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The Best Thing You Could Do for Your Business: Form an Advisory Board

Want to ensure your business succeeds? Here are four tips for a killer advisory board that you need…

Inside Maverick Integration’s New World-Class Showroom

Maverick Integration's new showroom in Nashua, N.H., features vignettes featuring Bang & Olufsen, Lutron shades and Millson Custom…

How Tracking Technicians’ Time Helps Calculate Your Hourly Labor Rates

Using time-tracking software enables integrators to determine employee utilization rate to help set your hourly rates, but integrators…

Maverick Technical Institute Ready for Students

Maverick Technical Institute (MTI) in Nashua, N.H., opens its doors for student enrollment for its focused 1,100-hour hands-on…

How to Pick a Time-Tracking App … and Get Technicians to Use It!

3 key considerations to help you choose the right time-tracking app. Plus, what are the best ways to…

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8 Proposal Metrics Most Integrators Forget to Track

Integrators rarely, if ever, sell large projects without proposals, yet many CE pros do not routinely ask these…

I Blame Circuit City for the Tech Labor Crisis

The lack of skilled labor crisis facing the custom electronics industry is rooted in the demise of the…

2 Big Reasons You Should Really Be Tracking Your Time (and How to Get Started)

The source of revenue is drastically different in a services vs. projects model, so cost tracking needs to…

31% of CE Pros Have Taken a Stab at Commercial Projects and Here’s Why

Professional Audio Associates owner Lew Freedman, a Class of 2014 CE Pro Master, encourages his residential clients to…