"I have a vision that one day we'll be the top service company in the United States."
Vess Pearson, CEO
85% of our financial success was due to skills in "human engineering", personality, and ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead.
The Carnegie Institute of Technology carried out research that showed that
They found that only 15% was due to technical ability. In other words people skills or skills highly related to emotional intelligence were crucial skills. Nobel Prize winning Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman found that people would rather do business with a person they like and trust rather than someone they don't, even if that that person is offering a better product at a lower price.
Helping Families
Enjoy Their Homes
Our mission
Core Values
Exceed
We always go the extra mile and anticipate our customer’s needs to make every interaction extraordinary.
Commit
What we do, we do wholeheartedly by always keeping our commitments. We are passionate about excellence and precision.
Hone
We take time to better ourselves and continually look for opportunities to improve as individuals and as a company each day.
Elevate
Our actions are focused on lifting up others and ourselves, as we create a positive culture and find ways to give back.
Forbes
Killing Bugs And Making Money
Aptive Environmental, out of its Provo headquarters. This time he is going bigger, opening 29 hubs in 23 states simultaneously.
Wall Street Journal
Google-style Office Perks Go Mainstream
The offices of Alterra LLC house an NCAA regulation-size basketball court, a trugolf simulator a and a 90-inch television permanently tuned to ESPN.
Yahoo
Exterminating Dysfunction in the Pest Control Industry
Ranked as the nation’s fastest-growing pest control company. The headquarters boasts features more common to tech firms, such as foosball and ping-pong tables…
PCT
Aptive Environmental Arrives in Top 25
“We were able to retain the same executive team, the same marketing arm and sales force, and one key operator for each location,’ Royce said
Entrepreneur
4 Tips for Training Your Employees to Think Like a CEO
I decided to work alongside management and develop an intricate training program Before branching out to build alterra, the pest-control company I lead today. Now, years later, I’ve applied the lessons, which I learned in those days of flailing and failing as a salesman, to a list of rules I created.
INC 5000
No.1,022 Aptive Environmental
Provides customers with environmentally responsible pest removal options that reduce potential health risks to humans, pets, and the environment.
Fortune
Why this pest control company spends so much on Google-esque perks
Tech companies aren’t the only ones having fun in the office anymore
BYU
David Royce: Entrepreneur of the Year
David Royce has made pests less pesky by creating four of the most successful, environmentally responsible pest control companies in North America.
Worldwide Business with Kathy Ireland
See Aptive Environmental Discuss a Smarter Approach to Pest Control
Aptive Environmental featured on Worldwide Business with kathy ireland® to discuss their innovative pest solutions.
EY Entrepreneur of the Year
Ernst & Young Announces
Alterra CEO David Royce as National EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Award Winner 2015
The American Business Awards
2015 Company/ Organization Awards Categories Stevie® Award Winners
1st Place Gold Stevie Award
“Fastest Growing Service Company of the Year” for 2015.
Silver Place Award
“Company of the Year” in the “Business Services” category
Silver Place Awards
“Executive of the Year” for CEO David Royce
RevGen Partners
Sales & Marketer of the Year
Recipient: Vess Pearson
Close
5 mega-successful entrepreneurs who launched their careers in sales
In 2011, over 400,000 businesses were launched in the US. Two years later, one-third of those businesses had gone under.
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Why are we growing? What do you think?
Average Revenue Growth, 2016-2024
“There’s only one growth strategy: work hard.”
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