Latest headlines: Fred Ampel on being in the Audio Engineering Society for 50 years, Gary Kayye’s Krystal Ball predictions articles for 2019, plus news from Bose, Audinate, Matrox, SurgeX and more
February 18, 2019 | Volume: 8 | Issue: 3
We returned from Amsterdam early last week after the 2019 Integrated Systems Europe show. You can find all of our coverage at rAVePubs.com/ISE2019 — there are thousands of pieces of content!
This issue of rAVe HOW features two pieces by Dr. Fred Ampel: one on his 50th year anniversary as a member of the Audio Engineering Society (congrats, Fred!) and one in response to a column from Anthony Coppedge in December. Both are certainly worth your time and come highly recommended by me.
What are you willing to do to keep the lights and sound working? Fred (an industry veteran) and I (someone relatively new to the industry) hope you pass it on.
That’s the unique thing about the ProAV community. We are really just a small town of a few tens of thousands of individuals all over the planet, but we all have one thing in common. We never have exactly the same job every day. And it is that little bit of the unexpected in every day that keeps us hooked on this industry.
Any way you calculate it there is a LOT OF MONEY out there for AV suppliers, but you must have a plan, a process, a clear focus, and you need to actually ask the potential buyers for their business. It is perhaps oversimplifying things but it would seem that somewhere along the way that critical element of the whole sales effort got misplaced by an awfully large number of companies. Is yours one of them?
I love writing this annual predictions article. If you’re a regular reader, you already know this but for those that don’t, my Kayye’s Krystal Ball piece is an annual article where I not only tell you what I think is going to happen in the AV market for the upcoming year, but I also go back and review the previous year’s predictions. Sort of a scorecard of accuracy, if you will. And, 2019 is going to be an exciting year with A LOT of changes in the AV market so I hope you’ll read them all.