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EASY JOB, Exterminating In America’s Most Dangerous City – by Kurt Beers

  I remember pulling up next to a Terminix truck at a red light one morning and thinking to myself that the man behind the wheel must not be the sharpest tool in the shed. I mean, who would want to kill bugs for a living? I figured he must not make much money to do an [...]

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The Dusting Cap Dilemma In Pest Control

I love it when I see pest techs dusting for pest control. I love it even more when I see a professional tech who’s doing the dusting. Dusting has so many positive aspects; Long term residuals, huge voids can be covered with a light puff, homeowners and non target beings are in no danger of [...]

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The Show Must Go On

For some reason early on in my career I was tagged as the guy new technicians rode with for training. For better or for worse I’ve had a hand in seeing 100’s of techs through their first few hours, days or weeks of hands on service. (it always depended on the companies I worked for [...]

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5 Universal Truths About Your Pest Control Route

Do you use less equipment now then you did when you started? After all a dead bug is still a dead bug regardless if you killed it with a $1000 dollar actisol machine or with a 40 cent shot of HPX. Although your equipment is important, a successful route is built on more than just [...]

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Pest Control Not Found In Any Manual

To get a professional pest control applicators license you’ve got to go through quite a bit of training. Books books and more books, on the job training, ride alongs, training classes, videos, in house testing and more. All of this and all it gets you is the chance to take a whopper of a test, [...]

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Translating Pest Control Instructions; Please Help

I rarely ask for anyones help when it comes to pest control service. It’s not that I have all the answers or am so smart. (just this week I had a customer call me anything but No, I just enjoy the thrill of figuring out mysteries and putting the pieces together to solve what seemed [...]

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If A Single Pest Control Operator Falls in The Woods…

In the pest control world there are three things near and dear to my heart. # 1. A tech who takes pride in his/her work and just exudes professionalism – #2. A clean and organized truck (kind of a rarity . #3. And most of all, the single operator, an owner who beyond all hope [...]

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Do You Haggle, Barter Or Trade Your Pest Control Service?

Is it just me or are there others out there who hate to negotiate for goods or services? Maybe I’m the extreme because I don’t even like using coupons or gift certificates. To be honest I guess I feel like they somehow aren’t real money when I’m using them and if I’m buying them, I [...]

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If You Had A Pest Control Genie What Would You Wish For

We’ve all watched the scene play out, a ship wrecked man in tattered clothes who comes upon a bottle in the sand. Thinking it’s water perhaps or something else, he picks it up, uncorks it and SHAZAAM! Out pops a genie who is so happy to be released that he or she grants the guy [...]

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The Deadly Speed Of A Key Account

Pest control technicians must be a trusting lot. I can’t think of any other occupation where a homeowner let’s a service person in their home while they’re not present. Not only do they ‘let’ them in, they actually give them a key! I wouldn’t say this is very common with a plumber, appliance repairman or [...]

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Hey Bug Man! My Eyes Are Up Here

Where else but here in pestcemetery.com would you find the hard hitting, unbiased articles that tackle the truly important issues of the pest control industry? Does megatronpest.net give you this? How about the national magazines? No, there are just certain subjects that are to controversial, NOT politically correct enough and definitely way to sensitive for [...]

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Ironies & Oddities And The Veterans Of Pest Control

Do any job long enough and you’re bound to see some really off the wall things somewhere down the line. I’ve been doing pest control for 27 years and hardly a day goes by where I don’t do a double take at something that gets me scratching my head or just drops my jaw and [...]

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My Failures At Pest Proofing-Two Lessons In What Not To Do

An important part of any pest control program is simply to keep the bugs or vermin from getting inside in the first place. Exterior chemical barriers are wonderful but just what do you spray over a torn screen or how thick would your granules have to be to block insects from using a worn thresh [...]

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For The Place Whereon Thou Standest Is Holy Ground

Let me ask you a serious question- Do you respect your customers home? I mean if you broke something would you insist on paying for it-would you even speak up? Do you burn through the place with little or no regard as to how, where or why you are treating? Does this clients home mean [...]

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A Proven Strategy In Pest Control

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. Sun Tzu There seems to be a grave misconception of pest control which leads to disappointments, under valuing, disinterest and impatience. The fallacy comes from the illusion that a technician simply walks [...]

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