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Christmas is in 8 days.  All of the “12 Days of Christmas” lists started 4 days ago.  We’ve purposely waited a few days to give you the “12 Days of Christmas You DON’T Want To See Under Your Tree”.

#12 The worst ugly Christmas sweater from eBay you can possibly imagine.

Especially if it came with a Jack Black impersonator.

#11 Gym membership from husband.

#10 Justin Bieber mechandise.

Unless your name happens to be Annie Cushing.

#9 Sex For Dummies book from wife.

New and updated 3rd Edition, because getting the first 2 wasn’t enough in previous years.

#8 Gift card to AA from Santa with a 6-pack of non-alcoholic beer.

#7 Court ordered Subpoena with 5 days to reply.

Especially if your lawyer is in the Bahamas until after New Years.

#6 Fruitcake

#5 A recluse spider in your stocking.

Very common in areas around Tulsa, OK.  Maybe coal isn’t such a bad option!

#4 Unused tickets to the Neverland Ranch.

Includes shiny right-handed glove and “live” meet and greet with its original owner.

#3 An all expense paid tour of one of BP’s oil rigs.

They’ll even let you play with the fire hose.

#2 An imitation iPad that runs Windows 7.

#1 An ant farm.

I mean, come on!  How enraged would you be if you actually got an ant farm!?  Unless your name is Thomas Ballantyne, then it might look good next to your scorpion aquarium.

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Bulwark Exterminating.  Your Loco Pest Control – Tulsa, OK.

Happy Thanksgiving wishes from your pest control guys at Bulwark Exterminating.

Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of year. It is very humbling to sit and ponder upon one’s fortune. From a guy that knows what it like to have the Helper without the Hamburger, no matter your situation there is always something to be thankful for.  Cliche, but “An attitude of gratitude will lift your altitude.”

So while I was rocking my baby girl in the wee hours of the morning, I realized despite  my body telling me that I would rather be sleeping, that this moment would create an endearing memory. Further, I am thankful for each and every smile my little on gives me. A smile, such a small act for us. But for her it takes almost all of her energy to find that muscle memory and curl those lips. Those smiles don’t last more than a brief moment. But the stamp it leaves is timeless.

And so it is that many of the mundane things of the world get overlooked. A simple smile, a kind word, a thank you. At the risk of loosing some of the macho “We toy with bugs” perception, Bulwark Exterminating would like to take the time to thank so many of our technicians for the little things they do. Things they believe go unnoticed. But these small things, we as a company hold to be monumental acts of service. Things our customers have expressed their gratitude for. We would like to echo those customers in their thanks with our Thanksgiving list.

Bulwark’s 2010 Thanksgiving List:

Thank you Shawn for taking off your shoes when you enter a customer’s home. -see jbix0

Thank you Rob Cheney for showing your last appointment that you were not exhausted after a extreme August day of heat. -see ckleslie

Thanks Henry Lawrence, for always being friendly. -see MommyYork4

Thanks Jason for being sooooo sweet. -see Yolanda

We are grateful that James takes extra time to solve stubborn pest problems. -see KookyCrazy

Thank you Ron for always ringing the door bell. -see Bonita

Thank you Maze for giving good eye contact. -see susie h.

Thank you Eric Burch for your fantastic attitude. -see maciej j.

We want to show our gratitude to James Foster and Mike Evans for taking the time to thoroughly explain the pest control service. -see Sophia Menchaca

We want to thank James Nelms for being aware of our customer’s dog. -see Cherokee Customer

Thank you Ron Posvar for explaining what problems a mouse can cause a family with children. -see Sonja Franck

Rob, kind of funny, but thanks for doing your service in a way that the homeowner doesn’t even know you were there, but the bugs do. -see frankied581

Thanks Dan for having a smile and being patient. -see speedy

Thanks Raleigh for being kind to the pets. -see Shannon

Thanks Steven for being polite. -see Morton S

Thanks Tim for being courteous. -see Gordon

Thanks Orlando for listening to the customer. -see AnneE

Scary things that your local exterminator can’t help you with…

BOOOO!!!!

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This is a trick, no treat, and there is no reward… Happy Halloween!

Friday… Last choir of the day is 7 degrees of separation. ☺☺☺☺☺

Denver’s Airport

Denver Airport

Denver’s Airport just happens to be the largest in the US. It has a lot of people running around. I am sure a lot of people are easily annoyed with such large crowds. Can you imagine the crumbs they have laying around there all day? Landfill or land-size? At 53 square miles it ranks 3rd largest in the world! Which makes me think of Boston.

Boston Massachusetts

Boston has got to be a very crowded city.  The Denver airport at 34,00 hectares is bigger than the city limits of Boston. So when I think of Denver’s airport, being larger than Boston’s city limits, traveling, being crowded, over populated… I think of cheap hotels.

Cheap Hotels

Well if you end up in Boston, the regular hotels are overpriced because of the land shortage, so you end up paying high dollar for a cheap hotel.  So now my Denver Airport trip to Boston’s overpriced cheap city hotel leaves me tired of annoying crowds and wanting a good night’s rest.

Memory foam mattress

Well wouldn’t it be nice if this cheap hotel had a memory foam mattress? At the price I am paying for this crowded cheap hotel they sure could afford one. They could also afford to fix the little bugs in the flickering neon hotel sign. Man wouldn’t it be nice to get some real service around here?

Neon Sign

No memory foam mattress, a vexing neon sign, from my over crowded flight from Denver to a cheap Boston hotel… That buzz of the neon sign is almost as bad as a  growing chirping irritation from a cockeyed cricket making me lose my sleep!

Crickets

Well when I’m out about and I hear a crackedy cricket interrupting my movie or signing through my sports game, I think to myself, “There’s no place like home!” Away from all the massive airports, crowed Boston cities, cheap hotels, hard mattresses, buzzing neon signs, and crickets. Home where I get real service from a really good pest control company.

Pest Control

… Ahhh, home sweet home. Perhaps the only other thing that could make this pest free life better would be a nice memory foam mattress.

If you like this vote it up and then we will do it again!

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

Or was it the scout motto?

DO a good turn daily.

Not quite what I am looking for…

Maybe it’s just good karma.

How do you say thanks to such a great blog post about you or your company?

A very satisfied customer Bulwark Exterminating posted this wonderful post about our Charlotte Pest Control Service. And I can’t quite recall what fortune cookie saying might best relay my gratitude, but what I do know is that a link for me is a link for you.  Its seems only fair.  Anytime someone opens up a conversation with us it’s only courteous to respond.  So thank you for your wonderful post.

One Good  deed …uh…   Link ….   Post Deserves Another.

What I can promise is that if you link to us then we will return the favor.  It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but I promise that someday I will return that favor.  We like connecting with real people.

While we are at it we like for you to meet Claudia. Check out her Decorating Blog.

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Do you believe that a pest control company could have 94% of current customers willing to recommend their pest control service to friend or family?

Do you believe that there is pest control solution for scorpion control?

Do you believe that there is a pest control solution for fire ant control?

Do you believe that there is a pest control solution for spider control?

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Take it mucho easy… Make it a great Friday!

In light of the recent FTC law that will attempt to cure the blog-o-sphere from the potential false and/or misleading reviews, one blogger makes an excellent point:

If you deliver enough value BEFORE asking for the sale, you should be able to sell plenty of stuff forever.

- Frank Kern http://masscontrolsite.com/blog/?p=59

What Frank is getting at is that if you provide a quality service or a quality product then you shouldn’t need to worry about using underhanded or sneaking marketing tactics.  Companies that build on solid foundations will be solid companies.  This applies to pest control just as much as any other industry.  Read J.D. Powers book on Satisfaction.

BUT… I do disagree with Frank a little on the customer testimonials.  I believe that customer testimonials are the blood line of successful marketing.  You do what’s best for the customer and then they talk about it.  Those are the testimonials that sell.  Our pest control marketing efforts ultimately pale in comparison to our referrals.  So again, it is…

Quality Service first – Marketing Second.

If you don’t have a quality service or product then marketing becomes a black hole, sucking your money up almost as fast as it brings it in.

But just to make sure we are compliant with the FTC here is our disclaimer… **Customer testimonials on google are reviews from the customers and happy customers is a typical result of quality service as evident in our company wide survey that reports; 94% of customers would recommend us to a friend or family member.  All other companies listed on this site have not paid us, to date, anything to be listed here.  We offer our praises of other pest control companies freely and of our own accord.  We do accept backlinks from some of these companies and would gladly accept more backlinks from more quality services.

P.S. I, Thomas (not Bulwark Exterminating) feel that this FTC law is going to be very ambiguous and unenforceable.  So those the FTC wishes to take a beating on will be subject to a whipping post that has no bounds.

Reports are flooding in right now about a pest control company in Florida that has allegedly been operating without a license.  Its rumored that the techs were not licensed and the Alabama based pest control company was not licensed.  Fine is currently set at $30,000.

I am one not to jump to conclusions.  I would be shocked if this is true, but its not unfathomable.  Many individuals in life make decisions that seem to have good short term benefits, but that will hurt them in the long run.  As Adam says, ” It will catch up to you and some day you will have to pay the Piper.”  Running a business in an industry like pest control, where a state license is required you best get licensed.  Sure you can rack up a little more money not paying for licenses, but is it really worth the risk?

As the old tale goes about a truck driver bragging that he was so good at driving his truck that he could drive with half a wheel hanging off the edge of a cliff, another driver chimed in, “I am so good at driving a truck that I stay as far from the cliff as possible.”

Do it right, all the time, every time, and you won’t have to worry about “getting caught.”  If you are doing it right then there is nothing to catch.

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Yes, there are those in the pest control industry that get a chuckle out of referring to themselves as “professional killers”.  But what if you were a regular ole’ pest control guy advertising your professional killer status which happens to get you mistakenly recruited for a  real “hit man” job?  Well that’s exactly what happens in the imaginary world of James J. Mellon as a professional bug killer gets miss-profiled by both the CIA and the Mafia.  And so the chase begins.  Ironic that a professional killer who is normally chasing smaller creatures is now being chased by the bigger mafia and even bigger CIA.  But don’t worry this musical is probably one pest problem that won’t be making it to your neighborhood anytime soon.  Visit Pest Control the Musical.

Its Friday and all of us hard working Americans deserve to start winding down and have a day or two to rest.  Or at least a day doing something other than the mundane.  As for me, I don’t think that my day tomorrow fixing up my yard and cleaning out the garage is going to be less work, just different work.  But work is good, and for the 90% of us that are still employeed we should be grateful to have work that pays. So have a fantastic weekend, even if it is just work away from work.