What's New At The End Of 2021?
Last Monthly Update As Your Representative...
New Products - News - Featured Products

In this issue:
  • Residential Housing Starts Are Up!!
  • Intel States Chip Shortages Could Last For Years
  • Large Exhibitors Pull Out Of CES Because Of Covid
  • Interesting Free Resources You Can Use
  • Paradigm Monitor SE Series 20% Off
  • MartinLogan Motion & Dynamo Loudspeakers 20% Off
  • SurgeX Power 101 Vince Luciani SurgeX Field Engineer
  • Stealth Acoustics Designs Products From Their Installs
  • Acoustic Sciences Corporation News "Sonic Shimmer"
  • PAMrep Lines Transition To New Representation 1/1/22
November Residential Housing Starts
At Highest Levels In 8 Months!
"In a new report on residential housing construction by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, overall housing starts in the month of November snapped a three-month slide and took their biggest jump since March of this year. Both the overall construction starts and those for single-family dwellings had their best month in the last eight months. This was a surprise…" This quote is from an article in strata-gee.com - read the article here.
Intel suggests that chip supply shortages could continue and last several years into the future.

Reuters has a well written article around an interview with Intel's CEO. He stated that the chip shortage could take several years to be resolved. Read the article here.
Large Exhibitors Pull Out of CES 2022 Due to Increasing COVID Infections

Strate-gee.com's Ted Green reports that Amazon, T-Mobile, Facebook, Twitter, and more are pulling out of CES 2022.
Interesting Resources To Help Develop Your AV Business

There are a number of interesting resources available to you and your team that can help you develop more relationship and business.

CEDIA Integrator Directory For Interior Designers - Click Here! Are you showing up?

Listings for CEDIA type integrators for Homeowners - Click Here! How is your visibility through CEDIA?

BuildZoom provides data on 175 million building permits by zip code, by state, and by metro area. Their national building permit database and contractor license database include both residential and commercial building permit data. Click Here!

Developing Your Website Visibility - Backlinko offers a list of the 25 best free SEO tools.

Something was on the internet that you liked as a reference... now it is gone. Did you know you might still be able to see it? The Internet Archive or WayBack Machine has more than 635 billion web pages saved over time. Search for the domain and view the archive!

Looking for a good Project Management Guide to develop best practices and grow your teams abilities? check out this Infocomm resource!
There are only a few more days to save 20% on Paradigm's Monitor SE series. Send your orders soon to make certain you can grab these savings! Products included are listed here.
The MartinLogan Motion and Dynamo 20% Off Promotion is on for a few more days. Be sure to get your orders in soon to take advantage of this opportunity. The included products are listed here.
Enjoy Power 101 by SurgeX's own Vince Luciani. It goes through power considerations for installations in detail.
At Stealth Acoustics their Invisible Loudspeakers are all made in Mount Vernon Washington by the friendly and proficient experts in their plant. Your invisible speakers come from years of experince because they run an installation company in their area and are actively developing and installing these before they are ever offered for sale to you and your clients. What could be better? Check them out here!
Acoustic Sciences Corporation has a wonderful resource available to you. They publish newsletters packed with great information about acoustics and more often. Sign up here and enjoy! This month is around Sonic Shimmer!
PAMrep Manufacturers Transition To New Representation 1/1/22

The PAMrep manufacturers, Anthem, ASC, MartinLogan, Paradigm, Stealth Acoustics, and SurgeX will be in contact this before 1/1/22 with announcements of who will be representing their brands and all of the contact information you will need to move forward. Some are still in the process of interviews and contracts and some have already selected your new contacts for their relationship with you.

  • Paradigm and Anthem have elected to go to a factory direct relationship. Joey Perfito will be your new market representative and he will also have some additional help to properly cover your needs. Joey brings years of experience in manufacturing, training and support from his experiences.
  • MartinLogan is also going to a factory direct relationship and Russell Woolfolk will be your factory representative. Russell will also have some additional help in covering your accounts. Russell comes from a background of Retail, Custom Installation, Manufacturing, Training and Support.
  • SurgeX will be represented by Orion Advanced Marketing. They have a large sales/support team and will be in touch with you soon. They have already been trained on the array of SurgeX products and look forward to working with you.
  • Stealth Acoustics is in progress on selecting representation for your areas. They will be in touch soon. For now, please email order orders to them along with any support inquiries here.
  • ASC Acoustic Sciences Corporation is also looking for representation and as soon as they decide, they will be in touch with you. For now you can order by contacting them here.

PAMrep will be continue to exist as a contractor for industry dealers providing SEO, Social Media Postings and Outreach as a service and will have hopefully reduced hours and travel in semi-retirement. If you would like to know more click here.

PAMrep has been blessed to have represented the very best manufacturers and relationships with the best dealers anywhere! We hope that you continue to enjoy an even stronger relationship and success with your new representatives.

PAMrep as a representative firm will close on December 31st, 2021. Our relationship with you and your team has been a wonderful experience and one that has created many memories.

Thank you for all of your support and friendship over the years!!