Don’t Use Hotel AV

Do I Have to Hire the Hotel AV?

A lot of event planners find themselves asking, “do I have to use the hotel AV?” In short, no. The reality is that the hotel AV doesn’t even work for the hotel. Hotel AV companies pay 50% of all of their gross budgets to the hotel, plus a signing bonus, to get in house access to the hotel. This is why it’s so expensive, and the service is poor. Hotel AV companies are positioned for convenience – like a 7-Eleven. They have a short list of capabilities and way more expensive, but it’s right there.

Hotel AV hopes you won’t notice that the pricing is more than double what it should be. So, Audio Visual companies have to charge twice what an outside vendor could to do the same job. So, this leaves Repertoire Productions the opportunity to do the same job for much less money, or more than double the quality and service, for the same price. Don’t be like Chad, avoid this classic production blunder, and never be forced to wear more flair!

Hire a Production Company, not the Hotel AV

In general, Audio Visual Production companies are positioned to offer better service, more qualified crews, better event design, and of course, higher-end equipment. When hiring an AV production company, the budget allocated to your crew actually goes to the crew. Because we don’t have to give 50% of your budget to the hotel, we can either do the same service for about half the price or increase the service level to double.

Better crew, better gear, better selection, better service. Repertoire’s crews are available for higher quality pre-production, service, production and post-production. AV staging and production companies generally bring in the staging and audio visual equipment that you need, and don’t try to sell you something, “in house.” As a competitive production company, we always have a much more experienced crew and better gear than a Hotel AV company.

Don’t be a Chad, Hire Repertoire

In the video, we see Chad suffers the side effects of high costs and low value for his production. Don’t be like Chad, avoid this classic production blunder, and never be forced to wear more flare!

Repertoire, A Full Service Audio Visual Production Company

Repertoire Productions is a full-service audio visual production company serving San Francisco, San Jose, and the greater Bay Area. We provide immersive AV solutions for parties, live events, and productions as well as projection mapping, video production, audio support, multi-camera broadcasting, live streaming, webcasting, and video conferencing. You name it, we have done it. Ask us about our Audio/Video Repertoire, we’re San Francisco AV Production at it’s finest!

A Touching Moment Inspired by Event Design

Repertoire recently worked with a client that wanted to bring their annual keynote conference to the next level. The year previous, this client worked with the in house hotel AV team. The CEO literally said, that last year’s PA system, “looked like something at my son’s Bar Mitzvah.” We designed a color adjustable backlit stage for this client with about 10 rounds of edits.

The PA was fit for a king. When the CEO walked into the room with his wife, they saw the set and gave each other a hug. We realize how important it is to impress your audience and bring value to our clients. Our clients pay our bills, and it’s really touching for us that we could design and build an event for them that brought them such relief, and joy. Needless to say, we’ll be collaborating again next year with the goal of upping the game even more.