pest control

The quick story is I had sold for my business partner, Cameron Bodden, about in 2012.

He was just coming out of his first year Green Mango Pest, and my buddy had convinced me to leave my regular job to go sell pest control for Green Mango Pest.

And it's funny to look back at all these little things that connect the dots, but I actually only sold for Cameron for about three or four weeks and I got recruited.

I thought I got recruited, but I didn't know that he'd take anybody with a pulse.

So I went to this bigger pest control company.

I left Cameron.

And what that led to was a church member that I go to church with said, Hey, where do you go every summer? you and your family leave for a couple months, where do you go? And I said, I sell pest control.

He called me back about a week later and he said he owned XeoRes Phoenix and he wanted to start XeoRes Tucson with me.

A pest control company came to us last year after another agency redesigned their website.

It was a

beautiful site.

Same traffic, fewer calls.

The previous agency built a site that looked great, but it converted worse.

That is the most expensive website mistake in pest control, and almost nobody catches it because the site looks better than it ever did before.

Welcome to Pest Control Marketing That Actually Works, the podcast for pest control operators who want real growth, not empty promises.

I'm Adam Bennett.

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The best defender for Murray's Pest Control.

Pest problem, no problem with the team from Murray's.

I think for me,

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... exterminator and manager at Pest Control Chicago-

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... who we called to get an opinion about the Japanese prime minister and her late roach.

and anyone who knows me,

I'm not surprised by how hot pest control is.

I think outsource

all of that.

And listen, I've been in the pest industry now Four generations.

My family's been at it for a hundred years.

Me, my dad, and my grandpa are all still active in the industry and no category that is less sexy than pest control.

But it is a real problem.

All right, on the other side, Bryce Harper, uh, hit a Phillies milestone the other day.

We got a look and thank you to Evan's Pest Control for the home field advantage.

Fall and those pests are looking to find a home as the weather cools down, so make sure you're hitting up Evan's Pest Control.

Bryce Harper, uh, hit 1,000 hits as a Philly.

Uh, we have an NL wild card to look in, NL East to look in, and the Marlins fired an entire department of their franchise.

The government is splashing the cash at pests.

We look at what that will mean for pest control with Richard Dawkins, Federated Farmers Pest Control Spokesperson.

Cameron Bagri joining us, Managing Director of Bagri Economics, looking at, surprisingly, everything economic.

We have Sarah Bell joining us from the Helen Clark Foundation.

Right, on to the matter at hand.

This morning, the government announced a $9.7 million funding boost to help control wild goats and deer in some of New Zealand's most important conservation areas.

Federated Farmers Pest Control spokesperson Richard Dawkins joins us now.

Good afternoon.

All right, that's gonna do it for this episode of the podcast, Outer Banks This Week.

Uh, what is it? Episode 2631, again, all brought to you by Kelly's Automotive in Manteo and online at kellysobxauto.com, and it's all powered by Outer Banks Pest Control and online at outerbanks-pestcontrol.com.

All right, I'm out of here.

I'll be back next week.

The, by Sandidge et al.

from twen- 2005, Brown Recluse Spiders: A Review of Biology, Life History, and Pest Management was, um, an interesting one, just an overview of them.

By Lytica from 2022, The Biology and Evolution of Spider Venoms, if you wanna know more about venoms broadly.

Mm-hmm.