Pest Management Professional, September 2017
Next level maNagemeNt When Tesh launched his business he embraced that approach He offered additional services too I realized early on that there are add ons in the pest management industry he says because consumers are looking to remedy an issue and would rather use someone they trust and have a relationship with When his customers started experiencing problems with sweating crawlspaces that additional ventilation couldnt fix he took action Tesh partnered with Advanced Energy which was conducting research on closed crawlspaces Pest Management Systems was the first pest management company to tackle this issue he says despite colleagues who believed closed crawlspaces would cause houses to rot A lot of my friends said I was crazy but we had done the research and saw the results I said Well the science doesnt lie he says Sure enough within 10 years the industry was embracing closed crawlspaces Because Tesh had been buying the materials to correct crawlspace issues and no one else seemed able to find them he started selling them to others He began Crawlspace Depot not because I wanted to do it but because a lot of distributors didnt want to take it on he says ServiNg the iNduStry Tesh is no stranger to taking on responsibility He was 26 years old when he was named president of the North Carolina Pest Management Association in 1985 At the time five bills affecting the pest management industry had been introduced in the states general assembly As president his job was to defend the industry and testify in front of subcommittees at the state capitol in Raleigh We defeated every one of those bills and we havent lost a battle yet he says Weve come close but weve never lost In 2014 Tesh served as president of the National Pest Management Association NPMA and has been on the board of the NPMAs Professional Pest Management Alliance PPMA since its inception in 1997 Continued on page 52 Continued From page 48 Photo Courtesy of Billy tesh 2017 PMP HALL oF FAme tesh Pest Control was a family affair BMore with us at PestWorld 2017 Booth 1408 Baltimore Convention Center Baltimore MD October 24 27
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