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Integrator Spotlight – AVTech Specialists
What started as a favor from an IT director for a co-worker turned into a full-time residential integration business that further evolved into commercial.
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A Vision for Team Success
Establishing a more effective vision for your business is easier than you think.
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Design Week: The Shade Partner Checklist
What to look for when you decide to partner with a dedicated motorized shading company.
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Design Week: The Time for Lighting Is Now
Lutron’s David Weinstein explains why homeowners need quality lighting systems and how integrators can get more involved.
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Design Week: The Design Whisperer
Navot Shoresh of Spire Integrated explains how he has made his company a valuable part of the design team for more than 20 years.
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6 Ways to Win Through Process
Process expert Jason Sayen and pros from ProjX360 offer tips on better managing your business.
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The Premium Standard: Enhancing Success with CEDIA
An integrator explains why he upgraded to the Premium CEDIA membership tier.
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Outdoor Week: The Growing Demand for Outdoor Living Spaces
How motorized screens and awnings are elevating smart home solutions and enhancing outdoor enjoyment.
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Fueling Growth
An introduction to EOS and how it helps companies establish a stronger foundation for future success.
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Embracing the Shift
The benefits and considerations of digital lighting for luxury residential projects.
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DALI-2 vs DMX: A Question of Control
How to determine which lighting control protocol is right for your projects.
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Companies to Watch 2025
Looking back at the year that was, with an eye toward the one coming up.
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Making a Name for Ourselves
CEDIA is leading the charge to establish “Technology Integrator” as a recognized occupation within the U.S. Standard Occupational Classification system.
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State of the Industry 2024
Our annual snapshot of how the CI business is doing and current product sales trends.
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Home Theater Week: The 2024 ADI Global Home Theater Product Guide
Check out the industry distributor’s best-selling or newly added home theater equipment.
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Home Theater Week Case Study: QAV’s Showroom
Colorado-based QAV invests in new L-Acoustics-based home theater at its Centennial showroom.
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Home Theater Week: A Demo Theater for Work and Play
Integrator — and music and movie aficionado — Michael Storch builds an immersive home theater demo room that he uses for personal viewing as...
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CEDIA Expo 2024 Preview: Getting to Know URC
Getting to know all about the venerable automation company as it prepares for CEDIA Expo with a wealth of products and new integrations.
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Shades Week: Why Diversity Matters in Your Shade Portfolio
Each style of automated shade offers distinct advantages, and the options are far from one-choice-fits-all.
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Shades Week: The Future of Sustainable Residential Systems
Whether for their own convenience or to increase the value of their property, homeowners are in the market for green technologies.
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Shades Week: Succeeding With Shades
Some perspectives on adding shade systems from two very different luxury CI businesses.
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Securing Tomorrow’s Homes
Navigating trends and innovations in smart home security.
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CEDIA Advocacy Update: Backing the Business
Around the clock and around the country, CEDIA’s advocacy efforts gain momentum.
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Resimercial Week: Revving Up Resimercial With Video Conferencing
Restaurants, bars, and small businesses want video conferencing and live streaming capabilities — and residential installers can lean on manufacturing partners to take on...
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Resimercial Week: 5 Tips for Residential Techs Doing Commercial Work
How technicians can make sure they are ready to take on light commercial projects.
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Watching Daisy Grow
The first nationwide custom integration franchise is quickly building momentum — and attracting top industry firms.
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Improvement by Design
Getting in with builders is so last year — here is why making inroads with interior designers can give your business a boost.
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2024 Technology Design Trends
There is an abundance of tech available today that is very easy on the eyes — even if it is not meant to be...
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Outdoor Week: Outdoor Ecosystem Tech Showcase
Some of the technology that can make the great outdoors even greater.
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Outdoor Week: Achieving Outdoor Shade Success
The GHT Group sees the category as a logical extension of its shade business and a huge growth area.
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Finding the Right Lighting Fixture Partner
With more companies recognizing the benefits of working in the CI channel, it is the right time to find a vendor that suits your...
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Bridging the Workforce Gap
One year after its debut, CEDIA NextGen is being used globally to empower and inform young people about opportunities in the smart home industry.
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The $75 Million Spec Smart House
AHT Global works with a Miami-based builder to create mega-multi-million-dollar homes that have no owners…yet.
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Companies to Watch 2024
Looking back at the past year to see where it puts us in the next.
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Lessons Learned From the Supply Chain Crisis
Crestron and its dealers share tales of survival and success from the tumultuous early ’20s.
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The State of the Industry 2023
With the rollercoaster of summer behind us, we take stock of where we stand.
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Federal Issues You’ll Want to Know About
A look at the areas of the federal government that have an impact on custom integration businesses.
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Educating the “Future of Tomorrow”
Kyri Androu of Electricus makes AV integration part of the curriculum for the college classes he teaches.
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Shades Week: Raising the Shades to Revenue
Motorized shades are the perfect complement to experiential AV. Here’s how to get started.
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Shades Week: Adding Instant Shade Expertise
Partnering with a professional shading company lets integrators painlessly – and profitably — expand their offerings.
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Shades Week: Shades in Action!
Two examples of the impact that creative automated shading systems can have on a residential space and a custom installation business.