Why Shop Small for Your Pest Control?
Good Question.
Pest Control is a growing industry, and Natural State is far from the only show in town. There are plenty of options to choose from, with services ranging from Mom and Pop shops to the big conglomerates. We’re biased, sure, but we think shopping small for Pest Control services is especially important. Your Pest Control is best handled by locals for a few reasons: our local expertise, our response time, our process, and the way your dollar stays right here in Northwest Arkansas.
Locals with Local Expertise
Every member of our team lives and works right here in Northwest Arkansas. When the weather shifts and there are changes to the pest issues our customers face, we’re prepared to roll with the punches. Some of our technicians have been in this industry for over ten years, treating homes in your area. With that kind of accumulated know-how and local knowledge, we’re able to quickly diagnose pest issues in our servicing area and provide more effective treatments. For example, this year we changed our usual treating months for the Yard Defense service from May-September to April-August. Why? After a relatively mild winter, we noticed an increase in calls for tick issues in March. So we leapt into action, readying our techs and restructuring our Yard Defense treatment. In addition to changing the schedule for treatment, we’re swapping the 30-day product for a 60-day product for our August service. This ensures our customers have treatment throughout the last days of summer– at a higher cost to us. It’s just one way we, as a small business, are able to adapt to the seasons in ways the big box pest control guys can’t.
Responsiveness
Many of our customers know the feeling of finding a mouse in their pantry, or a line of ants crawling along their bathroom counter– it’s usually what brings them to us in the first place! The best thing about having a small, dedicated team is our ability to get a technician out very quickly. Once we’re informed of an issue, we’re usually able to get a technician to our customer’s homes either the same day or the following day! Maybe that doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but if you’ve got an active pest issue, the sooner the better. We believe that our customers’ peace of mind is top priority because we serve you, not your number.
Our Process Works
You’ve heard the saying, “all roads lead to Rome.” It’s true in our industry, too. There are many ways to ensure your home is pest-free. There are different products, different application techniques, different ways to train technicians, you name it. We’ve been at this long enough that we’ve seen what works and what doesn’t. Our number one priority, the management of pest populations in our area, informs the way we make decisions. We practice what’s called Integrated Pest Management, which means we use a multi-pronged approach to treat our entire area. We’re always thinking about ways to minimize the ecological footprint of our treatments while keeping the population of pests in check. This is a process that involves paying attention to the seasonal changes, behavioral patterns, and reproductive rate of the pests we treat. We sweat the details of product choice, application, and effectiveness. For instance, did you know that we periodically swap the products used in our Home Defense treatment? This ensures we don’t accidentally create populations of pesticide-immune insects, an event that would have huge ecological consequences. That’s important to us because we live here, too!
Your Dollar Stays Right Here
Any way you look at it, Northwest Arkansas is on the up and up. With a population expected to exceed 1,000,000 by 2050 across Benton and Washington counties alone,. We’re happy to see the rest of the world catching on to what we’ve always known– that Northwest Arkansas is a great place to live. What we enjoy most about providing services for our community is that it enables us to give back to that community, like our annual Benn Banks Memorial Scholarship. Money spent at Natural State stays right here. We employ over 50 people who are able to provide for their families. We use local vendors whenever possible. Our dedication to this area includes the environment, our staff, and our customers.
Choices, Choices
Small businesses like ours are vital to their communities, and our communities are vital to us. If we’re great, it’s because we have great people from our community to do great work, and if we do great work, it’s in the service of the community we love. Our customers have their choice of any company, but they stay with us because their satisfaction is guaranteed, and we care for them as members of the Natural State Family. If you’ve got a pest issue, we’d love to offer you the same standard of excellent service our customers have come to expect from us. Reach out to our office at 479-777-0864 for quotes for lawn care and pest control services performed by locals, for locals.