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Who’s In Charge of Curiosity?
How to encourage out-of-the-box solutions to your company’s challenges.
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Creating a Culture of Learning
Stave off stagnation by encouraging your team to always be trying new things.
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Identifying and Serving VIP Clients
How to make sure your most supportive clients “feel the love.”
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Job Gone Sideways? Send Daily Recaps For the Win
How to rectify botched communications on a job.
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Show Up Like You Mean It
You don’t phone it in for your clients, and you shouldn’t do it for your co-workers either.
Features
Building a High-Performance Team Culture: Part 1
How to transition from solopreneur to effective team leader.
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How a 25-year-old Integration Company Transitioned to Daisy
Industry veteran Gordon van Zuiden opens up about his decision to convert cyberManor into a Daisy-led and owned company.
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Transforming Operators to Owners
Imagine a world where you’re not bogged down by daily operations, but are free to innovate and lead.
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Navigating the Economic Environment
Taking a look at the outside forces that have a huge impact on your business.
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Game Theory and the Art of Cooperation
Four simple principles for creating better business relationships.
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Daisy Adds South Florida’s FPA to its Growing Network
Marking Daisy’s eighth location, First Priority Audio strengthens Daisy’s footprint in South Florida market.
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The Importance of Data-Driven Decisions
By analyzing the right metrics, you can make better predictions and produce improved business outcomes.
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Breaking Down Your Sales Process
Seven steps for your sales team that should lead to more closed deals.
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Winning With BombBomb
Explaining your proposal to the client even when they ask you to ‘just email it over.’
Behind the Business
Resimercial Week: 5 Tips for Residential Techs Doing Commercial Work
How technicians can make sure they are ready to take on light commercial projects.
Blogs
The Three Most Powerful Words in CI
Have your installers learn the phrase that adds to more client upgrades.
News
VITAL Adds Three Members to Its Support Staff
The current expansion is due to new alliance partnerships, roster growth of CI integrator dealers, and new projects.
Blogs
Getting Caught Flat-Footed
How you react when you get blindsided makes all the difference for your business.
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Internal Referrals For the Win
Having subsystem champions in your company that you can recommend to clients lower the “jack of all trades…” perception.
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Focusing On Helping Others For the Win
Putting the spotlight on clients, employees, and even vendors leads to a more robust business.
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The Power of Accountability
When team leaders and employees are held responsible for their actions, the business runs smoother and performs better.
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Controlling the Controllables
When hard times hit, don’t waste time focusing on the things beyond your control.
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Embracing the Power of Positivity
How to expand the good vibes in your company while containing the negative ones.
Features
Creating a Profit Culture
Make sure your employees know how the company succeeds — and the role each plays in it.
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Protecting the Spec
If prospects aren’t saying yes to what your firm is suggesting, consider changing the structure of the conversation.
Blogs
Leveraging Tension in Your Business
When used properly, tension can create less work for managers and make for a happier, more productive workforce.
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Optimizing Your CI Business
How to conquer your current growth level before moving on to the next one.
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The Value of Professional Training
Virtual training programs play a key role in keeping integration staffs up to speed with the latest technologies and able to best serve their...
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Dealing With Overhead
Proper management of major operating costs can bring in additional revenue that can be reinvested in the business.
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Revisiting Sales Comp Plans That Work
A great plan rewards the sales team without putting the company at risk.
Behind the Business
Lessons Learned From the Supply Chain Crisis
Crestron and its dealers share tales of survival and success from the tumultuous early ’20s.
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Laboring Over Labor Efficiency
Optimizing tech productivity is a great way to gain insight into your company’s systems and identify problem areas.