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Power Up Your Shade Sales Game

by Terry Coffey | July 21, 2025 | Draper At Home, Solar Control & Window Shades | 9 Comments

This week we’re powering up your competitive advantage with a special week launching more tools to help you get more sales! This special “Power Up” week features exciting, next-level window shade upgrades! We’re rolling out highly anticipated upgrades to some of our...

New Draper-Designed Chain Tensioner for Clutch Shades

by Terry Coffey | July 16, 2025 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper At Home, Solar Control & Window Shades | 0 Comments

Part of our overall Strategy as a company is to keep finding ways to get better: “We draw from deep expertise to continuously improve and hold ourselves to a standard of excellence.” An excellent example of that strategy hits the streets in the next few days in the...

Dream Big, Build Bigger!

by Terry Coffey | July 9, 2025 | Audiovisual Mounts & Structures, Draper Updates, Pro AV Integration | 0 Comments

That’s the message we took to InfoComm 2025 in Orlando and based on feedback from the show that message was delivered loud and clear! In order to focus attention on AV Mounts and Structures, this was the first time our InfoComm booth did not include projection...

Branching Out, Remaining Rooted: An American Manufacturing Story

by Terry Coffey | July 2, 2025 | Draper Updates | 0 Comments

It’s an American manufacturing story that begins with one man’s vision, a small local business, and a bicycle. Through the years, that vision grew and thrived, and the story developed into a multi-faceted tale of success and values held in the face of changing times....

Bond Bridge Pro Brings App Control to Draper, Draper At Home Shades

by Terry Coffey | June 25, 2025 | Architecture/Green Building, Smart Home, Solar Control & Window Shades | 0 Comments

Now you can enjoy the complete smart control experience thanks to our new partnership with Bond – and yes, there’s an app for that! We are partnering with controls company Bond to integrate motorized window shades into home control/automation systems through the Bond...

Finding His Passion

by Jentry Wittkamper | Sep 28, 2015 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, International Update, Screen Technology

We're always on the lookout for new ways to tell people about our products ... to show them the benefits and explain why our products should be used. The best way to do this is by finding stories about our products and how they impact people and projects. Such stories...

Visitors from Draper Europe

by Terry Coffey | Sep 25, 2015 | Draper Updates, International Update

We’ve had some special visitors to Draper’s Spiceland headquarters the past few days. Tomas Andersson and Anna Reljanovic from our Swedish subsidiary, Draper Europe, spent most of the week here. “Every year we bring some of the folks from Draper Europe in for...

Getting More Women In AV

by Amy Madden | Sep 22, 2015 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Rental & Staging, Screen Technology

I’ve been in the audiovisual industry for 16 years. Long enough to notice some major changes. I’ve been the only female in a room many times and am ecstatic to see that happening less and less frequently. I applaud AVNetwork for running their current web survey–"How...

The Right Screen for Ambient Light-Commercial Settings

by Terry Coffey | Sep 18, 2015 | From the Field, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Rental & Staging, Screen Technology

Earlier this year, Draper was asked by Commercial Integrator Europe—a publication geared, obviously, toward European AV integrators—to write an article on projection screens and ambient light. Steve Cook, our National AV Consultant Manager, got to work and soon had...

Rummaging for Content

by Terry Coffey | Sep 14, 2015 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Houses of Worship

Although summer is still officially with us for a couple of more weeks here in the United States, it sort of unofficially ended last Monday with the Labor Day holiday. Among other things, the Labor Day weekend is a big time for rummage sales. For those of you...

AV Schizophrenia

by Amy Madden | Sep 11, 2015 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Pro AV Integration

One of my reps nailed my personality last week during a conference call. He told me I was a “doer.” He said that it was a good thing. Being reintroduced to the residential market here at Draper, there’s a lot to be done to energize the market and even our own people....

Why Draper-Vince Shockney

by Terry Coffey | Sep 2, 2015 | Draper Updates

This week's Why Draper subject is Vince Shockney. Vince is the development side of our award-winning web team. Vince is the kind of guy who can read code for a good time! How did you come to be working at Draper? The organization where I was working at the time had...

#CEDIATweeps Assemble!

by Terry Coffey | Aug 28, 2015 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre

As many of our faithful blog readers already know, I was chosen by CEDIA as one of this year's #CEDIATweeps. The #CEDIATweeps are folks who are active on, and supposedly good at, social media. It's our collective job to promote the CEDIA Expo, coming up in Dallas in...

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