Maya Dollarhide

Maya Dollarhide

Maya Dollarhide is an SDM contributing writer. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and worked as a managing editor in BNP Media’s Custom Publishing Division and is a former SDM associate editor.

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Build a Better Smarthome

Build a Better Smart Home

Homeowners are looking to the security market for more than keeping the bad guys out; they want integrated access control and video packages that will help them manage their residences, even when no one is home.
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Maya Dollarhide
July 6, 2015
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Motivational writer Napoleon Hill wrote in his 1937 bestseller, Think and Grow Rich, that “You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.” Fast-forward several decades and one could apply that same quote with a few liberties; for example, swap destiny, environment and life with the word “home” to describe what technology can do for the residential security market.


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