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Building and Maintaining “Forever Customer” Relationships
The truth is, “You will always be remembered.” But, the question is, “How will you be remembered?” As a business owner and service/product provider, I recommend the following principles to establish good customers because of your good reputations: Read more »
Trending Now – Interactive Kiosks, Speech Mapping, and Projection Mapping
This week, we enjoyed researching AV trends and the cutting edge of AV technology and uses. After we share each trend, you will see us ask a series of questions for our readers. Please share your experiences with these trends, whether locally in Bend, regionally in a big city, or nationally and internationally.
Trending Now – Interactive Kiosks. In the March 16th blog of Integrated Computer Solutions, the writer shares how well interactive kiosks perform in retail sales areas because of the opportunity to use a variety of specialized content strategies. Specifically, six multimedia categories that greatly affect the user experiences are shared. Read more »
Tony Sprando joins the Blogsquad at rAVe pubs – the #1 AV Publication
As I (Lauren Breslin) am writing this post at 6:23pm on Tuesday, March 15, 2016, Tony Sprando’s blog post on “Is More Speaker Really Better?” is the featured picture, blog and link on the rAVe pubs website. And I am thrilled to share with our Audio Visual Bend customers and colleagues that Tony has recently been invited to join the acclaimed and elite Blogsquad for rAVe publications.
What is rAVe pubs? To borrow their own words, Read more »
Microphone Placement is Everything!
Today I’d like share about best practices for where to place a fixed microphone when using one for speaking. These best practices apply to everyone including sports announcers for the Big Ten Conference, presidential candidates from a lectern, and also general handheld applications.
The speaking voice is a source, and like your radio or music player, it creates sound and it projects its sound to the listener. To increase the quality of your voice for listeners, you need to apply a sound system, i.e speakers and microphones. When using these pieces of equipment, a speaker must consider placement, which I will cover for you here. Read more »
The Evolution of the Super Car and Top Projectors
A supercar is a very expensive and high-performance sports car or grand tourer. The term is used in marketing by automakers for unusual, high-end vehicles, and has been used to refer to at least four different sorts of cars:
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The Many Uses of Audio Visual
What is meant by the term “audio visual”? In a nutshell, it is the use of both sight and sound, typically in the form of slides or video and recorded speech or music.
This is the essence of what I do every day to help people use audio visual in business, church or educational applications. One area that will never cease is the need to rent a system for a day. No matter what the state of the economy, people want to use audio visual for selling a product or for entertainment. The most common uses are the types of events that are a part of people’s lives. Weddings and memorial services need microphones and a sound system. Celebrations of all kinds need a sound system for attendees to enjoy music. Video projectors and screens are commonly rented to add a visual element to all of these types of events. The more advanced requests may be Video Conferencing, Live Streaming or recording.
This post is to visually highlight a few daily rental events we did in 2015 such as:
Audio Visual Design, the Oxford Hotel Group, and Hospitality
Have you ever stayed at one of the hotels in the Oxford Hotel Group? If not, I encourage you to enjoy one of their locations in Oregon, Washington, Idaho or California. If yes, then you have most likely experienced their commitment to hospitality in all areas – lodging, dining, and also, audio visual surroundings.
This 2015 Project Highlight was my professional dream come true. In 1994, I started in the Hotel Industry taping down cords for audio visual events in a Ritz Carlton. Fast forward a couple decades — I had the opportunity to work beside the Oxford Hotel Group as they built a hotel from the ground up in Bellingham, Washington. Personally and professionally, I felt a bit spoiled working on this project since they owned their own Cessna (which delivered me to the site within forty-five minutes from Bend!).
Managing Restaurant Noise at Jackson’s Corner
Restaurant consumers were recently asked, “How do you feel about restaurant noise?” Of the 1,232 responses, nearly 80% said, “Loathe it.” (About 14% said they don’t notice noise, and about 7% love it.) Echoing numerous restaurant reviewers around the country, one participant commented, “The most consistent complaint I hear from friends and readers has to do with noisy restaurants.” It’s a common cry, one that has reached the pinnacle of customer dissatisfaction in the Zagat Dining Trends Survey. Diners around the country now rank noise in restaurants as their #1 complaint.
Today’s Project Highlight from 2015 is Jackson’s Corner Eastside location. I was asked to provide a proposal of cost to help this popular but noisy restaurant. “The customers are up and leaving, complaining they can’t carry on a conversation” described Palmer Noble, a Jackson’s Corner Manager. I was one of two people they asked to help them but I was chosen for one primary reason, which I am going to reveal at the end of the post. Keep reading…
AV Design for 1001 Tech Center
Tech centers are all the Rave! “Over the past decade, it just got to the point where it became cool to start a company here (Bend),” says Jim Boeddeker, Executive Director of Founderspad. Hence, I introduce to you the 1001 Tech Center!
The 1001 Tech Center Building was the first of three tech center projects I have completed this year and the opportunities continue at comparable centers through word-of-mouth referrals. This is not your typical customer wanting a projector and screen. Every room is custom created and the resident interior designer is required to sign off on every step. No wall is the same as the next.