It’s a lilability just to handle one with less than 10% return and God forbid damage in shipping.

Everything can be stored in the cloud so why would you need any other source?

Almost to the point of just replacing that reciever to upgrade your system.

Quality audio in the I pod generation has been lost on most.

Keypads and remotes are being taken over with I pads and phones apps with little or no programming required.
 
General Public and even my builders who are left tell me that everything is wireless now so who needs us?

HDMI has been and continues to be an adventure that amazes me with all the hand shakes required.

19 tiny wires and a plug that requires huge holes and can’t be field terminated at least yet with full 3D performance.

Of course wireless has been announced and will be available soon.  Too early to tell.

Shielded Cat wire?  Seems like a step backward but if you don’t run it you just might be at your expense.  Been there.

For the life of me I can’t see where the next real profit center is going to come from. Maybe health care but most of those

devices can be bought at most drug stores.

Expenses are sky high and keep rising.so just to send out a truck is a wash.

Retrofits can be risky with the new rules and fines.

Can’t charge a customer for all the time it took when you just found out that new piece of gear or wire that has a problem or limitation.

Charge what it takes to pay a living wage and make a profit, only the top 10% will be able or willing to afford it.

Customer service from a vendor?  Some do but not most.

Then of course every time the internet has a glitch or the cable or dish blanks out I get a call because it’s the systems fault.

Not much left worth fixing, throw it away, buy a new one.

Uncle is not small business friendly and Health insurance can’t be touched by most.

It’s been FUN an adventure, a challenge, I enjoy it but for the devoted little business in this economy,

Going to be hard to survive without expanding into areas that are all ready be served by others.

Without the Fun toys it just becomes another job without the passion we’ve all so enjoyed. 

Just might be time to go back to a real school and beome a IT guy or get into health care. 

CEDIA put on a great face and it was nice to meet in person and put a face to those voices.

But after I started talking with them, everyone seemed down and out.  No real direction that’s exciting.

DID YOU SEE ONE?  Let me know.

Downtown Indy was torn to pieces, nice new convention center but the signage was confusing at best.

Most signs had a map but didn’t tell you were you were on that map. Took more time that it could have.

I really expected to see touch screen digital signage from this industry, very little was there.

WHERE IS THE INDUSTRY ? WHERE DO YOU SEE IT GOING? WHATS WORKING AND NOT WORKING FOR YOU?

I think many of us agree that we are not going to go RUN and get out electrical license but what are we going to do? more volume? less tv? more commercial?

On a personal note , the one thing i got out of cedia was how much i DO NOT need cedia. If i were just starting then yes it would be a good tool for info and a semi credible badge on my website but for us mor veteran companies I think we should find a way to create something by us . I think we need to have our opinions on this board more and come up with things on how we can help one another and even the staring guy who wants to come in the biz.

Id love to hear from you guys.

Thank you,

Victor Savturev
VCS IT Solutions
http://WWW.vcsitsolutions.com

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I could not find a post on the subject and wanted feedback on this.

I recently started my own company and was wondering what the common practices are in the business for billing clients.
When and how much (%) are you billing your clients throughout the project? I realize it could also depend on the type and size of project.
Personally, cash flow is an issue, so I cannot afford to have receivables or extend any form of “credit” to my clients. So I’m asking for input because I want to make sure I’m adopting a viable and acceptable (to my clients and business) billing practice.

Thanks for the feedback.

Alan

PS: If I missed a previous discussion or article, please point it out to me.

My initial question is:  Does anyone here have a store front in retail space? What do you show? I certainly am not trying to compete with the big boxes. Since a majority of our business is service related, the concept would be more along the lines of a stand alone Geek Squad with Automation demonstration/experience areas.

Any and all help in making a responsible decision is GREATLY appreciated.

How can we expect the homeowner to pay another service bill to remove/reinstall an A/V receiver after 6 or 8 months?
It’s one thing if it only happens once in a blue moon, but when you have to replace just about every receiver from a major manufacturer, this becomes a big cost to us.
I won’t name names here…you know who you are.But seriously, how about taking care of us?
Jason

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Meanwhile, I get charged $250 to change a $20 capacitor on my HVAC unit & the answer I get is “it’s a flat rate, what the book says”
Or $900 to swap a condenser thats under warranty. It took 1 man, 2 hours. That’s 450/hour. Its no problem for them.

Anyway, I’d love to hear from Julie on this topic.

Jason