Associations Focus: New Year’s Resolutions

Jan 1, 2007 12:00 PM

InfoComm solidifies its leadership while CEDIA and NSCA discuss upcoming conferences for 2007.

CEDIA

PROFIT FROM EXPERIENCE: MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 2007

Bring in the New Year right; place your company among the best-performing businesses in the residential electronic systems industry. The CEDIA Management Conference is just around the corner and is specifically designed for CEOs and senior-level managers in the custom electronics industry.

New for 2007 will be a strategic management forum and panel discussion titled “Profit vs. Product, Where do you make the most profit and how to sustain it?” A group of industry leaders from the vendor, consultant, distributor, and contractor communities will discuss how electronic systems contractors have many choices for products that are cool, but may not be good for business because of associated costs, such as staff training, challenges of integrating the product with other products, manufacturer policies, back orders, and product changes.

The conference will also have other strategic management forums, two-hour breakout sessions combining standup instruction and small work groups in which you will develop materials with your peers that can be taken back and implemented in your business. Forum topics include: “Diversify Your Portfolio and Expand Your Market,” “Future Strategic Business Planning,” “Growing Your Working Capital,” and “Marketing and Branding.”

CEDIA Certified Instructors (CCIs), volunteers who have been identified as experts in some aspect of the residential electronic systems field, will moderate these forums to ensure that every leader present receives the highest-quality education. These instructors will maximize the effectiveness in these sessions and enhance subject retention in the classroom.

For more details or to register for the Management Conference, log on to www.cedia.org/management_conf. Remember online registration ends Jan. 31, 2007.

CEDIA MEMBERSHIP

CEDIA is renowned within the custom electronic industry for its exceptional educational courses and an extraordinary annual Expo. But CEDIA's greatest attribute is its members, who are passionate about the industry. Here are just a few examples of benefits you receive as a CEDIA member:

Electronic Lifestyles Idea Bank: With more than 25,000 documents, the Electronic Lifestyles Idea Bank helps you build your business with proven plans that work.

Member Forum: Dedicated industry peers volunteer to help members with questions concerning day-to-day business. Grassroots Legislative Network:CEDIA's public-policy efforts are designed to support CEDIA members and ensure that their abilities to own and operate their business are not impeded.

Educational Discounts: CEDIA members receive great discounts on all CEDIA educational and industry events.

Electronic Lifestyles Awards: As a CEDIA member, you have the opportunity to submit your best work or most innovative product and be recognized by your peers.

If you would like to learn more about this dynamic association, go to www.cedia.org or call (800) 669-5329 x145.

For more information on CEDIA, visit www.cedia.org or call (800) 669-5329.