Your Input Drives the CSI-Annual & Market Report—Join Us

Originally Posted as Industry Insights Start with You: Take the Fall Survey

Welcome to autumn. This season includes a lot of work to get ready for winter and the new year. All of us here at Shield Wall Media are asking for a little help with one of those fall tasks, and it doesn’t involve a rake.

This will be the third year for our CSI-Annual.

The CSI-Annual is where we compile industry data from our proprietary survey and other sources. We share this in the form of a book with all of the subscribers of all of our magazines and send roughly 2,000 additional copies to shows and events. We provide you with this industry data free of charge. That is in addition to our magazine subscriptions, that you also do not pay to receive.

As a little “inside baseball” between the survey, printing, mailing and writing the CSI-Annual & Market Report, Shield Wall Media invests a little over $50,000 to get you this information.

If you would like to sponsor the book, we would love that. But, that is not what I am asking for.

I am asking that you check your email and take the survey. This costs you nothing but a few minutes of your time. The survey is anonymous, so you are not sharing any proprietary information.

Last year we increased the sample size by approximately 40% and received over 3,000 responses. We would like to go over 4,000 this year. Across our titles we have about 100,000 subscriptions so that should be achievable.

Please consider this a guilt trip. If you read our CSI-Annual and don’t take the survey remember your peers did something you did not, to improve and help grow our corner of the construction world.

Help us help you. And, if you would like to come to Waupaca and rake leaves, we can give you a pass on taking the survey.

So you know what we are looking for, here are a few of the questions that will be on our survey, with the answers in the CSI-Annual & Market Report (mailing at the end of Q1, 2026):