About Marty Whitford

Let’s not travel back (or forward) in time in our minds. Let’s live every day as if we’ve traveled back (or forward) in time to that specific day to enjoy......

National Lampoon’s Animal House. Meatballs. Caddyshack. Stripes. National Lampoon’s Vacation. Ghostbusters 1 and 2. Club Paradise. Back to School. Armed and Dangerous. Groundhog Day. Multiplicity. As Good As It Gets.......

Pest Management Professional’s (PMP’s) 2014 Bed Bug Business Survey saved this author pain and heartache (especially at home). Had PMP not been busy crunching numbers from the results of this......

The customer is king (or queen). So why not ask each customer for the keys to his (or her) kingdom? Why not ask each what you can do to win......

Pro Blackberry Marty Whitford • Publisher & Editorial Director I’m a seasoned scrapper. The eighth born in an Irish Catholic clan of 10, I learned debating tactics early on. We......

Marty Whitford • Publisher/Editorial Director AOL Lives. — After we induct our Pest Management Professional (PMP) Hall of Fame Class of 2013 in October, there will be 75 PMP HOFers.......

Who doesn’t like big-ticket sales — especially opportunities largely neglected by the competition? And what if these same projects hatched multiple nest eggs? Welcome to bird management — The Big......

As bed bug management technologies, techniques and related business practices evolve, services are becoming more affordable to hard-bit consumers and companies. But while many pest management professionals (PMPs) have reduced......

Dec. 27, 1995. The day time stood still. The day our plans took a backseat. The day our hopes and dreams for our second born began to be rewritten. The......

For several years running, our media brethren have preached economic doom-and-gloom. “What goes up must come down” has been the mantra of too many for too long. It’s time to......