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Our ISE 2016 MicroSite is LIVE and Gary makes a pitch to try and convince you to go check it out! Is he convincing enough? Listen and let us know.

Vivitek EMEA will use ISE to launch new versions of its Novo Wireless Collaboration system including one aimed at digital signage. By ISE, Vivitek will have three versions of Novo — including one version that is capable of 4K video at 30fps. On today’s podcast, Gary was joined by Vivitek EMEA General Manager Holger Graeff who talks all […]

Welcome to the show and join the Crew Corey CB Moss, Johnny (Stuff n’ Things) Mota, Katye McGregor Bennett and Stacy Kringlen  as they welcome their guests: Paul Zielie – Manager, Enterprise Solutions at Harman John Greene – Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Advanced AV Just think, the story of your life – 1.3 billion dollars […]

It’s easy to let the complexity and unique nature of the systems we are working on determine the level of our excitement. How do you stay enthusiastic while providing small and simple solutions? Listen to this week’s Selling AV to find out!  

This is a can’t miss videocast as Gary is joined by CEO Nancy Knowlton who who talks about its Span system while a 40’ wide version of it is literally demo’d in the background. This is worth watching as it will convince you to be a dealer of Span’s if you aren’t already. The company […]

Rob Sample, regional manager for Anthem Electronics, speaks with host Johnny Mota about the fine electronics Anthem produces for the world. They cover Play-Fi, ARC (Anthem Room Correction), Dolby ATMOS, HDMI 2.0/HDCP 2.2, 4K support and the future of audio. All this and more on this episode of AV Insider. Listen to Episode 61 here! 

This week on AV Glue, we talk to Paul Harris at Aurora Multimedia about how his company is helping integrators fulfill today’s needs while still building their businesses on the technologies of tomorrow.  Streamline SKU’s, reduce behind the screen clutter, and get the link to a great new whitepaper just by tuning in for a […]

Gary was joined on his podcast today by Nureva President and CEO Nancy Knowlton who talks about the company’s ISE plans, including how a primary goal for them is to add dealers and distributors while in Amsterdam next month. Nureva’s Span Ideation System won rAVe’s Best of InfoComm 2015 Award and you can learn more about […]

Jane Johnson (@jane_pivot), managing partner of strategic communications at Pivot Communications, and Katye McGregor Bennett (@katyemcgregor), chief strategist at KMB Communications, speak with host Christa Bender (@AVChrista) about the surprise trends of 2015 and the potential trends for 2016. They discuss operating their businesses out of their bat caves and whether drones will be visiting […]

Gary was joined by Sam Taylor, Almo ProAV’s Executive VP, who explains that BOSE’s commercial AV product line will now be distributed by ALMO ProAV. Sam explains what this means to the ProAV market and how you can start buying the gear through ALMO ProAV. Here is BOSE’s official statement about the distribution partnership: Bose […]

Today’s podcast focuses on what Gary thinks is, so far, the best commercial AV product launched at CES.

Welcome to a brand new season of AV Power Up! Join the Crew Corey CB Moss, Hope BeerAndPie Roth,  Johnny (Stuff n’ Things) Mota and Katye McGregor Bennett as they welcome their guests: Cory Schaeffer – Director, Systems Solutions at QSC TJ Adams – Director of Installed Systems Product Management at QSC (how does that fit on the business card?) Joey […]

Gary’s guest today is ISE’s Managing Director, Mike Blackman. This year’s ISE will be the first, ever 4-day AV show and will take place in Amsterdam 9-12 February. How do you get people to stay for a 4-day show? Well, the keynote, alone, will do it as Dr. Michio Kaku (author of Physics of the Future) […]

Creating relationships with General Contractors is an obvious strategy for securing AV work.  Given that, everyone else is doing it too!  If you want to increase your chances of landing jobs with GCs, take a listen to this week’s Selling AV.

Rob Sample, regional manager for Paradigm Electronics, speaks with host Johnny Mota about all things Paradigm, its sister company Anthem Electronics and the combing shift in hi-res streaming products. All this and more on this episode of AV Insider.  

There is an interesting new blog on rAVe by Omar Prashad that coins a new term called “Scope Seep.” If you haven’t read it, check it out here. Based on that, this week on Selling AV, I thought I’d give some advice on avoiding the “free” trap.  Take it for a spin — it’s only […]

Have you ever heard of scope seep? I hadn’t until I read Omar’s blog! And I’m guilty of it too.

If you’ve hesitated to step into the next phase of video because you’re unsure about costs, technology or business case, then you need to listen to this podcast! As always, host Midori Connolly has hunted down the most interesting Subject Matter Expert she could find. Dusty Kraatz, owner and producer at XI Media Productions gives […]

Join Crew members Corey Moss (@Cbmoss) and Johnny Mota (@JMOTA3) and KMB Communications’ Katye McGregor Bennett (@katyemcgregor) as they talk about current stories in tech and rAVe Radio Shows – The WEEK (which they did together) as well as AV Power Up. They begin with three stories – as in the podcast show techXchange (27 minutes): […]

Real estate agents are highly sought after networking partners, which means that sometimes it is hard to establish yourself as their go-to AV expert against your competition. This week’s Selling AV gives you some advice on how to isolate the right agents and then give yourself the best chance to earn their referral business. Think […]

Join Host AV Christa Bender and the Crew Corey CB Moss, Hope BeerAndPie Roth, Vaddio Stacy Kringlen and Johnny (Stuff n’ Things) Mota  as they welcome their guests: Jan Sandri – President at FSR Cory Schaeffer – Director, Systems Solutions at QSC Marika Acquino – Technical Recruiter at Tier PM (and the Power Crew women double as guests too) Christa, the host who has been the most […]

Andy Moore, product manager at Arcam, speaks with Johnny Mota about the audio playback experience goal being simple: “make it sound real.” They cover all products from A&R Cambridge, more commonly know as ARACM. Johnny and Andy discuss two channel and multi-channel having the same goals in the playback experience — simply “pressing play…” Well, […]

Gary was joined today by InfoComm’s Senior Director of Development, Pamela Taggart, to discuss their plans at ISE in Amsterdam. With 3-tiers of educational offerings including 30 FastTrack (20-minute long classes) and 3-hour as well as half-day workshops, InfoComm is bringing the best of their professional development to ISE in 2016. Listen to today’s podcast […]

It’s important that you pay attention to the 4K products you’re specifying — do you know what they’re actually capable of doing?

A new company called Twist has an interesting take on the combo light/speaker for your home.

Join Host AV Christa Bender and the Crew Corey CB Moss, Hope BeerAndPie Roth, Vaddio Stacy Kringlen, Johnny (Stuff n’ Things) Mota and Hot Jobs Rich Prevete as they welcome their guest: Sean Brown (@SonicSean) Sr. Vice President at Sonic Foundry If by chance you haven’t seen it yet… Yes, it’s finally here and yes – it’s here too. On this […]

Do you want to trade referrals for AV work? Then you need to get out there and network with other trades. Tune into this week’s Selling AV to find out who the best networking trade partners are. Think of it as your five-minute sales manager.

Join Host AV Christa Bender and the Crew Corey CB Moss, Hope BeerAndPie Roth, Johnny (Stuff n’ Things) Mota and Hot Jobs Rich Prevete as they welcome their guests: Alan Vezina (@fancysandwiches) CTO at Jydo Ben Hackett (@benhnw) COO at Jydo Justin Watts (@paladinmachina) – Program Manager at Google Yes, if you are one of the many programmers in the AV […]

With the impending premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens here in two weeks, I thought it would be fun to explore the AV phenomenon that changed the whole course of the R​​ebellion… The Princess Leia hologram. Join me on a seven-minute romp through holography to explore whether or not we could build this with […]

Chris Kane, vice president of sales and marketing at AudioControl, talks with host Johnny Mota about new products from AudioControl (Dolby Atmos, HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2 compatibility) and how they started off in the audio industry with EQ. There are also a few teasers for new and upcoming products and a few more audio goodies you can […]

There are plenty of resources that offer to sell you construction leads, but are they worth the investment? Listen to this week’s Selling AV to get Mark’s take on if these lists are valuable and how to get the most from them. Think of it as your five-minute sales manager.

Host AV Christa Bender and (her co-host/sidekick for this show) Corey CB Moss welcome KMB Communications CEO Katye McGregor Bennett to talk about something that is very important to her as well as her company, which is the campaign that is being conducted by retailer REI, who announced in October it would close its stores […]