It is 4:30 on a Saturday in early December. Your crew just lit the last tree, the homeowner walks out with her grandkids to see the house for the first...
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A wholesale buying guide to the four C9 bulb finishes contractors stock, and which one to lead with on your truck.
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Yard signs for Christmas light installers are one of the cheapest ways to get your first jobs. You do not need a big ad budget to start. You need signs...
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You are standing in a Scottsdale driveway in October. Single-story tile roof, low pitch, maybe sixty feet of roofline worth lighting, and the homeowner wants the best house on the...
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It is November 14th. Thirty-eight degrees, raining sideways, nine houses on today's board—three across town, two of them two-story, and one homeowner who has already called the office twice asking...
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You are on the driveway in August with a homeowner who watched her neighbor's roofline glow orange on Halloween, red and green in December, and red-white-and-blue on the Fourth of...
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It is the last week of August. Your best HOA account emails and asks what you can put at the front entrance this year that nobody else in town has....
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A property manager for a 62-home HOA replies to your bid at 9pm: "Send your license number and certificate of insurance before your crew is on the property." You have...
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The callback comes the Saturday after the install. The garland over the front door looked full and even when your crew drove away Tuesday—now the center is drooping six inches,...
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The email looks like a gift: a property manager wants a quote for Christmas lights on 44 townhomes. Then you open your pricing sheet, built for one house at a...
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