Features
Features
Best Buy and the Client Experience
Surprising lessons from an unlikely source about the power of long-term vision.
Home Theater
So You Think You Know Kaleidescape?
There is more than meets the eyes and ears with the popular CI choice for home theater content.
Home Theater
Full Circle Sound
WSDG - Walters-Stork Design Group applies the lessons learned in building world-class recording studios to ultra high-end home theaters.
From the Editor
Taking on Amazon
Whether it is in their capacity as consumer electronics retailer or content producers, Amazon takes a good deal out of the markets, and the...
Going Forward
How to Train Your Integrators
Vincent J. Bova, dealer experience manager for RTI, discusses the company’s goals and the future of its recently launched multi-tiered training program.
Marketing
How to Use Storytelling in Your Marketing
Seven steps to creating the right story for your business.
Business Book Club
‘101 Questions Everyone Should Ask’ by Paul Angone
A book filled with things that will make you go “hmmm.”
InterNetworking
Reflections on 20 Years of Networking the Home
It’s been a long road from session-based internet connections.
In the Field
Case Study: Video Lifestyle
Utah’s Tym uses Just Add Power’s Ultra HD Over IP system to create video distribution that offers wide flexibility to accommodate client needs.
From the Editor
Scores Over Crashes
Home theater's emotional impact can be as impressive as the visceral ones.
Home Theater
A Battle Royale for Home Entertainment
Video game content creators can provide a new dimension to your business.
Theater Design
The High-End Audio Artist
David Frangioni, owner of Audio One, tells how he does it all from professional recording studios to high-end home theaters and whole-house automation systems.
Home Theater
Rayva in Reality
Elevated Integration installs a Rayva home theater and gains a valuable new client.
Marketing
Storytelling: The Key to Successful Marketing
Make the benefits of your services clear by telling the right story.
Features
The Righteous Mind by Jonathon Haidt
This book might just change the way you look at your business — and the world.
Marketing
How to Build Credibility and Trust
Five ways to start earning your new client’s trust as quickly as possible.
In the Field
Supercharge Revenue By Increasing Your Average Sale
How to increase sales from clients you already have.
Features
The Goal – A Process of Ongoing Improvement By Eliyahu Goldratt
What can the laws of physics tell you about business? Plenty.
Features
Aging in Place: A Primer
Aging-in-place integrations offer their own sets of challenges — and opportunities. Here’s an overview.
Management
HR for Integrators
What every residential integrator and business owner needs to know to manage and care for their staffs.
Technology
Projectors and Screens
A look at the latest technology and trends heading for home theaters.
Technology
Tech Tip: Know When to Sell What Projector with Which Screen
Answering these questions will enable you to choose the right projector, in addition to the size, aspect ratio, screen material, and format of your...
In the Field
Smart Above and Golf Below
How Source Home Theater worked with their client to exceed expectations, get additional work, and build an award-winning install.
Home Theater
IMAX Enhanced Investigated
Pulling back the curtain on exactly how IMAX and DTS — along with partners Sony and Sound United — plan on bringing IMAX quality...
Features
Inside Panduit’s Acquisition of Atlona: ‘It’s All Positive’
Atlona's CEO Ilya Khayn and Panduit's vice president of enterprise business Tom Kelly shared their views on the recent deal.
From the Editor
Quick CES Observations
A few reflections of the tech and trends experiences at 2019 CES.
Home Theater
Where Do We Go from Here?
Why we need to focus on the high-performance and luxury aspects of our industry.
Features
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
Can this book help you achieve peace and happiness? Probably not — but it can improve your outlook.
Marketing
Commonly Overlooked Ways to Generate Leads
Five tactics to help you bring in more clients.
Features
WiCT Wednesdays: April Feller
April Feller discusses starting her own business, overcoming obstacles, the importance of family—both at work and at home.
From the Field
Getting Secure in Security
Todd Sandler of Kansas City’s Naturally Wired tells how he introduced security into his AV business, and how it has evolved since.
Going Forward
The Future is Interactive
How Josh.ai plans on changing the way consumers interact with their smart homes.
Management
The Importance of Soft Skills
Do you have the training and skills necessary to be an effective leader?
Behind the Business
How Are You, Really?
Business owners and managers need to be aware of their employees’ mental health.
Features
WiCT Wednesdays: Bridget Karlin
Bridget Karlin of IBM discusses leveraging AI as a disruptor and inspiring others.
Features
WiCT Wednesdays: Melissa Andresko
Melissa Andresko of Lutron talks about surrounding herself with smart, inspirational people.
Features
WiCT Wednesdays: Jennifer LaBollita
Jennifer LaBollita discusses her work in the consumer tech industry.
Features
WiCT Wednesdays: Tiffany M. Moore
Tiffany M. Moore of the CTA discusses the driving factor behind her passion for innovation.
Going Forward
Key Trends in the Smart Home
Parks Associates offers research into where the connected home will be heading in 2019.
Features
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
Finding the Why in your company can flip your business practices upside down, resulting in an entire new and powerful focus.
Features
Joel Silver and the Science of Images
A conversation with the winner of CEDIA’s 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Features
All Time Lows
The latest breed of subwoofers finds new ways to bring the bass indoors, outdoors, and in confined spaces.
Features
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.
Technology
The Evolution of Pyng
Crestron Pyng has been a game changer for The Source Home Theater…and Version 2.0 is about to take it to a whole other level.