10 burning questions for metal fabricators and shop owners

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We journalists get it pounded into our heads early: Ask good questions.

Of course, even the most educated, open-ended inquiry can’t penetrate the mental fog of your typical high school athlete:

“So, what’s it like to beat your school’s archrival by 38 points in the playoffs?”

“Good.”

Note to self: Submit Burger King application tomorrow.

Normally, though, good and thoughtful questions get you where you want to go, whether it’s covering football for the local paper or polling the readers of a trade journal covering an ever-changing yet well-established sector of metal fabrication.

Speaking of which, we’d like to pose a few questions to you, both to get a feel for the current priorities of our readership and to understand better how you are dealing with the multiple market forces challenging your businesses.

So, in no particular order, here are the Top 10 Things We’d Like to Know About You. Please provide as many answers, in as much detail, as you can, and send them to [email protected]. We will publish your answers as a letter to the editor or in a follow-up article at a later date. Please let us know if you’d like your feedback kept anonymous:

I’m looking forward to reading your thoughts. Thanks for your loyal readership. I hope we can serve you for years and years to come.