Here there's no market for fleas, ticks, and ants. Well, maybe a little bit of ants - but nothing to survive on.
That's why I'm looking at add on sprays. We live in an arid desert, but are a people who insist on having a wonderfully green lawn. We have incredible bug pressure here. I could sell eaves/gutter sprays for wasps to every home in town. I could sell billbug/sodwebworm treatments to at least 1/3 of the homeowners here... Box elder bugs can hide an entire house here when they come out to sun...
But my area is incredibly frugal. I won't call them poor, b/c that's a bad description. They're just honest to goodness, low budget, simple-lifestyle-living people. They'd much rather do things themselves than hire it out - even a VERY significant portion of the wealthy. It's a unique place. Rated a couple years ago as the safest place in America (and is always in the top 10 on that list). It makes it an absolutely WONDERFUL place to live, but not so hot for building a business based on luxury services.
That's why, after heavy thought (which is no small feat for me), I've come to the conclusion that I need to find a modest # of truly wealthy folks who DON'T want to do things themselves. Focus on all the ridiculously impractical landscaping that gets torn to shreds by the grass hoppers, spider mites, strawberry root weevil, etc every year. Keeping the poisonous, but prolific Hobo Spiders out of their homes. Keeping wasps from building nests on their kids playground. Injecting their constantly chlorosis laden trees with Iron b/c they got planted in a lawn that is watered and over-watered each season. Injecting their stupid quaking aspens with Merit b/c the bores absolutely decimate them when they're planted below 7000 feet-above-sea-level...
I just need to figure out how to pedal these services. I need to come up with an effective way to work these in when I'm already over worked. I need to somehow come up with the financial freedom to dump some of my existing work to provide me the time to take this on.
