The owner of a Glen Allen pest control company has caught the franchise bug.
Eric Miller started Adios Mosquitoes and is looking to at some point take his startup on the road.
Adios launched a year ago in Richmond and faces stiff competition from a handful of other mosquito spraying franchises.
“Charlottesville is a natural next step for us,” he said. “We’re also looking at North Carolina. My partners and I know a lot of folks who live there and are from there.”
With a four-person staff, Miller trucks to local homes and a few businesses every 21 days to stamp out mosquitoes with a barrier spray. The company also offer an automatic misting system.
Miller said that Adios has more than doubled its revenue since May.
The company’s client base varies by the month, but Miller said Adios ended the season with a couple hundred clients, most of which are residential.
Having a yard sprayed runs about $70 for a half-acre or $60 if the customer signs up for the season, which runs from April to October.
Miller said 70 percent to 80 percent of the clients sign up for the whole season.
He wouldn’t disclose how much he invested but noted that he has two other partners backing the business and that it has become profitable.
Franchising the business was Miller’s plan from the beginning.
“We started looking into franchises with another competitor, MosquitoSquad, but we didn’t feel like we were getting the value for what we were paying for,” he said.
“We decided to it was best to do it by ourselves.”
Miller only works as a bug-killer part time. He’s been with a local financial service firm for the past six years.
Before getting into that, Miller had a hand in a few other startups.
Until about 2004, he ran a legal copying business in Richmond.
He sold his share in that business after about five years and moved on to selling products on eBay.
“I was always looking for the right business model to do on the side,” he said.
Miller said that after researching pest-control business, he knew it would be a good long-term fit.
“It was a fairly manageable business model,” he said. “I felt I could take it and grow with the right partners to be successful.”
The owner of a Glen Allen pest control company has caught the franchise bug.
Eric Miller started Adios Mosquitoes and is looking to at some point take his startup on the road.
Adios launched a year ago in Richmond and faces stiff competition from a handful of other mosquito spraying franchises.
“Charlottesville is a natural next step for us,” he said. “We’re also looking at North Carolina. My partners and I know a lot of folks who live there and are from there.”
With a four-person staff, Miller trucks to local homes and a few businesses every 21 days to stamp out mosquitoes with a barrier spray. The company also offer an automatic misting system.
Miller said that Adios has more than doubled its revenue since May.
The company’s client base varies by the month, but Miller said Adios ended the season with a couple hundred clients, most of which are residential.
Having a yard sprayed runs about $70 for a half-acre or $60 if the customer signs up for the season, which runs from April to October.
Miller said 70 percent to 80 percent of the clients sign up for the whole season.
He wouldn’t disclose how much he invested but noted that he has two other partners backing the business and that it has become profitable.
Franchising the business was Miller’s plan from the beginning.
“We started looking into franchises with another competitor, MosquitoSquad, but we didn’t feel like we were getting the value for what we were paying for,” he said.
“We decided to it was best to do it by ourselves.”
Miller only works as a bug-killer part time. He’s been with a local financial service firm for the past six years.
Before getting into that, Miller had a hand in a few other startups.
Until about 2004, he ran a legal copying business in Richmond.
He sold his share in that business after about five years and moved on to selling products on eBay.
“I was always looking for the right business model to do on the side,” he said.
Miller said that after researching pest-control business, he knew it would be a good long-term fit.
“It was a fairly manageable business model,” he said. “I felt I could take it and grow with the right partners to be successful.”
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