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How to start a Christmas Lighting Business
Rating: 4.1 out of 5(52 ratings)
839 students

How to start a Christmas Lighting Business

This course now includes free Christmas Light Estimating Software! Easy, Fast, Accurate; ESTIMATES.
Created byKevin Daly
Last updated 12/2018
English

What you'll learn

  • By the end of this course you will know how to get leads, estimate jobs, sell effectively, prep your vehicles and crew, and also know exactly how install lights safely and quickly.

Course content

2 sections19 lectures5h 12m total length
  • Must have materials4:36

    Here's what you'll need to stock up on to make your life easy this winter.

  • Tool tips3:22

    Load up your tool belt! Get to work!

  • Test before installing1:29

    Seems like common sense, but it isn't!

  • Estimating copy10:48

    How to estimate. See all attached forms for more details and templates from our sales process. Three (3) audio files will walk you through 3 of the documents.

  • Installing from your estimate3:35

    How to install from your estimate. After you fully review all of the audio files and documents in Lecture #4 - watch the resource video attached to this lecture for how to create super clean photos of the house from your sketch to include in your formal proposal.

  • Installing gutter lights5:48

    Gutter light installation.

  • Installing roofline lights1:56

    Roofline or gable end installation.

  • Installing doorway lights2:16

    Doorway light installation.

  • Installing window lights1:48

    Window light installation. If you run short like you saw in the video here, attach an additional strand and keep wrapping until your out of lights - simple, easy, clean.

  • Pricing methods2:14
  • Troubleshooting4:00

    How to troubleshoot lighting issues in the field. Check out the additional attachments in the lecture to close out jobs once a for all, eliminate return visits, troubleshoot production issues, and learn how to structure your business to free up a TON of your time.

  • Un-installing8:08
  • Quick Marketing Extras1:57

    Some extra marketing help!

Requirements

  • You should have 3 years of construction experience. Not necessary, but it will help the learning curve.

Description

Christmas Home Lighting Team teaches you exactly how to open your holiday lighting business in this course.

It's easy, we've done it with great success for the last 6 years, and recorded our little lessons every step of the way. (Last year we brought in $52,000 in revenue, and only spent $2,600 marketing our service)

What you'll learn...

  1. Unique and fresh ways of marketing your new service

  2. How to train yourself or your crew to install lights safely AND quickly

  3. What you should recommend to clients

  4. How to sell effectively

  5. How to price your work

  6. How to estimate material needs

  7. What type of lights work best for each application

  8. How to schedule effectively for maximum profits, and minimum problems

  9. How to pay your crew to align everyone's motives

  10. How to lock in profit margins

  11. What jobs to avoid (CAUTION!)

  12. How to fix lighting outages

  13. Preferred vendors to use - pricing vs. quality vs. availability

  14. How to convert your current customer base into Holiday Lighting clients, and vice versa

  15. How to ensure business success with our full fledged troubleshooting videos/ written guide

You'll get copies of 18 documents which include all of our actual proposal blanks, sales scripts, flyers, and so much more.

Hands on lessons are given via 12 separate videos on countless valuable insights and tips on all subjects from installation to sales to troubleshooting lighting issues, so be prepared to pause and take notes.

BONUS! - you'll even learn how to craft our innovative "whiz-wand" which makes uninstalling lights a breeze. We haven't used a ladder to uninstall lights in 3 years, because of this tool. That's allowed us to make a ton more money with uninstalls (we charge to uninstall also, and they store the lights!!!). We can do up to 5 per day at an average rate of $300 each.

The Holiday Lighting service industry is sometimes written off in the contracting community as something that has limited potential. Because of that view point, the competition that does exist in this arena cannot even compete! Their sales processes, installation processes, scheduling systems, and actual know-how causes them to give up before they've even seen a dime - which in short means that we win... EVERY-TIME.

Invest in yourself, invest in your business - Our average job size in Princeton, NJ last year was $1,100 to install only - why should you care?

  • You already have the tools, if your a contractor

  • You already have the guys

  • You'll make the money back from this course after your first job

  • You'll learn from 5 years worth of lessons and mistakes

  • You'll make your winter financial outlook change drastically (finally, in a good way.)

  • You can keep your crew off of unemployment, and happily working

  • You don't have to pray for snow to plow

  • You don't have to sell your services a bottom dollar rates just to keep everyone working

  • THE LIST GOES ON...

In closing, the lessons that are taught in this course (regarding pay structure and scheduling) can be applied to your other contracting endeavors, which really set you up as a business owner to stop letting your business run YOU!

YOUR SUPPOSED TO BE RUNNING YOUR BUSINESS! (I mean it's not even alive....... or is it???) 

Who this course is for:

  • Seasonal contractors - Painting, Powerwashing, Window washing, Landscapers, Farmers, Roofers, and anyone else who has a hard time keeping business coming in during the winter.