By Mike Gambino I heard of another landscape lighting specialist business going out of business this week. Thought I'd focus my blog article this week on a subject to benefit fellow specialist landscape lighters. That is such an awesome truck! You must be making big money to...
By Mike Gambino This is the 4 bedroom, 4 and 1/2 bath mountain cabin home where Frank B Nightingale wrote his books after retirement from the Garden lighting industry. This unique 'get-a-way' was originally built by Published Author Frank B. Nightingale who was born on December 26,...
By Mike Gambino In recent blog articles my friend and colleague mark Carlson has documented a trend taking place all across the landscape lighting community today...
By Mike Gambino Just recently, I received an email from a long-time customer. I did not build their landscape lighting system initially, but I have been cleaning and putting band-aids on their chronically problematic system since the start of our professional business relationship. Finally we were...
By Mike Gambino This article was scheduled to post last week when it would have been more time appropriate however it got bumped at the last minute. Anyhow here it is maybe a week late but still relevant. The holidays are nice: we take off some time,...
By Mike Gambino You have seen those home renovation shows on various television networks that show you how to completely replace a kitchen in two days for $500 or to correct the sloppy and often dangerous work of an unprofessional contractor in just a week, or...
By Mike Gambino 1. Are you a licensed landscape contractor that specializes in system construction and lighting design and may I please see a copy of your contractor's license? Most landscape lighting designers have a copy of their landscape contractors license in their design portfolio or have...
By Mike Gambino When you think about it, we work in a strange industry… an industry unlike any other. Often we encounter people that not only aren’t sure exactly what it is we do, but also aren’t sure they even want or need what we offer. This...
By Mike Gambino Many landscape lighting installers do not understand their overhead and arbitrarily price jobs by the number of fixtures rather than the time it takes to do the job. To make matters worse landscape lighters without an extensive number of systems completed do not...
By Mike Gambino Growing as a landscape lighter and reaching a professional level involves developing certain habits among other things. These are practices that come with time, as well as plenty of trial and error. Here are some of these productive habits 1. Valuing time Besides being artists, lighting designer/builders...
