Editorial

Do You Know IP? By Jeremy J. Glowacki, February 3, 2012 Many residential integrators are lacking a fundamental technical skill that could be the difference between success and failure four years from now. According to predictions from the CEDIA Technology Advisory Group, if you don’t More..
Love Your Choices January 5, 2012 by Jeremy J. GlowackiThere’s really no one else in the custom installation business quite like Jeremy Burkhardt. He’s outspoken, outlandish, and maybe just a little rough around the edges. But he’s also the president of one of More..
Need a Remedy? By Jeremy J. Glowacki, January 3, 2012 My daughter asks a lot of questions. Five-year olds tend to do that, and I can already tell that she’s going to be as smart as her mom and a lot smarter than her old man. Although I can usually offer an acceptable (and More..
Business Makeover By Jeremy J. Glowacki, December 8, 2011 If you’ve ever felt like your integration company could go from good to great if only you had a few more management tools and the proper guidance, then there’s an opportunity that you won’t want to miss. A new contest, More..
Embracing Wireless By Jeremy J . Glowacki, November 8, 2011 A couple years ago there was a lot of fuss over whether NuVo’s Renovia or Russound’s Collage system would win the battle of powerline-based multi-room audio technologies. Unfortunately, even as our industry searched for More..
Steve Jobs' CI Channel Legacy By Jeremy Glowacki, August 25, 2011 The full impact of Apple’s Steve Jobs on the custom installation industry probably won’t be realized until two years from now when his contribution to Apple’s product roadmap will be wrapped up. Even then, I’m sure that the More..
CEDIA Digs Deep By Jeremy J. Glowacki, August 3, 2011 Time marches on, the world is a quickly changing place, and it’s no longer business as usual. Clichés like these have become a daily challenge for organizations like CEDIA that grew organically to serve an unique niche More..
Ceding Control By Jeremy J . Glowacki, June 1, 2011 “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” —The Wizard of Oz More..
Disney Magic By Jeremy J. Glowacki, May 3, 2011 Although I always thought that Disney’s Magic Kingdom was the quintessential theme park for kids, I could never quite comprehend why adults that didn’t have little ones in tow found it so fascinating. Then last month my wife and More..
Creative Destruction By Jeremy J . Glowacki, April 13, 2011 We couldn’t claim that we weren’t warned. “You are not going to like what I have to say to you today,” offered keynote speaker Tim Costello on the closing day of last month’s excellent CEDIA Management Conference in San More..
A Cure for the Winter Blues By Jeremy J. Glowacki, March 4, 2011 This year’s especially harsh winter has forced many of us around the country to spend extended periods of time cocooned inside our homes, drawing on our creativity to keep our kids busy and our own winter blues at bay. For More..
A Custom Commitment By Jeremy J. Glowacki, February 2, 2011 After last month’s International CES, it was clear to me that true convergence had finally arrived in the form of internet-connected TVs and mobile devices that can serve as content-rich digital sources and remote controllers More..
Not Gaga Over Google By Jeremy J. Glowacki, December 1, 2010 I’m completely opposed to the goal of world domination by anyone, except maybe the New York Yankees. Hitler? Not such a good role model. More..
A Tipping Point By Jeremy J. Glowacki, October 27, 2010 There’s never been a more challenging time to be a residential electronic systems contractor. With fewer and fewer high-margin products to sell, control touchpanel killers like the iPad and Android control platforms becoming More..
Speaking of Milestones By By Jeremy J. Glowacki, September 21, 2010 So I’m turning 40 this month, which I mention not as some cheap ploy to get presents from my friends in the industry, but more as a lazy writer’s segue into a story about a company that is also celebrating a milestone More..

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