399: How To Scale a Million-Dollar Pest Control Business w/ Robiar Smith
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
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🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week in the guest chair we have Robiar Smith, CEO of R.B. Pest Solutions. In a male-dominated field, she is trailblazing her way to the top and building a legacy business for her family and community. Juggling two rapidly growing companies in an unexpected industry, she's redefining success and breaking barriers.
In this episode she shares:
- How she developed an exclusive retail deal with Home Depot
- What skills from her background in corporate America and MBA program she applied to being an entrepreneur
- Her transition into scaling a product-based business into a multi-million dollar company
Highlights include:
00:00 Intro
2:30 Following the pest control legacy
6:34 How an MBA helped launch the business
12:57 Acquiring customers and making them long time clients
21:34 Phases of scaling a business
25:41 Developing and testing retail products
29:37 Difference in service-based and product-based business
32:44 Maintaining profitability
35:48 Tips for entrepreneurs
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Links mentioned in this episode
- Robiar’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/r.b.pestsolutions/
- Robiar’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rbpestsolution
- Robiar’s Website: https://therbpremiumproducts.com/
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Robiar’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/r.b.pestsolutions/
Robiar’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rbpestsolution
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| 0:48.0 | Hey, hey friends, welcome, welcome back to the show. It's the Kayla here back with another |
| 0:57.2 | interview episode. Today in the guest chair I am chatting with Robbie R. Smith, the CEO of RBPest Solutions. In a male-dominated field, she is |
| 1:06.4 | trailblazing her way to the top, creating a legacy business, and assisting with |
| 1:11.1 | economic growth in her community. |
| 1:13.0 | She'll always tell you she didn't choose pest control, pest control chose her. |
| 1:17.0 | She's giving the pest management industry a facelift |
| 1:21.0 | by managing a successful pest control-based service as well as opening a pest |
| 1:25.9 | retail store in the community and now launching her own pest product line RB premium products. |
| 1:31.9 | The first product she's introduced to the world is |
| 1:34.0 | Bug Strike, which is an all-natural insecticide for insects. As a result, major |
| 1:39.5 | retailers, aka one of them being Home Depot, are trying to get their hands on this |
| 1:45.0 | product so you're hearing it here first bug strike has found his first home |
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