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Hall of Fame

Titans of Industry: How 20 Classes of PMP Hall of Famers helped shape and grow professional pest management

By The staff of Pest Management Professional magazine
Price: $24.99

Titans of Industry: How 20 classes of PMP Hall of Famers helped shape and grow professional pest management features profiles of 87 pest management industry leaders and legends. The editors of Pest Management Professional (PMP) magazine, the industry’s leading technical journal since 1933, examine the remarkable achievements of the highly respected PMP Hall of Fame inductees honored at our invitation-only annual receptions over the past 20 years. PMP has never forgotten its roots — and those of the professional pest management industry. Titans of Industry celebrates the leaders and legends who have upheld professional standards, educated their peers and developed innovative products and services. Features photos of each inductee, lengthy descriptions, and biographical details.

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Entomology

 

Bugs Be Gone: Pest control in homes and other buildings

By Dr. Gary W. Bennett
Price: $29.99

Many insects, and some of their close relatives, commonly invade homes and other buildings, annoying the human occupants, damaging the structures, eating or contaminating the food, inflicting painful bites and stings, and transmitting debilitating and deadly diseases to the people and their pets. This practical illustrated guide is broken down by pest types (cockroaches) or by where they may be found (food pests) or by the harm they cause (stinging pests). Each chapter begins with a summary of the pests in that chapter, along with how-to-do-it information on how to get rid of pests in an environmentally friendly manner. Quite often this means calling a professional pest management company to eliminate the problem and to assist you in preventing the pest problem from occurring again. More details are presented in the chapter texts that follow the chapter summary. These details are provided for consumers and professional pest managers who want to research each pest and its control in greater depth. Bottom line – Bugs Be Gone is designed to help consumers eliminate pests in homes and other buildings and prevent their return.

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Truman’s Scientific Guide to Pest Management Operations, 7th Edition

By Dr. Gary W. Bennett
Price: $140.00

The “bible of the industry” this is the long-awaited current updated version now available. The 7th edition of the Truman’s Scientific Guide to Pest Management Operations is filled with hundreds of pages of detailed analysis of pests, methods of treatment, habits, habitats, characteristics and two new chapters including Bed Bugs/Other Blood-feeding Bugs and Principles of Pest Management/Green Pest Management. Now with more than 80 new photos, drawings and tables to enhance reader understanding of the subject matter. Issued in hardcover only, with no dust jacket, 2010 edition.

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Spanish Version, Truman’s Scientific Guide to Pest Management Operations, 7th Edition

By Dr. Gary W. Bennett
Price: $119.00

The “bible of the industry” this is the long-awaited current updated version now available. The 7th edition of the Truman’s Scientific Guide to Pest Management Operations is filled with hundreds of pages of detailed analysis of pests, methods of treatment, habits, habitats, characteristics and two new chapters including Bed Bugs/Other Blood-feeding Bugs and Principles of Pest Management/Green Pest Management. Now with more than 80 new photos, drawings and tables to enhance reader understanding of the subject matter. Issued in hardcover only, with no dust jacket, 2010 edition.

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Business

Bug People to Business People

By Lloyd Merritt Smigel
Price: $9.95

30-year industry veteran, Lloyd Smigel, called on his vast industry experience to write Bug People to Business People with the mom-and-pop pest management professional (PMP) in mind. Inside this information-packed book, Smigel gives PMPs practical advice on creating job descriptions, hiring the right people, and retaining those same people so they can help your business grow – and profit. Insightful, witty, and irreverent as always, Smigel offers PMPs a roadmap for turning their mom-and-pop operation into a full-fledged corporation.

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From Technician to CEO: The Evolution of a High-Growth Pest Control and Lawn Care Company

By Daniel S. Gordon, CPA
Price: $19.99

This book is about the journey of Peter Hall, a second-generation pest control operator (PCO) and lawn care professional (LCP) who grew up amid his family business, went off to college to earn a business degree and returned home to work in, and eventually take over, the family business. While growing up, he watched his father work diligently to make a modest living for his family. While attending business school, Peter studied several facets of business, including management, accounting, finance, marketing and operations. His professors used the case method to teach, using successful high-growth, highly profitable companies as subjects. After learning about the strategies employed to expand these model companies, Peter believed he was in a position to move his family’s pest and lawn business on a high-growth trajectory. But what tools would he need to make this happen? Do the lessons he learned in the classroom translate to a realistic strategy that can be used to grow a company that will dominate the market, creating above-average income and providing long-term wealth for his family?

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Marketing Matters

By Harvey F. Goldglantz
Price: $25.00

Marketing Matters isn’t just good – it’s phenomenal. It’s going to revolutionize the way you think about marketing, and will help you realize you can create a great marketing plan and not break the bank doing it. Harvey Goldglantz walks you through the marketing process step by step – from creating a marketing budget to crafting an effective message to deciding where to place your advertising to maximizing your success from your marketing investment. This easy-to-understand, useful reference book should be on every service industry professional’s desk.

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Stop Spraying Money Down the Drain

By Andrew Greess
Price: $24.99

“STOP Spraying Money Down the Drain” is a must-read reference guide for pest management and lawn care professionals. Chock full of photographs and diagrams, the 150-page book is the blueprint to increasing productivity and profitability by deploying simple strategies for purchasing, using and maintaining spray equipment.

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