Our story
Let’s Get Lit started as a side hustle after a walk home with a neighbor. It became a South Louisiana lighting company by doing the same thing Nick tells every new entrepreneur: just go.
How it began
The polished version would skip the weird middle. This is not the polished version.
Nick had left his corporate career and was trying every honest way he could think of to make money. He drove Uber, resold things he found, and assembled bikes, swing sets, and basketball hoops.
On a walk back from the bus stop, his neighbor Lori joked about having to pester her husband to hang the Christmas lights. That conversation turned into the sentence that started the company.
Nick made the Marketplace post. Clients hired him on day one.
Nick did not own a car. His ladder was the smallest one you could buy at Lowe’s. He borrowed his dad’s truck, borrowed a bigger ladder from his friend John, and started giving bids for work he was still learning how to do.
The first run produced roughly $2,600 in two weeks. By mid-season he had bought a ladder and a Jeep Cherokee.
In 2020, demand arrived faster than one person could handle it. Brooke became Let’s Get Lit’s first employee and learned to measure houses with Google Earth while Nick was on ladders and in trees. Collin joined the installation crew. Nick’s mom took over customer service when Brooke returned to work.
The “crazy” $8,000 season goal turned into $19,600 in revenue. The operation was still scrappy, but it was no longer a joke.
Nick wanted purple, green, and gold lighting for Mardi Gras, so he learned commercial-grade lighting. Store-bought strands were unreliable and impossible to standardize. Custom-cut commercial-grade systems fit the property, perform better, and let the crew arrive with every clip, cord, timer, and bulb needed.
That is when the slogan “We’ll hang your lights” ended. Today, Let’s Get Lit supplies and owns the entire seasonal system, then installs, services, removes, and stores it.
The short version
A casual conversation became a Facebook post and paying clients on day one.
A borrowed truck and ladder were enough to start learning, selling, and delivering.
Custom-fit materials transformed reliability, design freedom, and what the company could offer.
Residential, commercial, seasonal, and permanent lighting across South Louisiana.
Where we are now
What began with zero investment grew into a company that employed 13 people in 2025 and has completed residential and commercial projects of nearly every scale, including multiple projects in the $20,000 to $40,000 range.
The size changed. The operating idea did not: answer honestly, build the right plan for the property, and make this the easy part of the season.
Built here. Taught nationally.
Nick Glassett has trained Christmas light installers since 2022. In 2024, he founded Let’s Get Lit Supply, a professional lighting distribution company created to help installers work with better materials and build stronger systems.
That industry work does not change who this site is for. It means the standards behind your project are informed by years of teaching, sourcing, and solving real installation problems.
What the story means for you
The customer experience grew out of every mistake and scramble in those early seasons. The service is designed so your only job is choosing what you want the property to look like.
Let’s get your property lit
Send us the property and what you have in mind. We can measure most projects from satellite imagery and send a real number without an initial visit.
