{"id":973,"date":"2014-08-18T12:57:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/night-scenes.com\/?p=973"},"modified":"2014-08-18T12:57:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T18:57:07","slug":"why-do-we-start-promoting-christmas-lighting-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/night-scenes.com\/2014\/08\/18\/why-do-we-start-promoting-christmas-lighting-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Landscape Lighting: Why Do We Start Promoting Christmas Lighting In August?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI can\u2019t believe their talking about Christmas lighting in August! Why can\u2019t businesses just take one holiday at a time?\u201d<\/p>\n

Does this sound familiar?\u00a0 It does to me.\u00a0 I used to be one of the people who said it all the time.\u00a0 Heck, I want to celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving just like everyone else; but as I look at things from the other side of the fence as a business owner, I really don\u2019t have much choice.\u00a0 Here\u2019s why.\"HSB<\/a><\/p>\n

The Christmas\/holiday season is our busiest time of the year, by far.\u00a0 Yes – we are quite busy in the spring and early fall, but when the holidays start getting close, we have to find a whole other gear and really kick it in.\u00a0 The hectic work schedule requires some serious planning because most people want Christmas lights up by Thanksgiving, but not before Halloween.\u00a0 This is usually a three week window in which we have to take care of all of our existing holiday lighting clients, as well as new clients we may be serving.\u00a0 Since we\u2019ve been involved in the holiday lighting game for about eight years now, you can imagine how many projects that could be (it\u2019s a lot). We have Christmas lighting projects in Austin, Lakeway, Bee Cave, Spicewood, Horseshoe Bay, Kingsland, Georgetown and pretty much all over the Hill Country. \u00a0It\u2019s a lot of work to get done in a very short amount of time; and if Texas dishes up some bad weather, it can get a bit exasperating for all of us \u2013 clients and technicians. So that\u2019s one reason we start so early.<\/p>\n

And if I don\u2019t get my own Christmas lighting up before Halloween \u2013 then it\u2019s just days before Christmas when my neighbors see that the \u201clighting guy\u201d finally has lights.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another reason.\u00a0 Our Christmas lighting suppliers usually offer us a discount if we place our orders by the end of August.\u00a0 This is why we offer a discount to new holiday lighting clients if they sign up in the month of August.\u00a0 If we get a discount, our new clients get one too.\u00a0 This is the only time of the year when we can really offer discounts because it\u2019s the only time of the year that we get a price break on the products we buy.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t everyone want to take advantage of a good sale?<\/p>\n

One last reason is cash flow.\u00a0 August is probably our slowest month of the year.\u00a0 It is way too hot outside for people to really enjoy their landscape, so they rarely even think about landscape lighting.\u00a0 In the spring and fall, however, they can\u2019t spend enough time outdoors – and our phone and email explodes.\u00a0 In August, not so much.\u00a0 We have some projects to do, of course, but we don\u2019t have quite enough work to keep all of our team busy full time.\u00a0 (We also try hard not to send anyone home and short them on hours unless they want some time off.)\u00a0 So we go through all of the Christmas lights we are storing for our existing clients (that\u2019s part of the deal!) to make sure everything is working properly.\u00a0 We replace any burned out lamps, check for any wire damage and give everything a good once-over. When it\u2019s time to install those lights, everything goes faster.<\/p>\n

Those are the primary reasons why WE start talking about Christmas in August. Thinking about it now, I realize we probably should start in July – but I just can\u2019t bring myself to do it!<\/p>\n

If you are in our central Texas service area, now is the best time to contact us<\/span><\/a> for your Christmas lighting so you can save yourself some money and us some headaches, OK?\u00a0 Installation still happens when you want it, but signed contracts make everyone happy. Contact us here and we\u2019ll take care of everything to ensure you get stress-free holiday lighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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