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D-Tools Joins Home Cinema Europe Partners @ ISE 2011
01/19/2011 – 10:28 am | Comments Off
D-Tools Joins Home Cinema Europe Partners @ ISE 2011

D-Tools is pleased to join an outstanding group of innovative manufacturers who will be exhibiting together under the banner “Home Cinema Europe” at this year’s Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) – February 1-3 at the Amsterdam …

D-Tools Intensive @ EHX: A Unique Training Event
12/15/2010 – 9:28 am | Comments Off
D-Tools Intensive @ EHX: A Unique Training Event

D-Tools plans to provide customers and EHX attendees with a shot of adrenaline with D-Tools Intensive @ EHX – a unique one day training and networking experience to be held in conjunction with EHX: The …

I Love it When a Plan Comes Together
11/04/2010 – 4:05 pm | Comments Off
I Love it When a Plan Comes Together

I was a fan of the A-Team when I was younger, and I actually had the opportunity to meet some of the cast members when I was working for TV 20 in San Francisco back …

D is for Data Part II – At your Request
11/03/2010 – 1:15 pm | Comments Off
D is for Data Part II – At your Request

In my last post I referenced our new Data Request form on the D-Tools website. This form is an important part of our re-tooled process for collecting, managing, and ultimately delivering product data to our …

D is for Data – Part I
10/28/2010 – 12:40 pm | Comments Off
D is for Data – Part I

As referenced in some of our recent posts, we are in the process of reworking our entire data gathering and distribution process.  Thanks to some great work by Randy Bownds and the rest of the …

There’s no “I” in Beard, but….
10/26/2010 – 3:44 pm | Comments Off
There’s no “I” in Beard, but….

OK, I’m hoping this will be the last sports to business analogy article I will write for the rest of the year (unless of course the Giants win the World Series and I will have …

D-Tools Online Data Library – A Favicon is worth a Thousand Pixels
10/20/2010 – 9:34 am | Comments Off
D-Tools Online Data Library – A Favicon is worth a Thousand Pixels

Well, more like 16 x 16 pixels. But an important 16 x 16 pixels. D-Tools recently launched a new online data library to help make it easier for our users to quickly search for, preview, …

Pulling on the Same Rope – In it to Win it Part II
10/15/2010 – 3:23 pm | Comments Off
Pulling on the Same Rope – In it to Win it Part II

In my last post I attempted to connect October baseball with success in our everyday work. The key points I was trying to make were: perseverance, overcoming obstacles, and staying focused on a goal are …

In it to win it
10/12/2010 – 3:50 pm | Comments Off
In it to win it

If you are any kind of sports fan at all then you must love October. October is a great month on the sports calendar because it has almost everything going for it – football is …

D-Tools SI5.5 & iPad – Putting Your Best Work Forward
10/06/2010 – 4:24 pm | Comments Off
D-Tools SI5.5 & iPad – Putting Your Best Work Forward

I’m in. I’m sold. When can we start? Those are words we as salespeople love to hear. As a system integrator and system designer, your work should speak for itself. While you of course need …

Case Study: Audio Video Lifestyles Expands into Commercial Market through use of D-Tools SI5.5
09/16/2010 – 2:11 pm | Comments Off
Case Study: Audio Video Lifestyles Expands into Commercial Market through use of D-Tools SI5.5

Biggest Challenges:

Proposal generation too time consuming
Lacked a method to track inventory and pricing
Project Modifications and Calculations too time consuming and inaccurate
Inability to manage larger-scale projects

Based in Fort Wayne Indiana, Audio Video Lifestyles started out at …

Back to the Future (Growth)
06/14/2010 – 3:48 pm | Comments Off
Back to the Future (Growth)

At the InfoComm show last week it was good to see something that had been missing from industry events for a while – optimism. Having been away from the industry for the better part of …