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Challenge and Solution: Showroom Location and Type
Two CEDIA Award–winning integration firms offer their advice on where to put a showroom — and how to use it effectively
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Defining Wellness for Custom Installers
Health and wellness is marked as an industry growth category, but what does that really mean, and how can integrators get involved?
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Finding the Right Smart Security Partner
It’s good business to add this product category — which has shown to be a gateway to expansive smart home systems — to your...
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Understanding Project Management
Project management — it’s not as simple as it sounds.
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Companies to Watch 2021
A look back at the wins of the past year and what it means for the next 12 months.
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A Healthy Market for Wellness
With Covid-19 shining a light on health and longevity, the health and wellness market looks stronger than ever.
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What Happened to Portal.io?
After a tumultuous couple of years, the popular business software finds itself on solid footing.
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Tech Showcase: Integrator Toolkit
Some tools that can make life in the field a little easier.
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Need to Know: New Tech Check-In
We’ve been told that 8K, 5G, and AI will change our lives and our businesses, but when’s that going to happen?
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Showrooms: Selling the Experience
A great showroom can create a memorable experience for customers — and open their minds to new possibilities.
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The Art of Lighting Design
Veteran lighting designer Peter Romaniello, IALD, has some sage advice for AV integrators getting into the game.
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Building Constructive Relationships
How to grow your custom install business by establishing relationships with building professionals.
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The CEDIA Podcast: Surveillance
Highlights from our conversation with ETC’s Michael Cogbill.
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Companies to Watch 2020
Success stories from throughout 2019 point to big things for the industry in 2020.
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The Business Side of Josh.ai
Here is what you need to know if you want to add the innovative brand to your product offerings.
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Mitchell Klein: Always Something New
A profile of the 2019 CEDIA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.
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Building the Next Generation of Technicians
Tackling workforce development with the CEDIA Electronic Systems Integration Technician Training Program.
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Here Come The Smart Appliances
They will soon be arriving to a home network near you — and here’s why you should care.
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Case Study: Show and Sell
Sound Effects in Mesa, AZ, upgrades its home theater demo with AudioControl.
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How Are You, Really?
Business owners and managers need to be aware of their employees’ mental health.
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Joel Silver and the Science of Images
A conversation with the winner of CEDIA’s 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award.
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2019 Companies to Watch
A look at some of the custom integration successes from the past year — and how they set up the industry for next year.
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New Takes on Tech Training
Technology keeps changing, and so does the way we learn about it.
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Construction Monitor Announces Real-Time Building Permit Mapping Application
First-time CEDIA Expo exhibitor to show tool that visually displays where all new homes, remodels, and commercial properties will be built at booth 2800.
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Simply Reliable Releases New smartOFFICE Features
Now includes proposal sharing, zero setup, and data exporting designed as a process workflow solution.
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Massachusetts AV Firm is a Family Affair
Three Brothers Combine Talents to Lead Inspired Technology and Communications in Easton, MA
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21st Century Distributing Talks Commercial Crossover
Q&A With PowerHouse Alliance Member on Diversifying Your Work
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PowerHouse’s White Label Line
The PowerHouse Alliance will soon launch its first white label line to help its collective of 12 distributors provide more price options and profit...
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Two Years of Origin Acoustics
At CEDIA 2016, Origin celebrated its two-year anniversary with new partnerships and nearly 40 new products. Residential Systems reached out to Burkhardt to learn...
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James Loudspeaker’s Custom Niche
There’s so very little “custom” manufacturing being done in the custom integration business these days that a company like James Loudspeaker really stands out.
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The DaVinci Group: A Better Partner
The DaVinci Group has been thinking outside the box when it comes to forming partnerships to distribute its high-end audio products.
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CEDIA Tech Teasers
Excitement is building with EXPO 2015 just weeks away, so Residential Systems sat down with several of the industry’s most high-profile manufacturers to find...
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Control4’s Miguel Perez Talks Customer Satisfaction
Control4 has been putting in a lot of work lately to improve its dealer and end-user training to deliver the best results possible to...
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Q&A With Thiel Audio’s New CEO John Wittman Addresses Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
In July, Thiel Audio announced that it would be making big changes to its organization, as part of an effort to revitalize the legendary...
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New Owners of Richard Gray’s Power Company Blend New and Existing Technologies
AV systems have changed dramatically over the last several years, and because of their robust functionality and advanced technologies, they are far more sensitive...
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Atlona CEO Ilya Khayn Reflects on 10-Year Anniversary
Atlona offers a portfolio of audio-video connectivity products that serve a range of residential and commercial applications, from multi-room AV distribution and custom home...
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Baldwin, Kwikset Wireless Locks Offer Personalized Luxury
In light of a recent John Sciacca blog metaphor that automated door locks represent “the tip of the automation iceberg” that is going to...
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RTI’s Two Decades in Control
Control systems manufacturer RTI celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, in part, by hosting the 2012 RTI Global Partner Summit, which welcomed some of...
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Tech Tools of the Trade
Platinum Tools launched its new VDV MapMaster 2.0 voice, data, and video tester to the CEDIA market during the 2012 CEDIA EXPO, held last...
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Boosting Your Signal
Consider this scenario: your high-net-worth client, for whom no expense is ever spared, hears his cell phone ring and immediately runs outside to answer...