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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
