Invisilights
Permanent Holiday Lighting
Customizable Lights for Any Event
This should include footage of lights and channel along with any Extensions or jumps you'll need to make
This is the most important step to planning out an installation, Without knowing where the controller will be you'll have no way to know the right materials to buy when it comes to extensions and accessories.
What Voltage system you want to use 24V or 36V
This is a decision you will make based on convince and efficiency, the most important factor with this will be the footage of each lighting run. If the total footage of a run is over 100' you'll need to either power inject on that run or switch to the 36V system that can go up to 200' before needing power injection.
By mapping out the installation you'll be able to better understand and plan out the install giving you a better idea of what all you'll need to purchase to complete the job.
take the measurements from your map and add up the total number of materials you'll need.
For the Map out example above the total material breakdown is:
System Voltage: 36V
Color of channel: Cameo
Channel Type: Hat
Total Lighted Footage: 160'
Power injection: NO
Controller: 1
Channel: 27- 6' sticks
Screws- 200
Lights: 175
1' extensions-7
6' Extensions-2
12' extensions-2
25- extensions- 1
Y Cables- 3
End caps- pack of 10
-Controller
-Lights
-Channel
-Screws
-Extension cables
-Y Cable
-End Caps
- Signal boosters
-Power injection material
The controller will come with 3 outputs for your lighting runs, each 36V output can do a Max of 200', the 24V system can do a max of 100'. After that max you'll need to inject power. After you do so you can go an additional 100' with the 24V or 200' with the 36V system.
Power injection is needed due to voltage drop, voltage drop happens due to the length traveled away from the power source along with the gauge of the wire. due to the gauge of wire the lights and extensions run on it drops in voltage enough at 100' with the 24V system and 200' with the 36V system to effect the lights performance requiring a addition of power (Power Injection)
Materials needed for power injection 36V
Power injection pig female pig tale
Power injection Extension cables
Power injection T Cable.
Materials needed to Power inject 24V
16/2 - 12/2 Low voltage landscaping wire
Cut and Splice T cable
Water Proof Wire connectors
Enhance your installation offerings with Invisilights, the premier permanent lighting solution designed for seamless integration into any property’s exterior architecture.
Crafted with high-quality aluminum channels and advanced LED technology, Invisilights delivers durability and superior energy efficiency—key selling points for your clients seeking long-lasting, cost-effective lighting solutions. Our system not only provides brilliant illumination but also boosts the aesthetic appeal and functionality of any home.
Offer your clients peace of mind with our robust 5-year warranty, ensuring reliable performance and minimal maintenance needs. This warranty supports your commitment to quality and customer satisfaction, making it easier for you to sell and install with confidence.
Our flexible, programmable system allows you to meet any client’s specific desires—from subtle accents to full-scale holiday displays—making it an adaptable choice for various applications. With Invisilights, you can cater to a wide range of preferences and needs, increasing your market reach and customer retention.
Choose Invisilights for your installations and add a transformative product to your portfolio that will impress clients and ensure your services remain in demand for years to come.
The InvisiLights kit is comprehensively equipped to ensure you have everything you need for installation. Each kit includes:
27 sticks of 6-foot Aluminum Channel to house and protect the lighting elements.
150 feet of dynamic RGBW LED Lights, which includes 23 sets of 6-count and 14 sets of 1-count lights, allowing for extensive coverage and diverse configuration options.
2 Data Boosters to enhance signal strength across the lighting installation, ensuring consistent control and color output.
A 320W Power Supply capable of supporting up to 190 puck lights, providing ample power for even the most extensive setups.
1 GFCI Outlet Adapter to ensure safe outdoor electrical connections.
1 Controller that allows you to manage and customize the lighting effects easily.
While the Invisilights kit comes with all the essential components for a standard installation, there are a couple of scenarios where you might need additional items:
Jumper Wires: Depending on the layout of your installation and the number of gaps or 'jumps' between the sections of lights, you may require jumper wires. These wires help bridge the gaps without losing the continuity of the light sequence, ensuring a smooth and uniform display across more complex architectures.
Data Boosters: If any section of your lighting setup is more than 15 feet away from the control box, additional data boosters will be necessary. Data boosters help maintain the integrity and brightness of the lights over longer distances, ensuring consistent performance throughout your installation.
Yes, you can select your preferred color for the aluminum channel to match your home’s exterior or personal taste. Please make sure to specify your color choice in the notes at checkout when you place your order.
Each component in the InvisiLights kit plays a crucial role in creating an effective and stunning lighting display:
Aluminum Channels: Provide a durable, weather-resistant housing for the LED lights, which helps in maintaining a clean and nearly invisible look during the day.
RGBW LED Lights: Offer vibrant, full-spectrum color and white light combinations, making it perfect for any occasion from festive holidays to elegant ambient lighting.
Data Boosters: Ensure that the signal remains strong across longer distances, which is crucial for larger installations.
Power Supply: Designed to efficiently handle the energy needs of the system without overload, ensuring safety and durability.
GFCI Outlet Adapter: Adds an extra layer of safety by protecting against electrical shorts and surges, particularly important in outdoor settings.
Controller: Provides the flexibility to customize and control the lighting sequences, colors, and patterns right from your smartphone or controller, adding convenience and advanced functionality to your lighting system.
Absolutely! Invisilights are designed for versatile use throughout all seasons. Whether you're celebrating a special occasion, setting a mood for a party, Love your favorite sports team, or simply enhancing your home's ambiance, our lighting systems provide the perfect solution for any event, big or small.
Yes, Invisilights feature advanced programmable settings that allow you to schedule lighting for specific events and automate timers. This functionality ensures that your lighting preferences are perfectly aligned with your lifestyle, turning on and off at predetermined times without any manual intervention.
Absolutely, Invisilights are equipped with RGBW technology, which includes a dedicated white LED alongside the standard red, green, and blue LEDs. This addition allows the system to produce authentic warm white, soft white, and various other shades of white with greater accuracy and intensity compared to traditional RGB systems. This capability ensures that you can effortlessly tailor the lighting to fit the desired ambiance and aesthetic of any environment, providing precise control over both vibrant colors and the subtlety of different white tones.
Our products are shipped directly from our warehouse using reliable shipping carriers to ensure timely and safe delivery. Each product is securely packaged to prevent damage during transit, and we provide tracking information so you can follow your order’s journey to your doorstep.
The controller and power supplies for Invisilights are typically installed in an accessible location such as a garage or utility room. These components connect to your home’s WiFi network, allowing seamless control over the lighting system via our user-friendly mobile app.
How long do Invisilights last?
Invisilights are engineered to last, with each LED bulb boasting a lifespan of over 50,000 hours. Given a typical usage of 10 hours per night, this translates to approximately 5,000 nights. This means your Invisilights could illuminate your home's exterior for nearly 14 years under these conditions, ensuring that your investment not only adds beauty but also long-term value to your property.
Yes, all Invisilights are fully dimmable. This feature allows you to adjust the intensity of the light to suit various occasions, from a soft glow for a romantic evening to bright, vibrant colors for a festive celebration.
What types of custom channels are available?
Invisilights offers two types of custom channels, available in 40 different colors, ensuring a nearly invisible installation. These channels are designed to blend seamlessly with your home’s architecture, providing discreet yet effective lighting.
Yes, the Invisilights system supports multiple zones which can be controlled independently or synchronized. This functionality allows for intricate lighting designs that can vary across different areas of your home, enhancing the overall impact and utility of your installation.
Permanent lighting refers to architectural-grade lighting systems that are installed permanently on your property to provide year-round illumination.
Unlike traditional holiday lighting, which is typically temporary and used only during specific seasons, permanent lighting is installed once and can be used throughout the year for various occasions
In the competitive world of Christmas lights installation, many entrepreneurs find themselves struggling to grow beyond a certain point. Some installers reach $50,000 in their first season and plateau, while others push to $150,000, $500,000, or even seven figures. The difference isn't luck or market size—it's focus. The principle that "what you water grows" is fundamental to building a Christmas lights business that can scale to impressive heights.
As Christmas light installers, we face a unique challenge: the seasonal nature of our business. When January rolls around and the last lights come down, there's a natural temptation to immediately pivot to other services—pressure washing, landscape lighting, gutter cleaning—to maintain income throughout the year.
While diversification seems logical, it often leads to scattered focus. When you divide your attention between multiple service lines, none receives the concentrated energy needed to truly flourish. Just like dividing a gallon of water among ten plants instead of focusing it on one or two, your growth becomes stunted across all ventures.
Many of the most successful Christmas lights businesses have grown to seven figures by focusing intensely on Christmas lights year-round—not just during installation season.
Despite being a seasonal service, successful Christmas light installation businesses operate on a 12-month cycle:
January-February: Takedowns, inventory management, and beginning early commercial outreach
March-May: Active commercial client acquisition, HOA presentations, and system refinement
June-August: Residential pre-booking, staff recruitment, and inventory ordering
September-November: Installation season preparation, marketing execution, and hiring completion
November-December: Peak installation season
Year-round: Building relationships, refining systems, and planning growth
By treating Christmas lights as a year-round business rather than a seasonal side gig, you can develop the focus needed to scale beyond what most installers ever achieve.
Residential installations can form the backbone of a starting Christmas lights business, but commercial accounts are typically the key to achieving substantial scale. HOAs, shopping centers, office complexes, and municipalities offer several advantages:
Larger contract values ($10,000-$100,000+ per season)
Earlier commitment (often booking 6-9 months in advance)
Multi-year potential with annual renewals
Less price sensitivity than residential customers
Fewer decision-makers to manage (one property manager vs. dozens of homeowners)
Securing these accounts requires persistent effort. Successful installers often report making 15-25 outreach calls daily for weeks or months before landing significant commercial accounts. This persistence separates those who scale to six and seven figures from those who remain small.
The most effective approach is simple but demanding: identify potential commercial clients, make consistent contact through calls and emails, build relationships rather than pushing for immediate sales, and follow up persistently until you secure the opportunity to bid.
A critical milestone in scaling any Christmas lights business is transitioning from installer to business owner. Many entrepreneurs hit an income ceiling because they're trapped performing $20-30 per hour installation tasks instead of focusing on $100-1000 per hour business development activities.
To grow beyond a one-crew operation, you must:
Hire and train reliable installation teams
Develop precise installation systems that maintain quality without your presence
Focus your time on sales, marketing, and commercial relationship building
Leverage your unique expertise for business growth rather than daily installation
This transition isn't easy—it requires overcoming fears about quality control and developing trust in your team. For many installers, the second season becomes the proving ground for this transition, allowing them to scale significantly in their third year.
One of the most common limitations to growth is inadequate pricing. Many Christmas lights installers undervalue their services, failing to account for the true costs of:
Equipment depreciation
Off-season business development
Takedown labor and logistics
Storage costs throughout the year
Warranty service and bulb replacements
Your time as the business owner and manager
Successful installers typically charge a minimum of $10 per foot for residential installations, with commercial pricing structured strategically based on scope and complexity. Remember that proper pricing:
Attracts quality clients who value professional service
Provides the capital needed to invest in growth
Allows you to hire and retain excellent staff
Funds your marketing and business development
Underpricing creates the illusion of success during installation season, but the reality becomes clear during takedown and off-season when cash flow tightens. Price appropriately from the beginning to fund sustainable growth.
Effective marketing for Christmas lights installation requires both precision and persistence. Rather than scattering efforts across numerous channels, successful businesses typically:
Identify 2-3 marketing methods that work in their specific market
Track results meticulously to understand return on investment
Scale successful channels aggressively rather than constantly switching tactics
Begin marketing campaigns months before the competition
For residential clients, this might include strategic yard signs with tracking numbers, targeted social media advertising, and proactive outreach to past clients. For commercial accounts, it typically involves direct outreach, relationship building with property managers, and strategic networking.
Whatever marketing approaches you choose, commit to them fully rather than abandoning them prematurely when instant results don't materialize. Marketing momentum builds over time, and consistency often determines success.
As your Christmas lights business grows beyond what you can personally oversee, systems become your critical path to success. These include:
Lead qualification: Efficiently identifying which prospects match your ideal client profile
Estimation: Standardized pricing and bidding processes that ensure profitability
Installation protocols: Step-by-step methods ensuring consistent quality across crews
Inventory management: Tracking materials, ordering efficiently, and minimizing waste
Client communication: Standard procedures for initial contact, installation day, and follow-up
Takedown coordination: Organized scheduling and execution of removals
Storage systems: Proper labeling, organization, and maintenance during off-season
Commercial relationship management: Structured follow-up and communication throughout the year
Without these systems, growth becomes chaotic and ultimately unsustainable. With them, you create a business that can scale predictably while maintaining quality and profitability.
Your ability to scale ultimately depends on building a reliable team. For Christmas lights installation, this presents unique challenges due to the seasonal nature of the work. Successful businesses address this through:
Partnering with complementary seasonal businesses: Finding workers whose primary jobs slow during winter (roofers, landscapers, etc.)
Creating exceptional seasonal compensation: Offering premium pay for quality seasonal work
Developing clear advancement paths: Showing ambitious team members how they can grow with your company
Focusing on culture and work environment: Making your company the best place to work during the season
Building year-round core staff: Keeping key team members engaged in off-season planning and preparation
The quality of your team will ultimately determine your capacity for growth, so invest accordingly in finding, training, and retaining excellent people.
The most sustainable motivation for building a successful Christmas lights business isn't money alone. The seasonal demands are too intense and the work too challenging to be driven solely by profit.
Successful installers are typically motivated by:
Creating a magical experience for clients during the holiday season
Building something their family can be proud of
Providing exceptional seasonal opportunities for their team
Transforming their communities during the holidays
Creating freedom and opportunity for themselves through entrepreneurship
When you connect your daily business activities to this deeper purpose, you'll find the resilience needed to overcome challenges and the passion required to truly excel in this industry.
The path to building a six or seven-figure Christmas lights installation business isn't mysterious or complex, but it does require focused effort:
Treat Christmas lights as your primary business focus year-round
Build systems that enable quality without your constant presence
Transition from installer to business owner by getting off the roof
Pursue commercial accounts with persistent, professional outreach
Price appropriately to fund sustainable growth
Market consistently with emphasis on tracking and scaling what works
Build a reliable team with clear systems and expectations
Connect your work to a deeper purpose that sustains your motivation
By applying these principles with disciplined focus—truly watering what you want to grow—you can build a Christmas lights installation business that provides not just seasonal income, but true prosperity and fulfillment.
Answer: Divide your year into strategic phases: January-February for takedowns and inventory; March-May for commercial client acquisition; June-August for pre-booking and staff planning; September-October for final preparation; and November-December for installations. By maintaining this cycle, you'll build momentum year-round rather than starting from scratch each season.
Answer: Begin transitioning off the roof during your first season and aim to be primarily in a management role by your second season. Your time is more valuable in sales and business development ($100-1000/hour) than in installation work ($20-30/hour). Hire and train reliable crew members so you can focus on growth activities that only you can perform.
Answer: Start early—ideally 6-9 months before installation season. Identify potential clients (HOAs, shopping centers, office complexes), make 15-25 calls daily during your acquisition phase, and focus on relationship building. Prepare professional proposals with photos of your best work, and follow up consistently. Most competitors wait until September to begin outreach, giving you a significant advantage by starting in March.
Answer: Charge a minimum of $10 per foot for residential installations, with premium options at $12-15+ per foot. Commercial pricing should be strategic based on scope and complexity. Account for all costs: materials, installation labor, takedown labor, warranty service, storage, and management. Proper pricing attracts quality clients while providing capital for growth and profitability.
Answer: Partner with workers from complementary seasonal businesses (roofers, landscapers) whose work slows in winter. Offer premium pay ($25-45/hour) to attract reliable workers. Create documented systems that make training efficient. Build a positive culture that makes your company the best seasonal workplace. Maintain communication with top performers year-round and offer early commitment bonuses for returning crew members.
Answer: Focus on 2-3 channels and execute them exceptionally well: yard signs at active installations (with tracking numbers), strategic social media advertising starting in September, early-bird promotions for returning clients, and direct outreach to high-end neighborhoods. For commercial clients, begin marketing 6-9 months before season; for residential, 2-3 months before. Track results meticulously to identify your most profitable marketing channels.
Answer: Develop detailed takedown protocols where each client's lights are labeled and inventoried. Create a standardized storage system organized by client or product type. Assess inventory post-season and order new materials by June-July to avoid supply chain issues. Maintain a 20-30% buffer beyond projected needs for growth opportunities and replacements. Conduct mid-season inventory checks to prevent shortages during peak installation periods.
Answer: Wait until your Christmas lights business reaches at least $500,000 in annual revenue with strong systems in place. You should have reliable management, documented procedures, healthy profit margins, and clear capacity to handle additional complexity. Many successful businesses add complementary services like permanent landscape lighting only after fully maximizing their core business. Adding services prematurely typically dilutes focus and stunts growth.
Answer: Structure pricing to include 50% deposits at booking. Secure commercial contracts 6-9 months in advance. Offer early booking incentives that generate summer revenue. Build a substantial cash reserve during peak season (25-30% of annual revenue). Create careful monthly budgets for off-season expenses. Aim to secure 40-50% of your annual revenue through deposits before installation season begins, and manage takedown timing to collect final payments before major expenses in January.
Answer: Develop and document systems for: lead qualification, estimation, installation protocols, quality control, client communication, crew management, takedown coordination, inventory management, storage, and commercial relationship management. Start by documenting one system at a time, beginning with whichever process currently causes the most bottlenecks. As you add team members, these documented systems ensure consistency and quality while reducing your personal involvement in daily operations.
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