How to start a Christmas Lighting Business

This course now includes free Christmas Light Estimating Software! Easy, Fast, Accurate; ESTIMATES.

4.20 (37 reviews)
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English
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Entrepreneurship
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How to start a Christmas Lighting Business
789
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5 hours
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Dec 2018
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$39.99
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What you will 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.

Why take this course?

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???) 

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Reviews

Paul
September 2, 2023
He really did a great job explaining both the technical and business aspects of the holiday lighting business. He explained the tools and equipment you need, how to successfully install lights around doors/windows/gutters/etc, how to market your business, and what to say to prospective customers. I would highly recommend this course!
Marvin
November 28, 2020
the instructor went beyond the course in starting a business.some of his instruction was about life and how you should live it to be successful. Follow up on everything in life.
Travis
October 29, 2020
The bare bone basics on the installing. Focusing on residential customers who get their own lights. Definitely don't recommend using cheap lights if you guarantee your service. Business model is based off finding sub contractor's to do installs for $20 a hour. Worth what i paid but wont take us to the next level.
Jose
September 28, 2019
All this info can easily be found on youtube. Nothing was learned from this course. If you're interested in learning about this business watch youtube instead and join facebook groups dedicated to this business. Literally useless.
Joseph
September 17, 2019
This course answered many questions I had about the physical process of installing lights. It also covered two top concerns I had regarding sales and marketing and profitability. I also like how I can go back to any segments of the course to review key points.
Jorge
November 12, 2018
This course so far has been really amazing and a whole bunch better than some of the more expensive courses I have looked over.
Craig
February 12, 2018
I am really pleased with this quality of information in this course. At first I was skeptical of what I would actually learn, but once I got past the technical section of the course and into the 7 weeks of webinars - I learned A-LOT. Thank you for putting all of this together in such a broken down and easy to understand manner.
Thomas
February 5, 2018
This course seriously got me and my crew through the cold winter. Every year i try and make ends meet with trying to find work for my guys and my self. This help bring in close to $14,000 in sales this year. This will improve how to estimate properly as well as being professional enough to make the sale. This is a must buy for years come!!! Thanks Kevin for all your hard work man! You honestly make anyone want to succeed.
Dean
January 28, 2018
As a skilled tradesmen I like how this is taught in a way that can explain to someone without any experience doing any kind of handy work.

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