Author: Gerry Davila
For many seasonal business owners, there’s one part of the calendar that brings more stress than excitement. The busy season ends. The phones stop ringing. Equipment sits idle, and your best employees begin wondering where their next paycheck will come from. As an owner, you’re faced with a difficult decision: keep paying employees without enough work, lay them off and hope they’ll come back next year, or watch them leave for another company altogether.
If you own an inflatable rental business, landscaping and lawn care service, pressure washing company, window cleaning business, roofing company, or another service business, you’ve likely experienced this cycle every year. But what if your slow season could become one of your most profitable seasons?
Professional Christmas light installation has become one of the fastest-growing seasonal service industries in North America, and for thousands of business owners, it’s doing much more than generating additional income. It’s keeping crews employed, strengthening customer relationships, creating recurring annual revenue, and spreading genuine Christmas joy throughout their communities. Even better, getting started is far easier than most people imagine.
Turn Your Slow Season Into Your Most Profitable Season
Many service businesses naturally slowdown in the fall. Inflatable rentals begin winding down after Halloween, if not sooner. Landscaping slows as temperatures cool. Pressure washing and exterior cleaning become weather dependent.
Instead of watching revenue disappear for several months, many business owners are discovering that Christmas lighting fills that gap almost perfectly. As one seasonal business winds down, another begins ramping up. Rather than losing momentum, you’re simply transitioning your crews from one profitable service to another.
Essentially, that means more months of steady revenue, better annual cash flow, increased profitability, and a stronger, more stable business. Instead of surviving the offseason, you’re growing through it.
Keep Great Employees Working—and Keep Them Around
Finding dependable employees is difficult. Keeping them is even harder. When work dries up for several months, even your most loyal team members eventually need to find another source of income. Many never return, leaving you to recruit, interview, hire, and train an entirely new crew the following season. That’s expensive. It’s time consuming, and it slows your business every spring.
Adding Christmas lighting changes that equation. Rather than telling employees, “We’ll call you next year,” you’re able to offer meaningful work through the holiday season. Employees appreciate consistent paychecks. They continue sharpening their skills. They remain invested in your company culture.
When spring arrives, your experienced crew is already in place and ready to hit the ground running. That means there’s no frantic hiring, no weeks spent training replacements, and no loss of productivity.
For many owners, employee retention alone makes Christmas lighting worth the investment.
A Business That Practically Pays for Itself
One of the biggest misconceptions about starting a Christmas lighting business is that you need a large amount of startup capital. Many installers launch their businesses with very little money out of pocket.
Most professional Christmas lighting companies typically collect a 50% deposit before installation begins. That deposit is often enough to purchase the materials needed for the project. In other words, your first customer frequently funds your first installation.
Rather than borrowing money or carrying expensive inventory months in advance, the process is simple: Market your services. Book your first customer. Collect the 50% deposit. Purchase professional-grade lighting products. Complete the installation. Collect the remaining balance.
It’s one of the few businesses where positive cash flow can begin almost immediately. Profit margins are high compared to material costs, especially when contrasted with those ratios in other industries. It’s a win!
You Probably Already Own Most of What You Need
If you already operate a seasonal service business, you’re likely much closer to launching a Christmas lighting company than you realize. Many new installers already own a pickup truck or SUV, extension ladders, basic hand tools, and smartphones for estimating and communication That’s seriously enough to begin.
Professional-grade products necessary for the project, including commercial LED bulbs, socket cord, clips, timers, extension wire, and accessories, are readily available through Let’s Get Lit Supply. As your customer base grows, you simply reinvest your profits into additional inventory and equipment. Many successful installers have grown from a single truck into multi-crew operations while avoiding significant debt.
Learn From Professionals at Let’s Get Lit Supply
Here’s one of the industry’s biggest secrets. The most successful Christmas lighting companies aren’t necessarily the ones that know the most about lights. They’re the ones that understand systems. They know how to market, how to price for profit, how to sell, and how to install efficiently. They understand how to create repeat business and how to build a company instead of just completing jobs.
That’s why professional training is so valuable. Instead of spending years learning through costly mistakes, you can learn proven systems from experienced installers who have already built successful businesses.
Let’s Get Lit Supply offers hands-on Christmas lighting business training specifically designed for entrepreneurs who want to launch or expand a profitable holiday lighting business. Whether you’re starting from scratch or adding Christmas lighting to an existing service company, the training covers everything needed to build a successful operation, including:
- Business startup
- Marketing strategies
- Sales and estimating
- Professional pricing
- Roofline design
- Installation techniques
- Safety
- Commercial projects
- Product selection
- Removal and storage
- Customer experience
- Building repeat annual revenue
This isn’t just theory. It’s practical instruction from professionals who install Christmas lights every season and understand what it takes to succeed.
2026 Training Opportunities
Let’s Get Lit Supply is hosting live Christmas lighting business training events across the country throughout the 2026 season, beginning in Nashville on Sept 16th. These events combine classroom instruction with hands-on demonstrations, giving attendees the confidence to begin booking profitable jobs immediately.
All the current training dates, locations, pricing, and registration details can be found here:
Christmas Light Installation Training 2026!
Because class sizes are intentionally kept small to maximize learning, early registration is encouraged.
Every season, new business owners attend training hoping to generate a little extra winter income. Many end up building businesses they never imagined possible. Some begin as one-person operations. A few years later, they’re managing multiple crews and serving residential neighborhoods, HOAs, shopping centers, and commercial properties. Others simply wanted to keep their existing employees working through the winter—and found that Christmas lighting quickly became one of the most profitable divisions of their company.
The common thread isn’t luck. It’s taking action.
There’s Never Been a Better Time
Demand for professional Christmas lighting continues to grow every year as homeowners and businesses increasingly choose convenience over climbing ladders themselves. In fact, studies have shown that businesses with holiday lights generally increase their revenue compared to businesses without.
At the same time, most markets and communities still have room for additional professional installers. If you already own a seasonal service business, the transition couldn’t make more sense. Keep your crews working. Generate revenue during your slow months. Build lasting customer relationships which can be used to service stack. Create recurring annual income.
More importantly, spend every holiday season helping families experience the wonder of Christmas. That’s a business worth building.
Ready to Get Started?
If you’re looking for a way to transform your slow season into a profitable one while keeping your employees working and bringing Christmas magic to your community, professional Christmas lighting may be exactly the opportunity you’ve been searching for. The startup costs are remarkably low. The business model is proven. Customers return year after year.
And with professional training from Let’s Get Lit Supply, you don’t have to figure it out alone.
Visit https://letsgetlitsupply.com/collections/training to view upcoming training dates, reserve your seat, and discover how this holiday season could become the beginning of your newest—and perhaps most rewarding—business venture.
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Submitted by: Gerry Davila, Let’s Get Lit Supply
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