by Tom LeBlanc | Aug 1, 2018 | News
Mankin Media works hard at growth because it’s not easy — and it helps if company leaders understand that. Take the firm’s recent foray into managed AV services, for example. “It ate our lunch and we are just now coming out of the learning curve,” says Ben Mankin. The...
by Tom LeBlanc | Aug 1, 2018 | News
People who work in the tech business tend to talk like people who work in the tech business. That has been true at least as long as I have been in the business of reporting on people who work in the tech integration business. They use technology terms — often without...
by Tom LeBlanc | Jul 30, 2018 | Insights, News
The old adage that something is “a good problem to have,” like when an MLB team has too many good starting pitchers for its five-man rotation, doesn’t really apply to the AV industry’s problem. The market is improving, as demonstrated by NSCA forecasting a 6 percent...
by Tom LeBlanc | Jul 25, 2018 | News
When we launched our annual Fast-Growing Integration Firms coverage last year, our goal was in part to offer a dose of optimism to an AV integration market that seemed to sip from a half-empty glass. The conversations seemed to always be about struggles — the...
by Tom LeBlanc | Jul 23, 2018 | Projects
It used to be that health clubs only had to compete with laziness. Now they contend with Fitbits, fitness apps and lifestyle-inspired community workout groups. Smart health clubs use audio and video at the front lines of these battles, leveraging health club...
