Guides for Christmas lighting contractors
How to estimate a job, how to show a customer what it will look like, and what software a lighting business genuinely needs. Written for people quoting real houses, by the people building C9X PRO.
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How to estimate a Christmas light installation job
Measure the roofline, count what it takes, price the access, then decide the margin — in that order, and without measuring the same house twice.
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How to create a Christmas light mockup a customer believes
A mockup wins the reaction. Whether it also wins the job depends on whether anything underneath it can be installed for the number you quoted.
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What software a Christmas lighting business actually needs
Six jobs, and they are not all the same job. What to buy first, what a spreadsheet still does fine, and where one tool doing two of them saves a re-measure.
What C9X PRO does
- Christmas light designTrace a photo of the house and design the display on it.
- Holiday lighting estimatingFootage, materials and a priced quote from the same trace.
- Permanent lighting designYear-round architectural lighting, measured the same way.
- Christmas light proposalsA customer-facing proposal, then the crew's work order.
Try it on this week’s bids
One photograph, traced once, producing the footage, the price, the proposal and the crew’s work order.
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