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Mobile PMP: Mobile Marketing 101, Part II

Last issue’s Mobile PMP column examined marketing messages and privacy issues. This time, we’ll take a look at how you can...

Mobile PMP: Mobile Marketing 101, Part 1

Getting your company online and participating in social media are not the same as mobile marketing — that is, marketing...

Revisiting the Basics of Crawlspace Remediation

As homeowners react to the need to save energy, tighter construction has become the norm in nearly all new structures...

Venomous Snake Control Strategies

Snakes. Just the sight of one makes some people recoil in horror (or chase it with a shovel). Chances are...

Start-Up Diaries: Cover All Your Bases Every Day

Recently, within the span of a few days, three of my pest management brethren (in California, Wisconsin and Michigan, respectively)...

As an Industry, Let’s Thank a Vet

So many qualities of the military, especially discipline, following protocols and problem-solving, dovetail perfectly with the requirements of being a...

Conducive Conditions: The Treetop Superhighway

In North America, we usually soften the architectural lines of our homes and buildings with landscape plants and shrubs. Rarely...

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Sheperspective: Community Bed Bugs

When there’s a direct cost to tenants for bed bug control, reporting is delayed. Early detection is the key to...

Added Value: Leave the Bait Gun, Take the Cannoli

Conventional wisdom says we’re never too old to learn new tricks of the trade. Well, this past January at the...

Scherzinger Face Off: Networking vs. Production

KURT: Everyone knows the difference between the easy life of a salesperson vs. the busy life of the service/operation side...

Ride Along: ProGuard Commercial Pest Solutions

When Pest Management Professional Magazine received an invitation to the retirement party of Dr. Gerry “Doc” Wegner, BCE, technical director...

Marketing Matters: Pinterest, Social Media ROI and Referrals

Q. Other than Facebook, what other social media platforms should we consider? A. People, particularly women, tend to talk about Pinterest. It...

Then and Now: A Cockroach Cleanout

In the mid-1970s, I was performing my first cockroach cleanouts of German cockroaches with the latest technology and best equipment...

How I Got Here: Russ Ives

Russ Ives, president, Rose Pest Solutions and president-elect, National Pest Management Association, Troy, Mich. HOMETOWN Born in Detroit, still there...

Photo: Eli Sarnat, PIAkey, USDA APHIS Identification Technology Program (ITP)

Most Wanted: Big-Headed Ant

Big-headed ants (Pheidole Spp.) are multiple-queen menaces that foul food and form formicarcia (colonies), which causes structural strife for innocent inhabitants....