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- Written by: Chad J. Treadway
- Category: Wildlife Control Marketing
You know the accounts. Forty buildings under one property manager. A hospital campus. Six HOA boards inside your radius, every one of them paying somebody right now to do work you do better.
You have never won one, and you cannot find the door. So the usual answer is a bigger ad budget aimed at the same eight words you already lose.
That is the wrong lever. Commercial wildlife control marketing does not work like homeowner marketing, because the buyer does not find you the same way and does not decide the same way. We read websites built for nuisance wildlife companies most weeks of the year, and nearly all of them are built for one person: a homeowner who heard something in the attic last night.
A property manager is not that person. She has a vendor already. She keeps him until something goes wrong, and when it does, she asks two people she trusts and then looks you up.
That look-up is the whole game. Your website is where you lose it.
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- Written by: Chad J. Treadway
- Category: Wildlife Control Marketing
Open your own website and count the pages. Raccoon removal. Squirrel removal. Bat removal. Bird removal. Attic inspection. Dead animal removal. Nine pages, maybe more, each one written as it matters.
Now find exclusion. It is a bullet point on the services page, three words long, sitting under "and repairs."
That gap is the whole wildlife exclusion marketing problem in one screen. The work that opens the door gets nine pages. The work that pays for the truck gets one line. We have spent this year reading hundreds of operators' sites, and this gap is easy to spot once you know to look for it.
Your website should look like your invoice. If it looks like your dispatch log instead, it is selling the wrong job.
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- Written by: Chad J. Treadway
- Category: Wildlife Control Marketing
You paid $85 for a raccoon call last Tuesday. You called back in 11 minutes, which is fast, and the homeowner had already booked somebody else. The $85 stayed spent. That is not bad luck and it is not a callback problem. It is the product working the way it was built to work, because the wildlife control leads you buy from an aggregator are not sold to you alone.
We look at a lot of sites belonging to independent wildlife control companies, and almost every owner-operator we talk to is buying leads, resenting it, and not sure what the alternative is. So this post does two things. It names exactly what an aggregator sells you, and it puts an honest price on the thing people tell you to do instead.