Management

Scenario #1: It’s a hot, sunny day and you’re out mowing your lawn. Suddenly, you feel an extreme tightening of your chest so severe...

One was just not enough.

Wayne Gretzky has been famously quoted for saying “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”

CEDIA recently hosted a “Train the Trainer” class for the CEDIA Outreach Instructor program (COI), which enables trained members to teach courses on a...

Before he joined Glick Audio and Video in south central Pennsylvania, Nick Cove was running cables for live sound–concerts and the like.

Adding Marketing Skills to Your Business Acumen for 2017

Recurring monthly revenue (RMR) has been a hot topic post-CEDIA 2016. Wondering where to start?

Residential Systems sat down with Monika Hill, project manager/system designer for Fusion Media Systems of Kirkwood, MO, to find out about the state of...

With the host of excellent tools available today, you can have your company copasetic in no time, leaving you free to do what you...

Chances are, you left CEDIA with a stack of business cards, and although you may have had the best of intentions to connect with...

Recently, while I was researching the growing sales of analog turntables, vinyl records, and analog two-channel systems, an integrator told me that he had...

For our new series of interviews with home technology professionals, Residential Systems reached out to Matt May, president of KMR Audio Visual of Fulshear,...

Your political representatives are just people.

Residential Systems recently reached out to Drew Harber, owner of Harber Home Theater, Norman, OK, (harberokc.com) to find out about the state of his...

Situated just off the coast of Miami’s South Beach on Star Island, a stretch of land that is home to some of the brightest...

The “third rail” of the consumer electronics and custom integration industry–a subject so hot that you’ll get burned if you touch it– is the...

As a business owner, chances are you spend your day making and executing plans.

As in any technical trade, continuing education is critical to maintaining a workforce of trusted advisors for end-user clients.

It’s his passion for pursuing the next big thing that seems to keep things fresh for Greg Margolis, whose 10-person integration company, HomeTronics, is...

In the day-to-day of your business, how often do you get to take a step back and really think big?

As a business owner maybe you can relate when it comes to staying in the green; it’s not easy.

Sometimes we try everything to please a customer and still fall flat on our faces.

We’ve heard it many times, and we’ve got research to back it up: building a team is challenging.

We’ve heard it said more than once that finding qualified talent in this industry is a struggle, especially at the entry level.

For some custom integrators, the road to business improvement has involved applying lessons learned about setting employee performance standards at CEDIA Business Xchange.

If you’re not including video games in your home theater demo rotation, you’re doing it wrong.

Getting a fresh look at your shop isn’t as hard as you think. Is it worth it? Actually, you can’t afford not to do...

Life is lived large in Los Angeles. From Beverly Hills to Manhattan Beach, to the glamorous star-studded Hollywood Hills, it is a film-industry town...