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The Finish Line: Ways to Increase Value
Preparing your company to be sold — even if you have no intent in doing so right now — makes a ton of business...
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Tech Showcase: Business Software and Services 2020 [Updated 7/17/20]
Help for the less-fun side of being a residential AV integration dealer.
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Bowers & Wilkins In Talks with Sound United
B&W begins negotiations with Sound United to explore a possible combined future.
Blogs
How Writing Improves Our Thinking
Writing doesn’t just help us communicate ideas, it helps us shape our thinking to begin with. Here’s how.
Blogs
Working on Your Builder Base
How to build a relationship with builders and keep them as a partner.
Business Book Club
Business Book Club: ‘The Way I Heard It’ by Mike Rowe
Unknown stories of well-known people.
Features
How to Create a Simple Marketing Plan
An easy six-step process to make a 90-day marketing plan.
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Opening Up
Now is the time to think about what your business will look like as we navigate the new-yet-familiar post-pandemic world.
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10 Ways to Revitalize Your Business
It’s the right time to take stock of your company and implement some improvements.
Business Book Club
Business Book Club: ‘Goals!’ By Brian Tracy
How to get everything you want faster than you thought possible.
Blogs
Business During the Coronavirus: Applying for the Paycheck Protection Program Part 3
The voyage into the abyss concludes — or does it?
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What I Learned from Canadian TV
Show catches service professionals taking advantage of customers.
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Reinventing Your Integration Company
Fundamental product development practices to help your business be more adaptable.
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Striving for Normal During a Pandemic
Open for business, Crestron is supporting dealers as the residential technology industry navigates unprecedented business times.
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Business During the Coronavirus: Applying For The Paycheck Protection Program Part 2
The voyage into the abyss continues…
Behind the Business
Showrooms: Selling the Experience
A great showroom can create a memorable experience for customers — and open their minds to new possibilities.
News
New CEDIA Survey Aims to Gauge COVID-19 Business Impacts
Covers topics such as project bidding, ongoing jobs, impact on current operations, and near-term outlook.
Blogs
5 System Design Criteria for a Successful Takeover
How to provide takeover customers with the experience they are looking for.
Blogs
Business During the Coronavirus: Applying for the Paycheck Protection Program
My voyage into the abyss.
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Business During the Coronavirus: CEDIA Launches CEDIASTRONG Initiative
Offers new tools and programs to support membership during the pandemic and beyond.
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Business During the Coronavirus: Learning from the Past, Living in the Present, and Preparing for the Future
Revisiting “The Collapse You Survived” for today’s challenges.
Blogs
Business During the Coronavirus: How I’m Spending my Days
Tips on managing your time during the quarantine.
News
Almo Professional A/V Launches Almo Financial Relief Alliance
Alliance in partnership with Almo manufacturing vendors; offers additional 30 days of extended credit to qualified resellers.
Blogs
Business During the Coronavirus: Peacetime vs. Wartime
Changing your business practices to suit the situation we are in.
Behind the Business
The Art of Lighting Design
Veteran lighting designer Peter Romaniello, IALD, has some sage advice for AV integrators getting into the game.
Blogs
Business During the Coronavirus: Focus on What Can Be Done
Five things you can do to stay productive and sane.
Awards
The CEDIA Awards: Winning and Marketing
This year’s CEDIA Awards deadline has been extended to April 30, 2020.
News
Business During the Coronavirus: SmartHouse Integration Offers H.O.P.E to Home Based Businesses
New Home Office Preparation Executive program empowers small business owners to remain competitive and productive.
Blogs
Coronavirus — Update From The Field
Communication to clients, vendors, and employees during the coronavirus pandemic.
Features
The Power of Patience
In this hunt for self-improvement, the thing that has had the biggest effect on how I live and work is the effort I put...
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The New Essentials
For those of us in self-quarantine during this pandemic, we are learning who really are essential personnel in a true crisis.
Features
The Fallacy That Marketing Is an Expense
Marketing your business is a necessity, not an option.
Business Book Club
‘The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing’ by Al Reis and Jack Trout
Re-think how you see and do your marketing with this insightful book.
