What a time it is for the world and the AV industry. Regarding the former, I’m sure we’ve all heard plenty about the coronavirus from the news, social media, or via your family’s group text chat. So we’ll keep this intro to thoughts on the AV industry and how Rental [and Staging] can get through this together.
In his new column, “Quarantined,” Joel Rollins writes, “It will be at least several months before we return to the ability to have public events.” So what do we do as an industry? Here’s his solace: “Our industry specializes in being able to turn over quickly. So I don’t know what entities will survive this and which ones won’t, but our industry certainly will.” The challenge now, Joel continues, is to offer our clients the same kind of enhancement of their events that we’ve provided previously. There’s no doubt that staged meetings/events are forever changed. (Joel, again: “It was going to happen anyway, but our current viral experience is going to change the curve on when it happens.”)
So, the show must go on, hypothetically speaking, and so does rental and staging. (This week’s product news is a testament to that.) Stay safe, all, and keep us updated with any information or updates you have so that we can share them out with our network.