moving On (www.bnpmedia.com/movingon), which was set up to report on contractors who are moving on beyond all the bad news and recession talk. The stock market completed another mostly positive week and Mom is up visiting from Jacksonville. Life is good. 

Greg Hoffman is President and co-founder of Roofing Contractor Marketing, a company specializing in marketing and advertising for roofing contractors. (Despite the similarity in name, the company is not related to our magazine.) 

The December 2010 issue of Roofing Contractor magazine will have a breakdown of over a dozen speakers who attended the Best of Success (BOS) conference held in September in Denver.