FieldRoutes Blog

Field service businesses that specialize in pest control and lawn care need to stay on top of technology trends in 2023. Find out what they are here.

How great is the feeling when you’re doing the important work in your business and you enter the highest state of focus and concentration? It feels like you can zoom through tasks and finish all the BIG THINGS that you enjoy most about being an entrepreneur.

While FieldRoutes is confident that we’ll be your best business partner, we also believe that your data is yours should you want to try something new.

Challenges and changes that have confronted business owners in pest control and in lawn and landscape in the last three years haven't dampened optimism as a new year approaches.

We owe a debt of gratitude to the pest control technicians who ensure the only thing crawling down our chimneys is Santa, and this time of year presents the perfect opportunity to say thanks. For the pest management service technician who handles all the creepy-crawlies so you don’t have to, consider the following holiday gift ideas.

Employees might make up any business' most significant expense, but they're also any business' most precious asset.

Local pest control companies are always competing for better positions in the online search results — and for good reason. Higher rankings typically translate into more website visitors, which of course improves your chances of gaining new customers.

Each year pest control companies eagerly await the publication of the Pest Control Technology (PCT) Top 100 list, which showcases the 100 best-performing pest management companies in the United States, ranked by reported revenue. We happily congratulate our customers who made the PCT Top 100 list this year. Companies of all sizes dream of making the list, and this year it has been announced that one-third of the businesses that made the cut were FieldRoutes and ServSuite ® by FieldRoutes customers. Overall, 33 customers achieved a spot on the list, including two FieldRoutes customers who made the list for the first time.

In the field service industry, most of the jobs are time-sensitive. As such, they require businesses to think proactively, coordinate staff, and automate as many aspects of their business as possible. Doing things manually can cause significant delays and leave room for costly errors that often lead to unsatisfied customers and jobs that are less profitable. Scaling your field service operations, on the other hand, is a practice that requires a focus on your customer satisfaction levels as one of the primary metrics related to growth in this segment.

Pest control companies continuously look for buggy and crawly things in and around people’s homes and offices. Their main job is to keep these areas pest-free using proven technology and applications. However, despite using technology to eliminate pests, most businesses miss out on potential software opportunities that can make their daily work much more efficient.

Developing a brand positioning framework is something every entrepreneur is told to do, but what is brand positioning, and what does it mean?

As an owner, manager, or marketing director of a lawn care or pest control company, you know that maintaining a competitive edge means constantly working to find and keep new customers. You need to get your name in front of the people and companies that need your services, then find a way to convert them into recurring customers.