Tonight, mosquito expert Dr. Stan Cope will be hosting a Twitter chat (#MosquitoWeekChat) via @Terminix to answer consumer questions about mosquitoes and Zika this summer. Stan is the president of the American Mosquito Control Association and the director of entomology and regulatory services at Terminix. Here are the details: What? Twitter chat, with chances to win […]
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The Quigley Creed: The ABC’s of Running a Great Business
Today’s guest blogger is Patrick Quigley, president of Sales Training by Design, with some A to Z tips for running...
Happy National Pollinator Week
Nine years ago the U.S. Senate unanimously approved and designated a week in June as “National Pollinator Week” to help...
Flag Day is every day for Capital City Exterminating company
Happy Flag Day, America! Here’s a holiday-relevant story to make you smile. The Belknap family, whose company, Capital City Exterminating...
Pest Entry Management’s BATMAN kills bugs with bats
Forget Ben Affleck or Christian Bale — the newest Batman around is Jay Lee with Pest Entry Management in Nashville....
Tempering the risk of mosquito-borne illness
With Aedes aegypti in the news at nearly every turn, it’s important for pest management professionals (PMPs) to take the...
I.D. this blogger’s 8-legged invader …
Perhaps one of our readers can confirm something for me. Though I write for pest professionals, I am not one....
THE GIANT MUTANT NINJA COCKROACHES ARE (probably not) COMING!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=topVkP8WBb4 Horror movies are this blogger’s great love, with special affection reserved for sci-fi monster movies of the 1950’s “atomic...
Study examines mosquito mentions on Twitter by city
A new study released by Terminix shows that New Yorkers are leading the nation’s Twitter campaign against mosquitoes. The study,...
23 call-to-action tips for pest management marketing
[Blogged with permission from guest blogger, June Van Klaveren of Compelling Communications Inc.] Marketing gurus say that people don’t respond when...
UPFDA spring meeting: Let the good times roll
Industry producers and suppliers at UPFDA’s spring meeting forecast continued growth for the professional pest management market. It’s time to...
More on mascots
Did you “Witness these characters” on the back page of Pest Management Professional’s April issue? If you couldn’t get enough...
Pitfalls (and pit bulls) of ‘latchkey accounts’
Do you have any “latchkey” accounts? That is, accounts that you service when the client is not home? I’d imagine...
Looky! A wookie!
Had enough ‘Star Wars’ yet? (Ain’t no such thing, if you ask this nerd. By the way, did you catch...
TSI appeals to consumers for mosquito prevention
To mark both National Pest Management Month and the start of mosquito season, Terminix Service Inc. (TSI) has released a press...
Moths & Misplaced Affection
A new method to curb moth populations involves some pheromone-based bait-and-switch trickery that confuses the male moth’s primal urge —...