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Sigma Pest Control- What Risks Do Bats Pose to Virginia Homeowners?
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- Rodent Control in Stafford, Virginia
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- Why You Should Have Quarterly Pest Control Services
- The Benefits of Hiring a Local Pest Control Company
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Author Archives: The Bug Doctor
Why The Best Pest Technicians Are Thigmotropic
I’m not sure I’d be a good service manager just running behind pest control technicians and grading their work. Big companies like numbers so they may not like my approach. I wouldn’t be an unfair evaluator mind you. I realize … Continue reading
Handling A HUGE Yellow Jacket Nest
Not to brag or anything but in almost 27 years of pest control I’ve only been stung by ‘stinging pests’ 6 or 7 times. Of those times 2 were by bees, one by a bald faced hornet (MAN DID THAT … Continue reading
A Commercial Sales Strategy You Can’t Live With Or Without
It was the beginning of a new new month in the dead of winter and my first day as a commercial representative. I sat in my same desk as I always had but today I wore an suit tie. The … Continue reading
The Oz Effect In Pest control
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. Laurence J. Peter I think sometimes we put to much stock into really smart people. We think just because ‘they’ said it, … Continue reading
The Common House Spider
Common house spiders (Parasteatoda tepidariorum) are also known as American house spider or more commonly as just a ‘house’ spider. While there are many spiders you can find inside a home, many of those may or may not always want … Continue reading
IPM Aka
In the early days of what we might call “modern pest control”, thoroughness of coverage was the key. The average flea job took an entire gallon of mix (usually Ficam W). Any less and the boss would frown at your … Continue reading
Scorpion Killer
When you think of scorpion facts I believe most people think there are just one, maybe two kinds of scorpions in the world, always located in a desert and that the scorpions sting is absolutely deadly bar none. Actually there … Continue reading
Sand Bags, Shell Games And Successful Pest Control Sales
Pest control sales can be a pretty sweet gig when things are rolling. Nobody questions you about your daily activity, the boss is fairly happy to see you and as long as numbers are adding up in the positive realm … Continue reading
The Many Aspects Of The Termite Booster Shot
Booster- a happy sounding word that was no doubt coined to inspire confidence or give a ray of hope when customers were looking for success in the face of failure. As long as there’s been termite work there has always … Continue reading
Paper Or Plastic – German Roaches & The Brown Bag Effect
Those of us who’ve been around for awhile can tell you that the phrase “paper or plastic” was one of the most welcome sayings in pest controls history. At least when it comes to german roaches that is. ‘Recyclable’ brown … Continue reading
The Saddest Termite Job I Ever Sold & The Smile Of A Mad Man
It’s amazing how I could go from a top salesman one month and find myself scraping bottom over the next 30 day stretch. My downward spiral in sales would be unacceptable anywhere else but might have been understandable in this … Continue reading
