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Does Your Website Measure Up? New Study Provides Benchmark

July 31, 2013 by Ted Leave a Comment

Graphic of Report TitleBy now, most of us in the TECH industry have launched websites to represent our businesses online. However, it can be hard to know just how your website measures up as compared to other small business websites – all vying for attention of the web “surfers.”

Now, a new and pretty comprehensive study of more than 6,000 small business websites has been released – and the results provide a benchmark against which you can see how your web marketing efforts measure up.

See an interesting infographic & how your website stacks up vs. the average small business… [Read more…] about Does Your Website Measure Up? New Study Provides Benchmark

Filed Under: Management, Marketing, News, Research, Strategy, Survey Tagged With: benchmark, BoostSuite, website

6 Steps to Ensuring You’re Replete with Rewarding Referrals

July 31, 2013 by Ted Leave a Comment

Graphic demonstrating One-to-Many conceptWhen we ask integrators or installers how they get business, we’ll often get the same one-word answer: referrals. This is not a huge surprise. But what is a little surprising is that when we ask how they go about getting referrals – we often get nothing but perplexed looks.

See our advice on how to find yourself replete with rewarding referrals below… [Read more…] about 6 Steps to Ensuring You’re Replete with Rewarding Referrals

Filed Under: Management, Marketing, Retailers, Strategy Tagged With: referrals

Uh-Oh, Consumer Adoption of Tablets Slows in Q2 CEA Says

July 29, 2013 by Ted Leave a Comment

Photo of 20-inch Panasonic TabletIn new data released today by the Consumer Electronics Association, consumer adoption of one of the hottest technologies in tech today – tablet computers – actually (and unusually) slowed in the second quarter of 2013. This unexpected downturn comes after several consecutive quarters of growth for a product category that the CEA itself identifies as one of the two major drivers (along with smartphones) for the entire electronics industry.

What does this unexpected downturn mean?… [Read more…] about Uh-Oh, Consumer Adoption of Tablets Slows in Q2 CEA Says

Filed Under: Associations, Industry Trends, Manufacturers, Marketing, News, Pivot Point, Research, Statistics, Survey, Tech Trends Tagged With: CEA, Consumer Electronics Association, Kevin Tillman, tablets

Thought for the Week – July 29, 2013

July 29, 2013 by Ted Leave a Comment

No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic

 

Filed Under: Quotations

Further Industry Consolidation as ‘Home Theater’ and ‘Sound & Vision’ Magazines Merge

July 25, 2013 by Ted Leave a Comment

Source Interlink LogoFinding themselves at the crossroads of two struggling industries – consumer electronics and traditional publishing – Source Interlink Media, the owners of both Home Theater and Sound & Vision magazines, has decided to merge the two properties into one entity. The combined entity will be known as Sound & Vision – apparently leaving the Home Theater name plate to the annals of history.

This pivot point provides a sad demarcation in a once vibrant competition. See more below… [Read more…] about Further Industry Consolidation as ‘Home Theater’ and ‘Sound & Vision’ Magazines Merge

Filed Under: Brands, General Topics, Industry Trends, Management, Marketing, News, Pivot Point, Strategy Tagged With: Al Griffin, Bonnier Corp., home theater, Joe Palanchar, Keith Pray, Mike Mettler, Sound & Vision, Source Interlink Media, TWICE Magazine

RTI Selects Tyler Nelson as National Product Trainer

July 24, 2013 by Ted Leave a Comment

RTI logoRemote Technologies Inc. (RTI) announced today that it has selected Tyler Nelson as its new national product trainer. Nelson will be in charge of creating and conducting product education and training for RTI’s dealers and distributor across North America.

See more on this new appointment… [Read more…] about RTI Selects Tyler Nelson as National Product Trainer

Filed Under: Brands, Management, Manufacturers, News Tagged With: Pete Baker, RTI

One Month After CE Week, CEA Cuts 2013 Forecast

July 24, 2013 by Ted Leave a Comment

CEA logoThe Consumer Electronics Association today released their updated forecasts in a report called The U.S. Consumer Electronics Sales and Forecasts – a semiannual report put out every January and July. The new forecasts show the CEA has scaled back their 2013 forecast substantially from the one released earlier this year, but still expect a small increase of just under .2% to $202.6 billion from last year’s $202.3 billion.

See more on this newly updated report… [Read more…] about One Month After CE Week, CEA Cuts 2013 Forecast

Filed Under: Associations, Industry Trends, News, Research, Statistics, Survey, Tech Trends Tagged With: 3D printers, Bluetooth, CEA, mobile devices, Shawn DuBravac, smartphones, tablets, wearables

Thought for the Week – July 22, 2013

July 24, 2013 by Ted Leave a Comment

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

 

Filed Under: Quotations

Does the Sound Pop’s Sound Really Pop? Or Is That Sound Just Their Bubble Bursting?

July 23, 2013 by Ted Leave a Comment

Photo of Sound Pop
Sound Pop on my desk.

When I first learned about AudioSource’s new Sound Pop – a small, relatively inexpensive (around $40 street price) Bluetooth speaker – I assumed it was just like all of those thousands of other Bluetooth speakers introduced over the last couple of years. You know: convenient, portable, maybe a cutesy design and…sounds like crap. Later, I got a press release and saw some specs. They look promising but, still, I remained…shall we say…skeptical.

Then, at CE Week last month, I met AudioSource’s CEO Tom O’Mara. He gave me “the pitch” and – perhaps sensing my skepticism – beseeched me to “Just listen to it” as he handed me a little box not much larger than a Rubik’s Cube.

See what happened when I “Just listen[ed] to it”… [Read more…] about Does the Sound Pop’s Sound Really Pop? Or Is That Sound Just Their Bubble Bursting?

Filed Under: Brands, Manufacturers, Marketing, Shows & Events, Strategy Tagged With: AudioSource, Sound pOp, Tom O'Mara

Prominent NY Metro Rep Firm Audio Associates Sets Expo for Aug. 12/13

July 18, 2013 by Ted Leave a Comment

Photo of Stockton Seaview Hotel & Golf CourseAudio Associates, one of the more prominent sales representative companies in the New York Metro market (and the Middle Atlantic market) has announced its annual dealer Expo is set for August 12 & August 13. The company has been holding this event every year for the last seven years and it has become quite popular with area dealers.

And this year, Audio Associates kicks it up a notch by holding the Expo at the posh Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club in Galloway, New Jersey near the ever-popular Atlantic City.

See more on this event including important sign-up deadlines… [Read more…] about Prominent NY Metro Rep Firm Audio Associates Sets Expo for Aug. 12/13

Filed Under: Brands, Manufacturers, News, Sales Reps, Shows & Events Tagged With: Audio Associates

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