Author: gambino
24 Nov Be Prepared Before contacting a Landscape Lighting Designer Builder
By Mike Gambino Choosing a landscape lighting design build company is a decision that requires some research on your part as a consumer if you want the best results for your project. It surprises me how many who contact my company requesting an onsite consultation don't know...
17 Nov How Gambino Landscape Lighting determines if a project is a good fit
By Mike Gambino There have been very few instances where we have taken on a project that I thought was a good fit, but ended up being a bad one. Although sometimes it happens to all professional design build landscape lighting contractors. We do our best to...
10 Nov Every landscape lighting design builder makes mistakes; How they respond will define them
By Mike Gambino It’s going to happen. Every landscape lighting design build contractor makes mistakes. Some of them are big and can impact client relationships, while others are more internal and affect workflow and processes. There’s one similarity though – how we recover from these mistakes will say more...
03 Nov Why are most clients not forthcoming about their Landscape Lighting budgets to Design and Build contractors?
By Mike Gambino Speaking from the standpoint of a professional landscape lighting designer builder, As a potential buyer of landscape lighting Design and Build services, When you conceal your budget to a contractor you short change your project and the contractors efforts. We need to know...
27 Oct Buyer Beware: As a buyer of professional landscape lighting Design and Installation services you really need to be careful when choosing your service provider pt.2
By Mike Gambino In last week's blog article I took offense to a recent landscape trade magazine article that was written by an anonymous author with the intent to entice more general contracting non specialist tradespersons to offer landscape lighting as an add on service. This...
20 Oct Buyer Beware: As a buyer of professional landscape lighting Design and Installation services you really need to be careful when choosing your service provider pt.1
By Mike Gambino This is going to be a 2 part article (look for part 2 next Friday) because I have a lot to say about this topic. I have already said this multiple times and in multiple ways and in multiple blog articles over the...
13 Oct Consumers Buying landscape lighting products online vs. through a design/build professional
By Mike Gambino Due to the advent of the Internet in the past 20 years, an entirely new market has emerged for consumers. Thanks to the Internet, consumers are much more informed about the products they buy — including how much it costs, since customers can...
06 Oct How long is your Landscape Lighting System warranty, what does it cover, and how is it funded?
By Mike Gambino If you hire a Design and Build contractor for a landscape lighting project, you’ll want some assurances in the form of guarantees or warranties. Knowing the importance of warranties, some companies even give unrealistically long warranties such as 10 years, 20 years or...
29 Sep Games Buyers of landscape lighting systems and services play
By Mike Gambino It’s a strange fact, but a fact nonetheless, that no one wins the race to the bottom in the home improvement industry. As a company, you put in your new LED landscape lighting system proposal for $20,000, a competitor puts in his for...