Selling Pest Control Door To Door

The do s and don t of door knocking for pest control sales posted on august 3 2010 by the bug doctor my first experience with selling door to door was in spokane washington and i was a window washer at the time.

Selling pest control door to door.

Top guys make over 80k. In the 1990s and early 2000s utah became the epicenter of a tidal wave of door to door pest control salesman. Its easy to sell a product that isn t crap and that doesn t have any major catch to screw people over. A huge factor is the company itself.

Sales companies capitalizing on utah s population of highly trained returned lds missionaries hired in mass and sent them across the country selling pest control door to door. Every year we see many pest control companies come out of the woodwork. We ve seen representatives in our own neighborhood knocking on doors trying to sell their product. One of the most neglected areas of marketing that i find in the pest control industry is door to door selling.

Door to door sales is just one way to sell pest control to the residential market. In this way you can also shut off all possible door to door sales scams like door to door pest control scams or home security scams outside your door. Oh sure you have a small group of d2d specialists who make a fortune selling pest control door to door. Direct mail internet marketing radio billboard tv etc.

There are a variety of other sales and marketing tools in your toolbox such as. But the average small pest control company fails to implement d2d as a part of their regular day to day activities. Saving a few bucks is not worth the gamble of going with a company fishing door to door promising things they can t and won t deliver. Some established pest control companies in the puget sound area say the door to door operators generate complaints every year and give reputable companies in the industry a black eye.

The abc s of selling are always be closing and that holds true for summer sales as well. The door to door companies can be pretty sketchy sometimes.