In two short days, it will be 2016. In that year, AV Connections will mark more than thirty years in business in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. We would be remiss in truly understanding our blessings and gifts as a family if we failed to write to each of you as the New Year begins. We take stock every year at this time in a way far greater than paperwork, numbers, and equipment.

Often, successful business people will note there was no luck involved in building a thriving business. At AV Connections, Inc. we know that is, at best, inaccurate. And if you know anything about us, and the company Brad and Margie Luckhart founded, you know that we cannot live with inaccuracy.

It is true that the couple you see above, their son Jared and his wife Natalie, along with countless employees and supporting family over the years have worked their fingers to the bone every day. There is no such thing as weekends here, vacations have always been few for the Luckhart's, they take calls from crews all night long all over the Southeast. Their success was largely driven by determination and decency and the culture of excellence they created for us and our customers.

But luck was always there too and it is not to be underestimated. We have each of you, bright and remarkable clients, customers, and partners. No amount of our hard work could make you real. That was all luck and good references from you. That is where we have been luckiest. Our long time clients and our new customers continue to impress us and move us with their partnership. The drive to excel is easy for us, we could not imagine letting any one of you down.

AV Connections, Inc. is moved and humbled to be a trusted audiovisual and lighting provider to the Carolina's. You and your families and loved ones are fast in our thoughts always but particularly in this week when all of our good thoughts are with you for a happy, safe, and successful 2016.

When you need full-scale active demonstrations for your trade show or sales, convention AV rentals NC by AV Connections will be your best competitive edge. Delivering large-scale convention center audiovisual rentals and lighting, trade show AV set ups for booths and demos, and complete lighting design options for both, AV Connections, Inc. extensive inventory has every presentation technology option you will need.

AV Connections, Inc. travels throughout the Eastern seaboard, US, and Caribbean to service clients with both great sales meeting, trades show, and convention center set ups and the finest technicians in the industry. Hold a demonstration indoors our out to best get your sales message across. We will be there with economic AV rental rates, efficient set up and tear down, and flawless operating performance during your event.

AV Connections, Inc. works in convention centers and hotel conference centers across the United States and welcomes the opportunity to bid on your next conference or meeting audio visual RFP. Use AV Connections, Inc. once and find a career partner for perfect meetings and conference events and technology rentals.

We look forward to a good reason to create something incredible with light, our Outdoor specialty lighting rental NC team is never finished making magic. We are looking forward to the gala and banquet season and 2015 weddings for which we will light all the great venues of the South with our outdoor specialty lighting rental NC. From private residences to wedding and gala venues, AV Connections will be serving NC and SC celebrations with an ever-increasing and evolving inventory of specialty lighting options for planners.

If you are planning any type of celebration in NC or SC, we encourage you to call or email AV Connections, Inc. and let us help you design something extraordinary specially suited to your site or event venue. Get the best lighting design you can for the best prices, let us compete for your business. You'll be glad you called.

AV Connections national national AV rentals and event lighting is thirty this year, our history and culture of excellence prevails. We have been blessed with great customers and business communities. We've loved every exciting moment of founding and expanding AV Connections' AV rentals and event lighting businesses in North and South Carolina.

We were founded in 1984 by Brad and Margie Luckhart in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to serve the hotel conference industry there with AV rentals and presentation services. In growing our business over these thirty years, we have expanded to serve more conference and event markets nationally with branch offices. We've added employees who became long term contributors to our success and grew to see our Charleston, SC branch headed up by our son, and now Vice President, Jared Luckhart.

We have continued to serve the AV conference technology rental market by broadening our inventories of national AV rentals and event lighting selections in each branch. We continue to increase our market shares through dogged pursuit of excellence and challenging ourselves to provide the next great piece of technology to our clients along with the customer service excellence which is the cornerstone of our business philosophy.

Over the years, we have seen many competitors come and go. Our dedication and constant attention to detail in every area of our business has kept us nimble and prepared. Some tiny part of thirty years as a most successful national AV rentals and event lighting company owes to luck, but it is the tiniest part of our business. It is hard work that brought us this far, and we know we can count on it, attention to detail, and reliability to see us ahead for many more generations. An easy road, it never is, a worthwhile one which we love, it has been at every moment.

AV Connections thanks thirty years of dedicated customers for their business and looks forward to each day ahead with same energy of that first day in 1984.

 

AV Connections is pleased to be the most trusted AV rentals Greenville NC vendor. This week we have been on-site at Hilton Greenville NC providing audio visual rentals and staging at the hotel. Our clients were a major national focus group marketing firm. Arriving in Greenville, NC to conduct two days with of focus groups, AV Connections, Inc was their choice to provide hotel conference AV rentals for their Greenville meetings.

Like many experienced hotel and meeting planners, our firm knows that it is far more efficient to contact an outside AV firm in Greenville NC to collect estimates from other audio visual providers besides those one-site at the hotel or conference center. Hotels and conference center put enormous premiums on every service they generate for the conference or meeting. Like your $6 morning coffee in a hotel, conference and meeting audio visual rentals work the same way. What might be $100 from an outside AV rental company in Greenville, might be $600 from the on-site AV vendor. It is best to check around and get bids or estimates as your process dictates. The more planning a professional does of meetings or conferences, the more they know that shopping around keeps money in their company's hands.

AV Connections, Inc. is the most trusted audio visual rental company in North Carolina, in business successfully for twenty-nine years and counting. We are dedicated to customer service. We will be there on time, prepared, and with technicians whose knowledge of event and conference technology is unsurpassed in North Carolina. We are of one mind when it comes to our work: Excellence is the only option.

Audiovisual inventory items required for this job site and available for rental in NC from AV Connections, Inc. were:

Hitachi CP-X2511 (2.7k) LCD Projector
1 1.0 6 'x 8' Fast-Fold Screen (Front Surface)
1 1.0 Extron DVS 406 Switcher/Scaler
2 1.0 Sony 3 CCD Mini DV Camcorder
1 1.0 Yamaha MG 12 ch Mixer
1 1.0 Shure UHF Wireless Lavalier Microphone System

2 1.0 JBL 12" Powered Speaker 1000 Watt
8 1.0 PZM MICROPHONE
2 1.0 Intercom System/Station
2 1.0 Video Distribution Amp.
2 1.0 Sharp LC-60LE450U 60" LCD Monitor
1 1.0 Yamaha MG166C Mixer
2 1.0 JBL 12" Powered Speaker 1000 Watt
2 1.0 Panasonic DVD Recorder

In addition, AV Connections, Inc also provided these conference professionals to manage the job site and run the AV and video for the focus groups:

Multimedia audio visual Specialist
Video Technician Cameraman

This was a great location for AV Connections, Inc. to provide conference AV rentals in Greensboro NC! We were pleased to be at a new job site for our work conference AV rentals in Greensboro, NC: the Greensboro Marriott Downtown. We've been in business in NC for thirty years, it was a wonderful experience to work with a familiar client in a newer venue for AV Connections, Inc. A repeat NC conference client called on us to provide AV rentals and event audio technicians in Greensboro, NC.

We were on site at the Greensboro Marriott Downtown four days on site providing conference and meeting AV and lighting for Wake Forest's School of Medicine's Northwest Area Health Education Center.

Many thanks to our NWAHEC clients for their words of praise for AV Connections, Inc's Event Technology Team for their audio visual work on this conference:

"Thank you! As always, everything went great and we are always grateful for the stellar job that is done during the events."

For this conference we provided set up and strike after the conference conclusion, out Event AV Technicians, and the following equipment from our conference audio visual inventory:

JBL 12" Powered Speakers, stand included
6' x 6' Screens
Shure UHF Wireless Handheld Microphone Systems
Mackie 802 4-Channel Mixer
Shure UHF Wireless Lavalier Microphone Systems
Shure UHF Wireless Handheld Microphone Systems
Shure UHF Wireless Handheld Microphone System (floor microphones)
Yamaha MG166C Mixers
A.C. Power Strips & Drop cords for Plenary & breakout rooms

If you are planning a meeting or conference in Greensboro, NC, AV Connections is the clear AV equipment rental provider. Call, email, or send us your conference RFP for a bid: avrentals@avconnectionsusa.com .

We had a great couple of days recently providing conference audiovisual for the NEAHEC Geriatrics Conference at the The Village Innin Clemmons, NC - a suburb of beautiful Winston-Salem, NC where AV Connections, Inc. was founded and where our corporate headquarters are now located.

North Carolina AHEC  is an organization geared to meet the state’s health and health workforce employees needs by providing educational programs with academic institutions, health care agencies, and other organizations committed to improving the health of the people of North Carolina.

For this conference, AV Connections, Inc was pleased to provide the following conference audiovisual rentals and staging equipment which we are always pleased to set up and tear down for our conference clients:

Shure wireless microphones
Mackie mixer
JBL speakers
Hitachi projectors
MacBook Pro laptops
AnalogWay switcher/scaler
Extron VGA Distribution Amplier

AV Connections, Inc. of NC was pleased to provide conference audio visual at Meadowbrook Inn in beautiful Blowing Rock, NC this past week. Meadowbrook Inn is a popular spot for conferences, meetings, and weddings in North Carolina, we were pleased to get the call to provide conference audio visual for the Northwest AHEC Conference, part of the UNC School of Medicine.

For the AHEC conference audio visual, we provided:

Yamaha mixer
JBL speakers
Shure wireless microphones
Extron 406 switcher
Toshiba laptop
5' screen and projector (flown from ceiling)

AV Connections, Inc of NC is pleased to be a national provider of conference audio visual. We were founded in Winston-Salem, NC and still proudly operate from our corporate headquarters in Winston-Salem, NC. We are pleased to provide conference and meeting audio visual to events of every size, indoors and out, across the United States.

WE'RE HIRING for audiovisual jobs in NC! SEND YOUR RESUMES! avrentals@avconnectionsusa.com

We all want to be “rock stars!” But what we need are the guys responsible for making the rock star shine! At AV Connections, Inc. in Winston-Salem, NC, our Audio Visual Technicians are responsible for executing successful meetings or events using outstanding customer service and the most innovative technology on the market. Our guys operate behind the scenes, only taking an occasional pause to relish in the applause. It’s the sound of a job well done and the culmination of a successful event experience.
Working with AV Connections, Inc. requires a unique skill set. Are you interested in using and pursuing the latest audio/visual technology? Do you have a professional demeanor and are passionate about customer service? These skills are necessary to serve our clients in the hospitality arena, from small hotels and meeting rooms to large hotel properties and convention centers. At AV Connections, Inc. in Winston-Salem, NC, “Excellence is the Only Option!”

Job Description:

Audio Visual Technician – Part-time/Full-time/Contract
Location: Winston-Salem, NC Corporate Offices of AV Connections, Inc.
Basic delivery, set-up, operation and tear-down of large and small scale audiovisual systems for live events while ensuring the best in client satisfaction. Responsible for accurate set-up and proper operation of basic electronic equipment. Provide excellent service and strive to exceed expectations and needs of customers. Maintain a positive relationship with all clients through excellent communication. Understand the technical aspects of the job and demonstrate basic operational skills to troubleshoot and problem solve. Understand company processes, follow procedures and complete systems entry and paperwork accurately. Interact with other staff and outside vendors for equipment. Increase revenue by utilizing up-selling techniques. Work with clients to finalize invoices.

Required Skills:
• High School diploma required
• Live event experience and previous customer service experience helpful
• Technical aptitude and basic understanding of how to use audiovisual equipment and computer hardware and software
• Excellent customer service skills
• Must be responsible, self-motivated, self-starter, personable and well-organized
• Must be able to accommodate a rotating work schedule to include nights and weekends
• Portrays a polished professional image to meet company dress code requirements
• Must be able to lift and carry 50 pounds on a regular basis
• Clean driving record
• Video-editing skills a plus

If you are interested in job openings and employment opportunities in audiovisual at AV Connections, Inc. in Winston-Salem, NC please email your resume to avrentals@avconnectionsusa.com .

Here is another great graduation with Wake Tech where we provided commencement audio visual and lighting for the mid-semester ceremonies. We love being the commencement audio visual supplier for these happy occasions.

We at AV Connections, Inc. are proud to say we watch literally thousands of new graduates receive their degrees and diplomas each year, then toss their mortar boards, and enter the post-graduate universe. We are standing by to be sure every speaker is well and easily seen and heard. It is so important to hire a flawless vendor like AV Connections, Inc. for commencement audio visual. Graduation will be the last time a class stands together, listens together, and celebrates together. We are there to make sure their last moments as a class, and under the care of your school, are perfect for them.

AV Connections, Inc. provides national commencement audio visual and lighting services for every type of graduation: From small private schools to large universities with multiple graduations over several days. No commencement is too small nor too big. We want to be there to help, to steel their memories of their last times together, and to get those graduates off on the right foot. We'll deliver those last messages to your students, make sure their name rings clear to their family as they walk across the stage, and make it memorable for every day to come.

AV Connections, Inc. welcomes all inquiries for all schools, colleges, and universities for any and all help with audio visual and light rentals and staging needs. Do not hesitate to get in touch, we're ready to compete. Call us at 336-768-5454 or email at avrentals@avconnectionsusa.com.