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Working with Builders: Starting Smart
With builders looking to make homes smart right from the beginning, integrators get the chance to get in early and stick around.
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Business Book Club: ‘Getting More’ by Stuart Diamond
How to negotiate to succeed in work and life.
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What’s Your Ikigai?
Help your business grow by understanding its reason for being, and communicating that to clients and employees.
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Modular Solutions for Lighting Design Challenges
Five scenarios where modular lighting solutions can help achieve the client’s goals.
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Understanding Project Management
Project management — it’s not as simple as it sounds.
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Stream a Little Stream with Me
With the major services all offering some content with 4K video and immersive surround formats, consumers have good reason to upgrade.
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All Around with Meyer Sound
Gaithersburg, MD’s All Around Technology uses Meyer Sound’s pro-level Bluehorn System loudspeakers to elevate a luxury home theater to the next level in immersive...
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Business Book Club: ‘Leverage Your Mindset’ by Ricky Kalmon
Overcome Limiting Beliefs and Amplify Your Life!
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Is It Time for an Image Revamp?
Tips on how to buff up the way clients and trade perceive you in 2021.
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Planning in the Pursuit of Perfection
How theater designers can be involved in all stages of a project to ensure the room is exactly what the client wants.
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Managing the Zoom Boom
High-quality home conferencing brings in additional opportunities for integrators.
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Simplification Through Specialization
Try to be more purposeful about who you are and who you aren’t in an effort to attract your ideal customer.
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Illuminating Ideas for a Better Home Theater Design
Lighting plays a leading role in the look, feel, and performance of a home theater, so make sure to give it serious attention.
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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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Wireless Audio: SKAA’s the Limit
Meet the wireless audio standard that promises near-zero latency and eliminates compatibility issues.
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Hire Education
According to industry sources, the main problem we’re facing is finding qualified employees to add to our staffs.
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Where We’re At — the State of the Industry
What’s being spec’d, what’s being bought, and how business is doing compared to the pre-Covid landscape.
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Home Theater in the Spotlight
With the country’s attention finally turned our way, we have to make the most of the opportunity to provide next-level home cinema experiences.
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Why Audio Over IP?
Long used in professional audio applications, AoIP is now heading to homes.
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It’s a Wonder Wall
Future Automation & Design employs a Planar video wall to turn a luxury home’s large blank space into a work of art.
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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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Power [Quality] to the People
The country’s electrical infrastructure isn’t going to get better, so we need to prepare solutions for our clients.
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Business Book Club: ‘Emotional Intelligence’ by Daniel Goleman
Why it can matter more than IQ.
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Wired for Distraction
The real source of your difficulty focusing, and what you can do about it.
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Case Study: Innovative Design and AV Unite to Solve Seating Dilemma
This solution allows the projector to stay hidden in the soffit, completely out of the way of audience members, while exposing only a slim...
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CEDIA Expo 2020: Product Showcase
Some of the new products you ll find on CEDIA Expo's virtual show floor.
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Stressful, Crazy…and Wonderful
I have a tendency toward introversion, so solitude isn’t the worst thing in the world for me, but now I find myself missing the...
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‘Leadership Is Language’ by L. David Marquet
The hidden power of what you say — and what you don’t.
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The Art of Home Theater
A well-designed home cinema provides clients with a wow factor before any AV is activated.
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The Phantom of the Home Theater
Virtual speakers are no substitutes for ones that are properly placed and angled.
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Plan, Then Plan Again
Switching plans always brings with it a level of stress and anxiety, but also gives us a creative opportunity to rise to the occasion.
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The Evolution of Tradeshows
Current conditions have created a lasting impact on how we convene, learn, and receive product demos.
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Business Book Club: ‘Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology’ by Eric Brende
A life without tech? Why would one do such a thing?
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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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Video Marketing: See and Be Seen
How to use live video marketing to attract and engage clients.
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Tech Showcase: Integrator Toolkit
Some tools that can make life in the field a little easier.
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The Smart Home Buyer Journey
Do the purchase of smart speakers lead to a full smart home conversion? Parks Associates investigates.
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A Different Kind of Safe Space
How to create high-performance teams with belonging.