Monday, January 30, 2012

Pest Control in the Cloud!

There are many pest control software programs available today. One problem arising however, is that most they are downloadable software packages, meaning you need to download and install the program onto your computer. That is not such a big deal, but if you want your employees to also use the program you need to install the program onto their computers as well. This process is expensive and can lead to a lot of frustration. For example; at a pest control firm I previously worked for we had a software program installed on all of the office computers at several different locations. All of these computers were linked together on a local server. The local server would decide to crash at opportune times, sometimes several times a month. We would then have to call the computer guy with all the fancy tools to drive out to our office where the server was, find the problem, and then fix the problem (hopefully that day)! Needless to say it lead to frustration and ended up costing the company a ton of money. When the system would crash, (which was often), the office people would not be able to do any work ALL DAY, the salespeople were frustrated, the technicians were frustrated, and the owner (forgot about him...) still had to pay for all of these employees hours, the computer repair guys bill, and equipment to fix the problem. Hmmm... 2 office employees per location, 5 locations, computer repair guy... = $$$$$$.

Don't let this be your business model! Come take the cloud based pest control software for a test drive today!!!

Have a great day!

Ben

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