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Avoiding Lighting Design Pitfalls
A look at some of the common challenges lighting designers face — and how to solve them.
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Your Voicemail Might Be Costing You Business
How to fix it so you and your company sound more professional, more human, and worth calling back.
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Working With Shades by Matiss
A veteran shade manufacturer enters the custom integration channel.
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From Browsing to Belonging: Turning Clients Into Community
When clients feel like they’re part of something bigger, they stick around — and bring their friends.
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Forget Your Feelings
Getting the results you want means paying less attention to how you feel and more attention to what you do.
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Blue Hair and Brilliant Minds — Rethinking the ‘Right’ Candidate
Sometimes the person with the “right” credentials is not the right person for the job.
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Finishing Strong
With the end of the business fiscal year — and the end of the calendar year — now is a good time to make...
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Purple Reigns: Music Lovers Make a Colorful Statement
Levina AV brings joy to hurricane-hit homeowners with a colorful audio setup from L-Acoustics that delivers on many levels.
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Choosing the Right Landscape Lighting Fixtures
The four key product characteristics you need to create long-lasting and effective landscape lighting designs.
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Make Your Brand a Stop-and-Stay Social Experience
In a sea of endless swipes, here’s how to hook attention, spark a connection, and turn casual scrollers into loyal fans.
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Home Theater Week: Managing Great Expectations
All source material is not created equal, and could have clients thinking their sound system is not performing as well as it should be.
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Home Theater Week: Sony’s Cinema-at-Home Vision
A discussion on the current state of the company’s home theater offerings and where they are going.
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Home Theater Week: Convenience, Comfort, and Community
Certified Sounds helps to create a smart compound on Maui that provides refuge and support in the wake of the August 2023 wildfires.
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Home Theater Week: Demos That Are Designed to Dazzle
Why Trinnov decided to create original trailers that offer a perfect immersive experience.
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Home Theater Week: The Ultimate Dual-Purpose Home Theater
Cobb Home Innovations creates a private cinema that doubles as a presentation space for the owners and their employees.
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Perfecting Personnel
Do you have the right people in the right seats to succeed?
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Comparative Insights From CEDIA Market Intelligence
CEDIA examines the growth, trends, and challenges in the professional smart home industry across Australia, Canada, India, the U.K., and the U.S.
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The Custom Integrator Playbook for the Next 25 Years
The smart home has become an established staple throughout the country — so what’s next?
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Relatable Beats Perfect: How Flawed Content Builds Unshakable Trust
In a world of paid influencers, filters, and flawless feeds, it’s the behind-the-scenes blunders and real-life moments that win hearts and new clients.
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I Read the Newsletter Today, Oh Boy
Thinking about how we consume delivered content — and how we create it for our audiences.
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Shades Week: Functional Style
The versatility of motorized shade design and functionality continue to make them a high priority for clients.
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Shades Week Case Study: The Full Aura Experience
In its new training center, ProSource shows members the impact that Hunter Douglas’ shade/lighting solution can provide.
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Shades Week: Growing from the Inside Out
Why turning a team member into a shade specialist is the best retention tool you haven’t tried.
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Shades Week Case Study: High-End Garage
James Condon, known as “TheStradman” to his fans on YouTube, uses PowerShades to create an ideal filming location while protecting his prized auto collection.
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Shades Week: You Don’t Sell Shades; You Manage Light!
How to upgrade your shades sales strategy beyond luxury installations.
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Lighting Design Do’s and Don’ts
What every integrator should know in order to create unforgettable spaces.
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The Unseen Engine of Operational Excellence
Leveraging the overlooked power of habits, routines, and processes to drive business results.
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The Perfect Exit
Why most business owners are asking the wrong question about exiting their companies.
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High-End Audio Week: Luxury Audio in Motion
How modern demands are shaping the future of sound.
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High-End Audio Week: It’s Not You, It’s Your Sub
Your subwoofer could be the main culprit in a disjointed audio experience.
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High-End Audio Week: Redefining Installation Standards
How toolless speaker design is evolving AV integration.
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High-End Audio Week: Upping the Audio Ante
Kansas City’s Naturally Wired goes all in on a new whole-home sound solution that was first experienced at last year’s CEDIA Expo.
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High-End Audio Week Case Study: Luxury Outdoor Living Experience
Concept Installations delivers a high-performance L-Acoustics-based sound system for an Ibiza villa, exceeding the homeowner’s requirements
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High-End Audio Week: Acoustics Made Easier
Created by pro audio professionals, REDIAcoustics takes the guesswork out of creating a great-sounding space.
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Showroom Spotlight – Crestron NYC Experience Center
The company’s latest showroom brings interior designers and clients inside a smart luxury Manhattan apartment.
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Leadership Lessons From Lindor
Management takeaways from the all-star shortstop for the NY Mets.