I was at one of our chemical distributors one day and one of the reps told me about
another pest control company who was selling products online.
And I didn't even know that you could do that.
You know?
And so I immediately called Philip and he said "Hey I could make a website that blow
these guys away."
And I said "Awesome let's just try it we got nothing to lose!"
Took us all day to do five or ten orders, we started out in our parents basement and
you know, now here we are today.
We're approaching 50 or more employees this year.
Our culture here at Do My Own Pest Control is definitely part of our success.
I mean we love it.
We have fun.
We work super hard for our customers and at the same time we have tons of fun around here.
Philip would take all of his Halloween candy and he would hide it in little places and
save it.
And like three months after Halloween he would still have candy to eat.
And I ate all of mine in two nights.
And it drove me up the wall.
I think I gave him a black eye once.
And then ran because he's the bigger one.
Of course I would have to, I would sneak into his room and try to find all the little hiding
places where he hide his candy.
You know, we...we beat on each other.
My room was always really clean and his room was always really messy.
And so, I didn't like going in his room because it drove me nuts.
From the time we were kids we had multiple businesses.
We would go with our mom to buy candy at Sam's Club and then re-sell it to the kids.
And then we did a lawn mowing business.
It was kind of funny.
We always had something going on.
Michael is definitely the type A of the team.
He's very reserved, very conservative.
He does a lot of the administrative work and it's stuff that I don't like to do.
So I'm happy with that.
And I'm more the IT and the technical side and so in an internet company it works great.
That's what makes us such a good team is that we are so different, so we combine those attributes
together.
In college I always wanted to do graphic design thing and as time went on, I decided, nah
I want to work for myself.
Started working with a pest control company out of college, instead of kind of pursuing
the business avenue a lot of people including my in laws thought, "What are you doing with
that?"
Any of the technology side of the company and building the website, keeping it going,
that's what I do.
We're constantly trying to add new things to make it somewhere, where you want to come
to work everyday and that you're proud to say your an employee of Do My Own Pest Control.
For those looking for a job, we offer health insurance, we have 401K, we have tons of benefits
for our employees.
Pool table, a fun room/game room, work out room, showers.
There's a soft serve ice cream machine, we cater lunches through out the summer.
We have a good time, we enjoy it, it makes it worth coming in everyday.
I love it!
All those kind of little things that add up to just a really cool place to work.
We want the employee's families to feel like they're part of the company also.
We'll rent out a local place that has go carts, gold and arcade and we'll have all the employee's
bring their families.
And you know we just have a night where they can get whatever they want to eat, to drink,
and pay for it all, and just have a really good night where we can just all you know
bond together.
We do a big fall festival every year, out on my property.
We get a catered Bar-B-Que and everyone can come out and fish.
It's what me and Philip wanted to, the type of atmosphere that we wanted to create and
I feel like we've done a pretty good job of doing that.
We both feel really blessed to have gotten to where we are and feel blessed by the employees
we have that have been incredible.
You know, we've been so blessed there with the people you have come on board to help
this thing grow.
We like to fish and shoot guns and skeet shoot.
Yeah, you don't get a lot of free time we you own your own business.
I mean, I love snow boarding, when I get the chance, not very often.
I love to go see concerts.
I don't care what kind of music it is.
If you see it in a suite it's fun.
SO, food and a good view, so we like to do a lot of that, and of course we have that
for the employees to partake in as well!
I love doing stuff outdoors.
i love back packing, love anything outside.
I have a property with four wheelers and guns and so me and my family are a very out doorsy.
I'm in the office too much.
So, and if I can get out I'm happy!
I love being outside.
And especially me and Philip both have small kids so we like to spend a lot of time with
them on the weekends.
Whenever the customers send in an email, "Okay I talked to so and so on the phone, it was
so great, I loved it, or I got this package in this amount of time," we'll send those
emails all around the office, everyone gives each other virtual high fives, through the
email.
We wouldn't be here without our employees.
I mean that's probably a huge thing I am grateful for.
Is we've been blessed to hire really good people.
That makes a difference.
We started out of our parents basement, I mean we had no idea in a million years that
we would have a company like this some day.
I'm just grateful for everything that's happened and the timing.
There's just no other real explanation other than divine intervention and guidance.
And the fact that me and Philip really are a good team.
It's cool to see their families grow and the company and our family grow and our customers,
you know who continually come back over the years, from way back.
It's cool to feel like your making
a difference.