There are many benefits that accrue simply from belonging – timely updates on state and local legislation, building and material rules and code changes; representation at formal and informal inspectors meetings, the privilege of meeting with your peers, educational programs, and much more. Your greatest benefit, again, is your networking and association with your peers, coming only from your direct personal involvement.

The reason is simple, and it involves the same principles that apply to one’s business.
A businessperson invests money, time and energy to make the business successful. The same holds true for Association membership, which will reflect on your business. There are certain functions and services which the Association can perform, but to be most successful in its efforts, the Association requires the physical, as well as the fiscal, support and involvement of its members. It needs the collective thinking of all concerned to formulate plans; and it requires the physical effort of its members to put those plans into operation.

Business consultants say eighty-five (85%) of all business failures occur in firms who are not Members of their Trade Association.

The problems facing our industry today affect every contractor, no matter how large or small. And, since no one individual could possibly begin to solve these problems alone, it remains that each should join in a collective effort to protect his business investment.

Membership in Plumbing Contractors Association provides such an opportunity.