The Local Guys - Pest Control : From Car Yards to Pest Control, Corey on The Local Guys Podcast
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The Local Guys - Pest Control : From Car Yards to Pest Control, Corey on The Local Guys Podcast
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| The Local Guys Pest Control | Podcast Episode 7: Corey A. The Local Guys Podcast Episode 7 is a long-form interview with Local Guys Pest Control franchisee Corey A. (Artz), a Gold Coast pest control technician who came to the brand after a 25-year career in car sales. Corey opens with his backstory - he was a car salesman from his early twenties, raised three sons (now 26, 25 and 21, all working in the car industry themselves) and turned 50 last year. The interview is candid about why he left the category: the work was relentlessly long-hours, every-Saturday work, after-hours phone calls, the income was good but the lifestyle eventually became unsustainable for him. He talks through the slow decision to step out of car sales and into a service-based small business - including a two-year stint as a Business Development Manager at a car groomers business - before he found Local Guys Pest Control through a chemical-supply contractor in Adelaide who happened to supply a competing pest control franchise. Corey describes how he priced the chemicals against the price of pest control treatments and immediately saw the economics, which is what triggered his deeper investigation of the category. Across the rest of the interview Corey covers the move from employee to franchise partner, the practical first weeks of running the Gold Coast territory, customer-service skills he carried over from car sales, and how the work compares to the high-pressure rhythm he left behind. For prospective Local Guys Pest Control franchisees considering a mid-career change into the business, this is the closest thing on the brand's library to a real conversation with a peer who has already made that exact move. |
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