Tag: American Fire & Security
Time Warner going retail with IntelligentHome
June 19, 2013Tess Nacelewicz
NEW YORK—Time Warner Cable is joining the new trend of retailing home security by offering IntelligentHome, its home security/home management product, in its several hundred retail stores nationwide, according to Adam Mayer, VP of IntelligentHome.“We have retail stores where customers today can go to either subscribe to our other products—video, voice and data—[where] they can go with customer care issues, [and where] they can exchange equipment, so we certainly plan and we've...
This Blog's on Fire (And Other Stuff)
Getting to know the media can improve ROI
June 28, 2012Tess Nacelewicz
Erica Wood, co-owner and chief security officer of Dayton, Ohio-based American Fire & Security, said she kept getting turned down by a business newspaper in her community when she tried to get it to publish news about her company.
It wasn't until she met with the publication's editor that she found out the paper only wanted stories focused on business growth. Now Wood knows how to tailor press releases about her company to win the interest of that publication.
Talking to editors and...
'20 under 40' 2012 - Erica Wood
May 22, 2012Tess Nacelewicz
Erica Wood, 33
Co-owner, chief security officer
American Fire & Security
Dayton, Ohio
How did you get into the security industry?
When I met my husband back in the '90s, he was in the security guard business, and I got involved and got really excited about meeting business owners and helping them out with their security. And I began to expand the business out into electronic security, and eventually the electronic security division of our business just spun off into American Fire & Security....