Features
Home Theater Week: 10 Tips for Designing a Small Home Theater
The right seats, screen, and other accessories can make all the difference when building in tight spaces.
Features
Features
Home Theater Week: 5 Home Theater Trends in 2022
Personal cinemas continue to be at the top of clients’ wishlists — here is what they are asking for.
Features
CEDIA Expo 2022: What’s Your Show Plan?
To get the best ROI out of your show investment, you need a plan for every event.
Behind the Business
Making Your Voice Heard
CEDIA’s advocacy program works to monitor, track, and lobby on pending licensing legislation and regulations every day.
Back to Business
Hold Your Opinion
A simple trick to make better decisions by keeping your sense of personal pride on the sidelines.
Features
Showroom Spotlight — Hi-Fi Centre
How this Vancouver, British Columbia, high-end audio shop effectively shows off a ton of gear in a modest-sized space.
Behind the Business
Finding the Right Shade Partner
It is a good time to jump into this growing product category — find out which vendor is right for your business.
Features
Case Study: Small Room, Extremely Large Screen
Two installation firms create an epic home theater with a 324-tile LED video wall, $500K worth of video equipment, 200 amps of protected power,...
Back to Business
Stepping Up Your Service
White-glove treatment requires dedicated staff and clear-cut processes — is it right for your business?
Features
Tradeshow Prep and Planning Tips
Planning ahead is always a great best practice. Here are some beneficial ideas with events like CEDIA Expo on the near horizon.
Features
Maybe Even a Great Steer
After more than 65 years of serving the area, the Good Steer decided to close its doors for good on a recent Saturday. It...
Features
6 Ways to Improve Your CI Business
Industry vet and consultant offers tips and ideas for integrators to increase their bottom lines.
Features
The Big Two: Gross Profit and Payroll
These two levers ultimately determine the success or failure of a CI business.
Features
Are You All In to Win?
Going all-in with the design/build community means making them feel welcome with your words, website, and work.
Features
Delivering the Ultimate Professional Private Screening Room
Why you need to include the customer in the development of the ideal home theater experience.
Behind the Business
Digital Art and the Role of the Integrator
The options for digital canvases go further than just flat-panel tech, projector mapping, and video wall.
Back to Business
Should You Become an Electrician?
Looking at the pros and cons of adding electrical services to your company.
Features
Dad, the First Voice Control
When I was a kid along with my four siblings, my dad definitely had voice control way before it was trendy. Or even invented.
Features
Changing the Power Dynamic
Savant provides solutions for all homeowners and their dealers to fully take charge of their energy management and control.
Features
Smart Lighting and Climate Change
Why it’s time to stop fussing about turning off the lights and let automation take over.
Features
Showroom Spotlight — The Loop
The third time is the charm for this evolving space in Boise, Idaho.
Features
Pulling the Right Profit Levers
Managing mix and margin properly leads to greater success in revenue, profit, and cash.
Features
Case Study: A Recent Retiree’s Dream Room
Bravo AV breathes new life into a New Jersey home theater with Meridian Audio speakers and processing.
Features
How Relevant Is Your Brand?
How to make your brand stand out amid a sea of competitors vying for your customers’ attention.
Features
Unfairly Maligned
Every trade upsells their clients — a practice that seems to be acceptable to the community at-large — so it feels unfair for CIs...
Behind the Business
CEDIA Workforce Development Goes Local
Why CEDIA is working to create meaningful workforce development by building an army of local member volunteers.
Features
Building the Best Team
It takes an incredible amount of talent and professionals to create the right private cinema experience.
Features
Why and How to Align With Window Covering Professionals
They’re more tech savvy than you might expect.
Behind the Business
Talking to the Trades
How to make sure architects, builders, and designers know who we are — and make sure we deliver what they need.
Features
More Profit = More Solutions
How to figure out how much profit your company is really generating.
CEDIA Show
CEDIA Expo 2022 Preview
Emerald Expositions, the show’s producer, offers a taste of what to expect in Dallas this fall.
Features
Jump Out of the Nest and Soar
Getting out of your comfort zone can bring sudden and unexpected opportunities.
Behind the Business
2022 Showroom Showcase Gallery
A quick look at some innovative demo spaces from across the country.
Behind the Business
Scenes From a Showroom
Automated sales scenes highlight EOC Audio’s new 2400-square-foot demo space.
Features
Keeping Score for Your Business
How to better analyze your successes through the necessary evil of accounting.
Features
The Tale of Billy Joel’s Sigh
There is one tune that is always on the setlist, whether he likes it or not.
Features
Design & Construction Week — A Call to Action
The custom-install industry is (still) only minimally represented at the KBIS and IBS shows, and we need to change this, fast.
Features
How Dealers Can Find Success in 2022
Distributors offer tips on keeping your business growing despite supply chain issues.
Features
Using an Apple Watch for Home Control
The Apple Watch has finally evolved to the point where it is an effective interface for home automation.