A new study released by Terminix shows that New Yorkers are leading the nation’s Twitter campaign against mosquitoes. The study, which analyzed more than 500,000 tweets mentioning the word “mosquito” was meant to determine where most of the mosquito-centric Tweets are coming from. The cities, in order of most to least tweets, are: New York, […]
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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 —...
Calling All Fantastic Fleets!
An upcoming issue of PMP will feature a piece on fleet management for industry vehicles. We’re turning to you to...
AMCA group gives the next generation a guiding hand
In the April issue of PMP magazine, we feature a question-and-answer session with Dr. Stanton Cope. The retired Navy captain...
‘Bob’s Burgers’ pest-company name generator
If you watch ‘Bob’s Burgers‘, the animated Fox-network sitcom (currently cleared for a 7th and 8th season!) about a family-owned...
Dempsey Sapp Sr. — a legend lost
The staff of PMP was saddened to receive news that the industry lost a legend last week. Dempsey Sapp Sr.,...
Ohio pest professionals … REPRESENT!
I was lucky enough to piggyback off a photo op, organized by another attendee at this week’s NPMA Legislative Day,...
SC Johnson Lends a Hand to Help Fight Zika
It did our collective heart good to read earlier this week that SC Johnson, manufacturer of a mosquito repellant we...
Militant Bug Behavior
From our Lighter Side, department: Back in the day, Cracked magazine was a rival/rip-off of Mad magazine — two publications...
Puerto Rico’s crippled health system could complicate the battle against Zika for everyone
I fear my last blog post regarding Zika downplayed the urgency of the virus. As new news continued to...