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Sunday, November 02, 2025

VIP Goes All In on Sales Kickoffs

We’re all in on SKOs—and we proved it with this major corporate sales kickoff in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 500 attendees. The client needed an immersive, high-energy environment to motivate their sales team. We delivered with an expansive LED wall covering the…

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Passing the Baton: Planning Effective Handoffs Between Presenters

It seems like it should be an easy thing, but in our experience the most-often bungled part of a presentation is the handoff from one presenter to the next. There have been countless scenarios where we’ve seen a speaker finish their talk and just walk offstage, leaving awkward dead air while…

Monday, May 27, 2019

Videos in Presentations

We’ve all sat in the presentations where the speaker builds up to their awesome video, clicks the button… and nothing. I can’t even begin to count how many times a presenter has told me “I took all the videos out of my presentations because they cause too many problems.” Or at the other extreme the…

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Meet the Crew: C. Landon Griggs

Landon Griggs joined VIP Audio Visual Company as Project Manager in September 2018. Highly organized and detail-oriented, he keeps projects moving on schedule and does everything he can to support the VIP AV Team. His responsibilities vary from day to day and include managing project schedules, ma…

Tuesday, April 09, 2019

Renting Audio Visual Equipment from a Local Supplier

While VIP Audio Visual specializes in creating exceptional A/V experiences for our customers, not every event involves a large crew and complex tech setups. When you need a projector for the photo montage at a wedding, or a small sound system for an office party, VIP Audio Visual can provide profes…

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Painting Your Venue with Light

Whether it’s a Rembrandt masterpiece, an Ansel Adams landscape, or the venue for your next meeting, there’s no scene that isn’t made better with proper use of light. Good lighting is the simplest and cheapest way to transform a room. Whether you’re working in a 5-star hotel…

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Roundhouse Conference Center Partnership

VIP Audio Visual Company is proud to serve as the on-site AV company at many large hotels and conference centers throughout Northern California. We’d like to introduce you to a client we’ve developed a strong relationship with over the years: Roundhouse Conference Center at Bishop Ranch…

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Managing Aspect Ratios in Your Content

Aspect ratios are a confusing topic for most people. We start throwing around numbers like “4 by 3” or “16 by 9” and everyone rapidly loses interest. In spite of the confusion, aspect ratios aren’t that complicated, and they’re important to understand. Your onscreen content will look best when the…

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Help Us Help You! Tips For A Successful Relationship With Your AV Company

It sounds like a cliche, but we really are here to help make you successful. Our goal as your AV provider is to help your event go off without a hitch. While we can’t make the food taste better or make the valet attendants drive more safely, when it comes to what your attendees see and hear, we’ll…

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Working with Confidence Monitors

When your presenter is on stage, they want to speak to the audience, but if their only view of their slides is behind them that can be difficult. Speaking with your head turned back over your shoulder takes your attention away from the audience, turns the mouth away from the microphone, and is a re…

Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Meet the Crew: Stephen Davies

Stephen Davies has been part of the VIP Management Team for the past three years. As Accounts Manager, he manages orders, inventory, and productions at Roundhouse Conference Center at Bishop Ranch in San Ramon. He works with clients including Chevron, SAP, BlackBerry, and Rodan + Fields, and manage…