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Pest Control marketing

Sell the Plan, Not Just the One-Time Treatment

Capture the infestation, then convert it into a recurring plan.

No obligation, and no contract required to get it.

How your trade actually runs

The plan is the business, not the treatment

One-off treatments pay once and cost a full drive. Recurring plans are what make a route profitable, and they are almost never what the marketing actually sells.

Route density is the margin
Profit is a function of stops per mile. Advertising across a whole metro buys work you lose money servicing.
Pests are searched for by name
Nobody searches for pest control when they have wasps. Demand arrives named, seasonal, and specific.
The calendar is predictable
Swarms, rodents and seasonal pressure arrive on roughly the same schedule every year, which means spend can lead demand instead of chasing it.

Where we start

The three channels that move pest control first

We do not sell all eight services to everybody. These are the ones that pay first in this trade, the rest come later, if they earn a place.

  • Valley Plumbing
  • Ernie's Plumbing
  • Mark Johnson Plumbing
  • Heidler, Inc.
  • Red Rock Plumbing
  • Home Heroes
  • Mallick Plumbing
  • Perry Heating & Air
  • JAG Exteriors
  • Towers Plumbing
  • Isley Plumbing
  • Marlin Plumbing
  • Hafke Plumbing
  • Meyer's Heating & Cooling
  • Home Performance Pros
  • Water Heaters Any Time
  • Bullwinkle's
  • West Desert Plumbing
  • Summit Coatings

Still got questions?

What working with CMS actually sounds like

Home service owners talking about what changed after the marketing started answering for itself. No script, no actors, the people who hired us.

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What you get

What we build for pest control

A single treatment is a transaction. A recurring plan is a business. We build the visibility that captures urgent infestations and the follow-up that converts them into quarterly contracts you keep for years.

  • Rank for the pests people actually search by name
  • Same-day capture on urgent infestation searches
  • Recurring plans sold to one-time customers
  • Routes kept dense with tight service-area targeting

What it is costing you

Where the jobs are going instead

People search by pest, not by service

Nobody types pest control company. They type bed bugs, wasp nest, or termites. A single services page competes properly for none of those.

Item 1

Urgency is high and loyalty is low

An infestation is an emergency and the customer calls whoever answers. Without a plan attached, they are gone the moment the problem is solved.

Item 2

Recurring revenue is the whole game

One-off treatments make routing expensive and revenue unpredictable. Quarterly plans fix both, and they get sold at the follow-up rather than on the first call.

Item 3
Technician inspecting a bait station and crawl space entry beside a house

What you get

The system we run for pest control

Every channel links through to exactly how it works, the same page any other client of ours reads before they sign.

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What we fix

The three things holding pest control back

Not a generic marketing checklist with your trade pasted on top. These are the constraints that actually cap growth in this business.

01

Ranking for the Pest, Not the Category

Homeowners never search for a pest control company. They search for bed bugs, wasp nests, termites, or mice in the attic. Each one carries a different urgency and a different job value. We build a dedicated page for every pest and treatment you want more of, so you rank at the exact moment somebody has that specific problem.

02

Converting Panic Calls Into Recurring Plans

An infestation is an emergency, and emergency customers disappear the moment the problem is gone. We build the follow-up sequences and plan offers that convert a one-time treatment into a quarterly agreement, the revenue that makes routes dense, cash flow predictable, and the business genuinely worth something.

03

Timing Campaigns to Pest Seasons, Not the Calendar

Termite swarms, wasp season, and rodent migration all arrive at different points in the year and drive completely different searches. We build seasonal campaigns that ramp ahead of each one, instead of running a single generic message that is never quite relevant to what people are searching for right now.

When the money is

Every pest has its own season, and they do not overlap

Termite swarms, wasp season, rodents moving indoors, each is a different search at a different point in the year. One generic campaign across all of it means being visible for none of them at the moment demand actually arrives.

WinterSteady

Rodents moving indoors. Quieter overall, and the best window for plan renewals.

SpringPeak

Termite swarms and ant activity, the busiest acquisition window of the year.

SummerPeak

Wasps, mosquitoes, and general activity at its highest.

FallSteady

Overwintering pests and rodent exclusion work.

A general pattern for this trade, not measured client data. Your market will have its own shape, and we build against that rather than against this.

Free pest control marketing analysis

See which pest searches you are missing

We will show you the pest and treatment searches happening across your service area, who is ranking for them, and where the recurring plan revenue is going.

Chad and Boston Douglas, co-owners of Custom Marketing Solutions
ACCOUNTABILITYCUSTOM MARKETING SOLUTIONSPLEDGESINCE 2011

Our promise to you

Partner with a company that answers for the number.

“Handing your marketing to someone else means handing over the budget that keeps your crews busy. We don’t take that lightly.

So here’s what we commit to: you will always be able to see where your money went and what it produced, not buried in a report at the end of the quarter, but any day you want to look. We’ll tell you what isn’t working before you have to ask. And we’d rather turn down a fit that isn’t right than take money we can’t grow.

Thank you for trusting us with it.”

, Boston Douglas & Chad Westover

Read our story

In their words

What working with an accountable team actually looks like.

Read all reviews
CMS is a great partner and has enabled us to take our advertising to a whole new level. We now have a better understanding of all our efforts and are fortunate to have a very talented group of people at CMS who have our back at all times. We highly recommend their service and expertise to anyone seeking to take their marketing to new heights!

Cody Wilcox

Google Review

Charlie and Becky, and the team at Custom Marketing Solutions have elevated our marketing strategy to new heights. The CMS strategy allows us to track where our advertising dollars are being spent, which allows us to manage our marketing budget efficiency. They helped consolidate our websites into one location, and they dispute Local Service Ad calls that are irrelevant. The team is very professional, knowledgeable, and great to work with.

David Tebbs

Google Review

Set up a brief intro call

Tell us about your pest control business

We will look at your market before the call, so it is a conversation about your actual position rather than a generic pitch.

Or call (385) 360-1230

Book your strategy call

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  • Talk through your pest control market and growth goals
  • Review the biggest visible marketing opportunities
  • Leave with clear next steps, whether we work together or not

No contract, no obligation, no pitch deck.

Or call (385) 360-1230

Documented results

Real numbers, from real client accounts

We have not published a pest control case study yet, so we are not going to imply otherwise. Here is what we have actually measured.

CMS is a great partner and has enabled us to take our advertising to a whole new level. We now have a better understanding of all our efforts and are fortunate to have a very talented group of people at CMS who have our back at all times. We highly recommend their service and expertise to anyone seeking to take their marketing to new heights!
Cody WilcoxGoogle Review

The honest comparison

Three ways to market a pest control company

One-off treatments pay once. Recurring plans are the whole business, and most pest marketing never mentions them.

Recurring plans

Custom Marketing Solutions

Marketed as the core product, because that is where the value sits

A generalist agency
Treated as an upsell after the fact
Handling it in-house
Offered at the door, never advertised

Seasonal swarms

Custom Marketing Solutions

Spend moved ahead of the pest calendar, not after the calls spike

A generalist agency
Flat budget all year
Handling it in-house
Reactive, once the phones are already ringing

Pest-specific demand

Custom Marketing Solutions

Separate pages for the pests people actually search by name

A generalist agency
One pest control services page
Handling it in-house
A list of pests on the homepage

Route density

Custom Marketing Solutions

Targeting shaped around the areas you can service profitably

A generalist agency
Whole-metro targeting regardless of drive time
Handling it in-house
Anywhere that calls

Review velocity

Custom Marketing Solutions

Prompted after service and treated as a ranking input

A generalist agency
Reported, not worked
Handling it in-house
Occasional and uneven

Reporting

Custom Marketing Solutions

Plan signups traced to the channel that produced them

A generalist agency
Leads and clicks
Handling it in-house
Route sheets and gut feel
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Before you commit

Pest Control questions

Ask a different question
01Should we build a page for every pest?

For the ones you actually treat and want more of, yes. Termites, bed bugs, and rodents are separate searches with different urgency and different job values. One combined page ranks properly for none of them.

02How do we sell recurring plans instead of one-offs?

Mostly at the follow-up rather than on the first call. The customer whose problem you just solved is the easiest plan sale you will ever make, and it usually needs an automated prompt because nobody remembers to ask.

03Is Google Maps important for pest control?

Very. Most urgent pest searches show a map pack first and the call comes straight off the listing. If your profile is thin you are invisible at the exact moment somebody needs you.

04Do you have pest control results you can show us?

Not a published case study. Our documented results are in plumbing, HVAC, and landscaping, and we would rather point you at those than dress up something we have not measured.

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