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Michael Stewart
Welcome, everybody. It’s Mike Stewart with the volunteer repairs podcast, with pest expert, Eric Gardner here in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Cleveland, Tennessee and the chat into the surrounding area. He is the man when it comes to doing business of taking care of your pest problems. Now, Eric, there are all kinds of businesses out there that do pest control in every city. And there’s big companies, there’s small companies, there’s good companies, there’s bad companies. But you know, for me, as a business owner, and as a consumer, I like talking to somebody that that’s where the buck stops. As for me, I like doing business with local business owners. I don’t want to be a number. I don’t want to be just an invoice. I you know, I don’t want to name names. But you know, I as much as I love Google, I can’t talk to Mr. Google. He’s just too big and hasn’t got time for me but I do like talking to Eric Garner, because Eric Garner knows the solutions to my problems. I can talk to him on the phone. And I tell you what, when it comes to volunteer rinderpest, that’s where the buck stops, it stops with Eric. And he’s going to go the extra mile to make it right. So you tell me from your perspective, I know from my perspective, doing business locally, supports the entrepreneurial world of America. I mean, over 50% of the businesses in America are locally owned small businesses. They’re not big corporations are not big change, not franchises. They are entrepreneurs like yourself. So tell me what sets you guys apart and why you like being a local, grown business. That’s been a business for over 50 years. I know your dad started it. Tell us all about why we want to do business with the local guys at volunteer rapist.
Erik Gardner
Oh, you know, you’re absolutely right, Mike. The majority of Americans are employed by companies with fewer than 50 employees, and that’s that’s the backbone of our 
capitalistic system is small businesses serving their local communities and who better to serve your community and somebody leaves right here. You know, why would you want to do business with a company from Arizona or a company from another state? When you got people right here, you know, in with our company, we’ve had offices in Chattanooga and Cleveland since 1970. You know, we know the area, we know most of the people in the area, we know the bugs in the area, you know, who better to control your problem and somebody who, that’s what we do. We don’t have to learn the bugs because we’re actually from another region. We know, each each month we know what’s going to ring our phone because it’s been doing it for 50 years, we know. So we’re going to get out fast where you know, we don’t have to wait till we’re in the area. We’re always in the area. We’re local, you know, so if you call we got somebody right up the street. We can get him out there and take care of your problem. We’ve been doing this for 50 years, I think we have to be doing something right to survive that long and be doing business right here. So another thing to keep in mind is when you spend $1 in the local economy, and you know you spend it with somebody who’s going to continue to do that, which I do, I always look you know, we shop at the local grocery stores, we try to do business any time we can with other locally owned companies, for that reason, because if you if your dollars continue to circulate within your own community, it builds wealth over time because those new dollars come in but a few dollars, leave more dollars stay in the community. When you spend your dollars with out of town companies. The money goes out of town and it doesn’t come back most of the time. And you know, the taxes that that company pays in Arizona or I just use it as an example Arizona, Alabama, wherever you’re supporting their schools, you’re rebuilding their roads and bridges, but when you spend money With a local company, our tax dollars support our schools and our roads and our bridges. And I think it’s very important. People just don’t seem to understand that. But you know, when you live in a community, it’s better to spend your money with local people, because the money stays in the community. It’ll circulate back around land in your pocket, and once again,
Michael Stewart
well, to have to have an economy that stays local is the power of doing business locally. I know a lot of the Chamber of Commerce’s I know, a lot of the business networking groups, you know, are big proponents, you know, you don’t use local service businesses use local retailers use a local professional services. You know, at the end of the day, it’s when you do business locally, you grow the local economy, and when the local economy’s doing well, everybody’s doing well. So you know, and quite honestly, if I’ve got a problem, I want to know that somebody that knows my name is going to take Care me, not somebody that I have to, you know, be put on hold and and, and dial nine to wait for another automated attendant to tell me that the operators are busy, I’ll have to hold for a minute. Now I like the fa
ct that there is some good old human interaction and I know that’s what you do at volunteer repast. And you know, one of the things that I was told years ago, Eric, is that for a business to succeed, it has to be in business for at least three years, while you’re 47 years to the good on that. So there’s there’s no reason to believe that they’re not doing something right. They are doing plenty right, volunteer repast. So be sure to you know, call them today you have a problem. They’re going to take care of it for you locally, whether it’s Chattanooga, whether it’s Cleveland soddy Daisy, you know all of the areas around Chattanooga, they service that and they make sure you’ll stay pest free. Subscribe to our podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify and Stitcher. And then what you want to do is share this podcast Cast with other people. We repurpose the podcast and have it play on Facebook and in YouTube. There’s many ways to get to know like and trust Eric Gardner to your local pest expert and volunteer better best. Until next time. This is Mike Stewart for volunteer therapist in Chattanooga.
