Managing Employees to Success

By Marty Schaffel AVI-SPL Over the years, many an employee would walk into my office declaring he has a problem that needs immediate attention. It may have been work related, industry related or personal in nature. In every case, the person would ask me to provide a prompt solution so he could get back to […]

Managing Employees to Success

Announcing the First Ever rAVe AV Hall of Fame

For years we’ve been writing about, featuring and awarding some of the best products, technology and people with various accolades and monikers. Now rAVe, the AV industry’s leading AV news source, will recognize the people in the AV market who have shaped it with the newly-announced rAVe’s AV Hall of Fame. This is a beginning. […]

Announcing the First Ever rAVe AV Hall of Fame

AV People: Marty Schaffel of AVI-SPL

For over 34 years, Marty Schaffel has been one of the hardest working men in the business. In 1979, he started his first business with $2,000 selling Kroy lettering machines — machines that created black letters on scotch tape type material, transparencies and slides. He’d successfully convinced them to set him up as a dealer, […]

AV People: Marty Schaffel of AVI-SPL