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Taking Your Company Off Cruise Control
Times are good in the residential AV business, but they won’t stay that way forever.
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Outdoor AV Week: Working With Furrion
Better known in RV tech, the manufacturer of outdoor televisions and soundbars increases its reach into the custom install market.
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Outdoor AV Week: Live Entertainment in the Backyard
A pro audio solution from AtlasIED allows this homeowner to host outdoor concerts in his yard and have the music play throughout the property.
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Outdoor AV Week: Developing the JBL Stage XD Series All-Weather Speakers
A behind-the-scenes look at how Harman brought high-performance sound and sustainability to the harshest outdoor conditions.
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Outdoor AV Week: Outrageous Resimerical Case Study
Phoenix, Ariz.’s Positive Home Entertainment installs a Planar video wall in the O.H.S.O. (Outrageous Home Brewer’s Social Outpost) Brewery’s multi-use outdoor area.
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Outdoor AV Week: Southern Exposure
A newly constructed Baton Rouge mansion gets a well-connected outdoor entertainment system courtesy of Acadian Home Theater & Automation.
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Your Audience Awaits Part 2: Planning & Producing Your Video
From strategy to upload, here are our top tips for video production.
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The Key to Total Whole Home Control
Whatever interoperability standards such as Matter promise, the most effective total home control comes through professional integrators.
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Bad Management in Action
If you do watch 'The Recruit' and you recognize any business practices shared with your own, it is time to rethink and retool.
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Showroom Spotlight: SAV Digital Environments
This Bozeman, Mont., integration company’s gallery-like showroom displays the many possibilities that exist between tech and design.
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The Importance of Accountability
A dealer that focuses on accountability will inspire better performance from its employees and better bottom line for its business.
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What Job Are You Really Being Hired to Do?
Knowing and understanding the needs of your client is a vital part of the sales process.
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Showroom Spotlight – Savant SoHo
The company looks to amaze and inform NYC’s shoppers about how a smart home can transform their lives.
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The Benefits of a Profit Culture
Sharing profit information is key to getting the team invested and all rowing in the same direction.
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Why Aren’t You Selling Lighting Yet?
Two industry-focused sales professionals discuss the obstacles custom integration dealers face entering the market — and ways to overcome them.
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Future-Proofing Homes With AV-over-IP
With wireless networks constantly taking on new devices, hardwired Ethernet is the way to ensure signals get to where they need to go.
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Inspirational Electronics
After attending CES 2023, I was overtaken by a somewhat surprising feeling for someone leaving Las Vegas — hope.
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State Elections and What They Mean for 2023
Legislative sessions for the new year are starting soon — will you step up for your industry?
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CI Business Growth Patterns
How to optimize the custom integration business model to take your company to new heights.
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Luxury Week: Case Study – Invisible Tech in Central London
Finite Solutions provide discreet AV and smart home solutions to a partially developed smart home in London.
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Luxury Week: 6 Great Demo Movies for Luxury Home Theaters
Cineluxe picks a half-dozen films released in 2022 that can show what your high-end installs can really do.
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Luxury Week: Are You Experienced in Selling Luxury Private Cinema?
The process of selling true luxury home theaters is not the same as sales in any other market.
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Luxury Week: Lifestyle Tech and Design for the Luxury Client
An interior designer’s view on working with high-end clients — and the integrators they employ.
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What Does the Future of Marketing Look Like?
From conversational marketing to emotional engagement, here are a handful of top trends.
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Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned at Philmont
A 12-day trek through the rugged terrain can provide a lot of business lessons.
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Elevating Work-From-Home Experiences
Installers will be an integral part of professionalizing the evolving home office and achieving meeting equity.
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Sharing Is Caring
Altruism is certainly alive and well in the custom installation industry.
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Showroom Spotlight — Acoustic Design Group
The combined beauty of AV integration and lighting design is on display in this Scottsdale, Ariz., showroom.
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Are You an Advocate? (Plus, How to Be a Good One)
Why integrators need to advocate on technology issues throughout the legislative process.
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Companies to Watch 2023
Our annual look at the wins of the past year and what it means for the next 12 months.
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5 Ways to Send Meaningful Season’s Greetings
Relationships are a crucial part of any business, so, Season’s Greetings should be an integral part of your marketing plan!
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Certification Built by Integrators for Integrators
The more integrators that are certified, the stronger the industry becomes.
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6 Home Projection Trends
Two-piece projection systems have become top-of-mind with consumers looking to create the big-screen theater experience at home.
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Getting Started With Digital Advertising
Advertising online can be intimidating and overwhelming. This short guide will tamp down the fear so you can grow your business.
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The State of the Industry 2022
A look at the year we’ve had and a snapshot of where we are right now.