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Services contracts recurring revenue concept for OvrC

What We Can Learn About Valuing Our Services From SnapAV’s OvrC Pro

How much can you charge for service? That's the question on everyone's minds after SnapAV dropped the recurring…

News May 17
Customer Service OneVision Service Contracts
Team members holding hands symbolizing shared teamwork to help combat key person dependency.

5 Steps to Combat Key-Person Dependency on Your Service Team

Key-Person Dependency describes when an organization relies too heavily on the knowledge or ability of one person. It's…

News May 17
Training

Maverick Technical Institute Places 80% of First-Class Grads in Jobs

Maverick Technical Institute (MTI) in Nashua, N.H., has 100% graduation rate; places 80% from inaugural class in technician…

News May 17
Customer Service OneVision Smart Home

Why Customer Service Is the Last True Smart-Home Differentiator

Changes in the smart-home landscape — like IP-control, open-API’s, drag-and-drop programming and pre-configured UI's — are bringing technological…

News May 17
ADT Best Buy CE Pro 100 Vivint

Vivint, Best Buy, ADT Top CE Pro 100 List of Smart-Home Integrators of 2017

CE Pro's 2017 list of the highest revenue custom installation companies saw a whopping 24 percent increase in…

News May 16
Amazon Apple Facebook Google OneVision

Why GAFA’s Interest in the Smart Home Actually Presents Significant Opportunity

GAFA's (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) entrance into the smart home market presents two big changes for integrators: more…

News May 16
Customer Service OneVision Quest For Quality Awards

How to Use Emotional Intelligence to Excel in Customer Service

Emotional intelligence, or EQ, has been called 'the other kind of smart.' Here's how to use it to…

News May 15
Smart Home Thermostat

DIY Smart-Home System ‘Hive Welcome Home’ Brings Tiered Subscription Plans to U.S.

Hive Welcome Home combines a thermostat, lighting, plugs and sensors with a mobile app to offer a straight-to-consumer…

News May 11

Who Has Time for Associations?

Making time pays dividends and here’s how.

Sponsored May 11
Brinks Home Security Smart Home

MONI Offsets Q1 Attrition Rate with Higher Livewatch RMR

Security monitoring company MONI reports gaining traction with DIY Livewatch smart home and security system. Net revenue drops…

News May 8
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