Pest Control Marketing That Actually Works

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Pest Control Marketing That Actually Works: The Growth Podcast Stop wasting money on marketing that doesn't deliver. Pest Control Marketing That Actually Works is the weekly podcast for pest control business owners who want real results, not empty promises. Hosted by Adam Bennett and Elisabeth Pallante from Cube Creative Design, each 20-minute episode delivers practical strategies you can implement right away. No fluff. No theory. Just proven tactics from a team that's spent 20 years helping pest control companies grow. What You'll Learn: Every episode tackles a specific marketing challenge pest control operators face. From building a website that converts visitors into customers, to running Google Ads that actually pay off, to creating content that ranks on page one. You'll hear what works, what doesn't, and exactly how to tell the difference. We cover topics like: Getting more leads from your website without spending more on adsBuilding a review strategy that brings in new customers on autopilotCreating content that ranks for searches in your service areaRunning paid ads that generate profit, not just clicksUsing email and automation to turn one-time customers into recurring revenueHiring marketing help without getting burnedWho This Podcast Is For: If you run a pest control company with 2-15 trucks and revenue between $250K and $5M, this show was built for you. Whether you handle your own marketing or manage a small team, you'll get strategies sized right for your business. Episodes are designed for busy operators. Listen on a drive between service calls and walk away with three clear takeaways you can use that week. About Your Hosts: Adam Bennett is CEO of Cube Creative Design, a digital marketing agency founded in 2005. He's helped dozens of pest control companies build marketing systems that deliver consistent growth. Elisabeth Pallante is Content Operations Manager at Cube Creative. She leads the content and SEO strategy that has helped clients increase web traffic by 154% year-over-year. They're joined regularly by Chad Treadway, Chief Marketing Officer, along with social media specialist Hannah Kilpatrick and web project specialist Emily Porter. What Makes This Show Different: We don't sell ads or sponsorships on this podcast. Every minute is focused on giving you value. We share the same strategies we use with paying clients because we believe in leading with generosity. At the end of each episode, we offer a free marketing audit at marketingthatactuallyworks.ai. No obligation, no pressure. Just a clear look at what's working in your current marketing and what's costing you money. New Episodes Every Tuesday Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Leave a review if the show helps you. It's the best way to help other pest control operators find us. Ready to stop guessing and start growing? Hit subscribe and join us next Tuesday. Pest Control Marketing That Actually Works is produced by Cube Creative Design, a HubSpot Gold Partner agency based in Western North Carolina. Learn more at marketingthatactuallyworks.ai

  1. 1d ago ·  Video

    Commercial Accounts: The Content That Wins Property Managers

    Most pest control companies want commercial accounts but have websites built entirely for homeowners. In this episode, Adam Bennett, Elisabeth Pallante, and Hannah Kilpatrick unpack why that gap exists and how to close it. The team shares Cube Score data from a dozen pest control sites pursuing commercial work. The finding: commercial-facing pages averaged 185 out of 600 on the Cube Score while the same companies' residential pages averaged 380. The biggest gaps showed up in Authority and Transparency, the two dimensions commercial buyers weight most. The episode walks through five content layers a property manager needs to see before they request a proposal: a dedicated commercial services page, case studies with measurable outcomes, a clear proposal process, pricing transparency, and a separate commercial contact path. Most pest control sites have zero of these five. Hannah covers the three channels where commercial buyers actually find providers. LinkedIn posts with specific commercial outcomes (complaint reduction, inspection pass rates) get 4x to 6x more engagement from property management professionals than general pest content. Commercial Google searches use completely different keywords than residential. And local business association directories convert better than most companies expect. The hosts also debate whether commercial pricing belongs on the website and discuss when a company should chase commercial work versus shoring up residential first. This week's quick fix: Write a 200-word paragraph describing your commercial services, property types, and proposal process. Publish it as its own page. Then post the same summary on LinkedIn with a photo of your truck at a commercial property. Two touchpoints, 15 minutes. Three Key Takeaways: The content that wins homeowners actually pushes commercial buyers away. Property managers need different proof, different language, and a different path to contact you.A commercial-ready website needs five layers: a dedicated page, case studies, a clear proposal process, pricing transparency, and a separate contact path.Commercial buyers find you on LinkedIn, through commercial-specific Google searches, and in local business directories, not the same channels that bring residential leads. Download the free Commercial Account Readiness Worksheet at marketingthatactuallyworks.ai Get your Cube Score at thecubescore.com Hosts: Adam Bennett (CEO), Elisabeth Pallante (Content Operations Manager), Hannah Kilpatrick (Social Media Manager) | Cube Creative Design

    Commercial Accounts: The Content That Wins Property Managers

  2. Sep 8 ·  Video

    Website Conversion Optimization: Advanced Tactics

    A pest control company came to us after another agency redesigned their website. Beautiful site. Conversions dropped 40%. Same traffic, fewer calls. That is the most expensive website mistake in pest control. In this episode, Adam Bennett and Elisabeth Pallante break down the Conversion Stack, the five layers between a visitor landing on your site and that visitor picking up the phone. Most owners skip straight to changing button colors. This episode shows you why that is the wrong starting point. Three key takeaways: Your conversion rate matters more than your traffic. A one-point improvement on a page you own pays you back every month without another dollar spent.Work the Conversion Stack from the bottom up: speed, clarity, trust, friction, then the ask. Most owners skip to the ask and wonder why nothing changes.Your highest-traffic page and your highest-converting page are probably not the same. Find the gap. Send your money where the conversions are. We walk through real client data: a seven-field form cut to three that lifted submissions 40% in the first month. A client spending $2,000 a month on Google Ads sending everything to their homepage while their termite page converted at three times the rate. A company that went from 3% to 7.5% form conversion just by adding starting prices. We also get into the fix-vs-rebuild question, and we don't agree. Elisabeth says fix first because motion beats perfection. Adam says sometimes motion on a broken foundation is just expensive motion. The Cube Score's Structure side might be the tiebreaker: below 40, rebuild. Between 40 and 60, fix first. Above 60, you're tuning. The math: 1,000 visitors at 2.5% conversion is 25 leads. Move it one point to 3.5% and that is 35 leads. At $300 per job and a 50% close rate, that one-point improvement is worth $1,500 a month, $18,000 a year, from a page you already own. And unlike an ad, the fix stays fixed. This week's fix: Pull up your website on your phone. Open your highest-traffic service page. Try to call your own company in under two taps. If you can't, that is the fix. Fifteen minutes in any CMS. Resources mentioned: Free pest control marketing audit: marketingthatactuallyworks.aiCheck your Cube Score: thecubescore.comEpisode 26: The Transparency Problem (pricing deep dive) Hosts: Adam Bennett (CEO), Elisabeth Pallante (Content Operations Manager) Produced by Cube Creative Design Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. New episode every Tuesday.

    Website Conversion Optimization: Advanced Tactics

  3. Sep 1 ·  Video

    Fall Marketing Strategy: Preparing for Pest Season

    Everybody in this industry calls fall the slow season, so everybody spends less in the fall. That's the mistake. Adam Bennett, Elisabeth Pallante, and Chad Treadway on why September through November is the highest-leverage window on your calendar, and what to build in it. What's in this one: Fall demand doesn't drop, it moves indoors. Rodents, spiders, stink bugs, boxelder bugs, cluster flies. Every pest control site in America has a mosquito page and a termite page. A lot of them have no rodent page at all, which is backwards on ticket size and backwards on urgency. Nobody comparison shops for three days after hearing scratching in the ceiling. The Six Month Rule. New service and local pages on pest control sites generally take three to six months to settle where they'll rank. So run the calendar backwards: if you want to be visible for termite swarmers in April, you're writing in October. Every publishing decision is a decision about a season two quarters out. That's why fall is the Build Season. Why waiting is the expensive option. There's a large pest control community advising operators to hold off on SEO and content until a million in revenue. Chad's take: you're not deferring a cost, you're deferring the start of a compounding asset, and you can't buy those three years back at any price. Organic traffic is down roughly 27 percent overall as AI answers absorb clicks (HubSpot, 2026), while AI referral traffic is up about 3x year over year (Search Engine Land). Going quiet in the shoulder season is the wrong response to both. A disagreement we left in. Chad says when September revenue is soft and the schedule has holes, his honest advice in that room is to put the money in Google Ads and keep the trucks moving. Elisabeth says that's the call that keeps these companies on the treadmill after eight years. Adam refuses to settle it, and then names the one case where this whole episode is wrong: if your capacity is seasonal, marketing into fall demand generates leads you'll disappoint. The build list. A real rodent page. The overwintering pest content nobody writes. A winter service page. Your remaining local pages. And the page most pest control sites are missing entirely: a seasonal pest calendar for your actual service area, month by month. Anybody can write a rodent page. Only you can write the calendar for your county. On the Cube Score, that lands on Structure, Visibility, and Authority. One Thing to Fix This Week: open Google Search Console, last twelve months, filter your queries for rodent, mice, and rat, and see which page is ranking. If it's your homepage, you just found your fall project. Free pest control marketing audit: marketingthatactuallyworks.ai Get your Cube Score: thecubescore.com New episode every Tuesday. Next week: Website Conversion Optimization, Advanced Tactics, with Emily Porter.

    Fall Marketing Strategy: Preparing for Pest Season

  4. Aug 25 ·  Video

    Customer Lifetime Value: Why Retention Beats Acquisition

    Most pest control owners can quote their cost per lead to the dollar and can't tell you what a customer is worth. In this episode, Adam Bennett, Elisabeth Pallante, and Chad Treadway run the numbers that change marketing budgets. Not lead volume. Lifetime value, churn, and what it actually costs to replace a customer you already had. What's in this one: The lifetime value math, three numbers deep. Annual revenue per customer, average years retained, gross margin. Chad walks a standard quarterly plan out to lifetime gross profit, and Elisabeth points out that the one number doing all the work in that equation is the one nobody checks. The Retention Point. Adam names it: the dollar value of one percentage point of annual retention. On a thousand customers, that's ten customers times your lifetime gross profit. Then he introduces Replacement Cost, which is the share of last year's ad budget that went to buying back customers who walked out the back door. The four places pest control customers leave. The first-year price roll, the technician change, the missed appointment, and silent churn on annual plans where nobody cancels because nobody asks. Three of the four are communication problems. Why your website is a retention document. When a customer gets a price increase, a lot of them go back to your site to decide whether they're being taken advantage of. On most pest control sites there's nothing there. Two sides of the Cube Score cover this directly: Transparency and Proof. About 92 to 93 percent of pest control companies publish no pricing at all (Marcus Sheridan's buyer behavior research), and companies that do publish see two to four times the conversion lift. Our own twist: the bigger payoff isn't the first sale, it's the third year. A real disagreement we didn't edit out. Chad says if you're under 70 percent retention, cut your lead spend. Elisabeth says that's how you lay off a technician in ninety days. Adam won't resolve it, and then complicates the episode's own advice: retention marketing on top of bad service is lipstick. One Thing to Fix This Week: pull your cancellation count for the last twelve months, divide by your starting customer count, and calculate your Retention Point. Fifteen minutes. Free pest control marketing audit: marketingthatactuallyworks.ai Get your Cube Score: thecubescore.com New episode every Tuesday. Next week: Fall Marketing Strategy, Preparing for Pest Season.

    Customer Lifetime Value: Why Retention Beats Acquisition

  5. Aug 18 ·  Video

    Your Truck as a Marketing Asset

    Your pest control trucks are on the road every day. Are they selling for you or just driving? In this episode, Adam Bennett and Elisabeth Pallante are joined by Cube Creative CMO Chad Treadway to break down why your truck is the cheapest and most underused marketing asset you own. You'll learn that a single wrapped truck generates 30,000 to 70,000 impressions per day at a cost of under a dollar per thousand views, making it 10 times more cost-efficient than billboards. You'll hear why the truck parked in your customer's driveway is doing more selling than most of your ads, how 85% of pest control customers live within five miles and see your truck before they ever see your website, and why most pest control wraps waste half their surface on information nobody can read at 35 miles per hour. Chad walks through exactly what should and shouldn't be on a wrap, Adam breaks down the two-job break-even math, and Elisabeth connects the truck to the AI search signals that decide who gets recommended online. Plus the three-impression stack that turns every service call into a marketing event and the $50 action step you can do before your next route. See where your marketing stacks up free at thecubescore.com. Get your free pest control marketing audit at marketingthatactuallyworks.ai.

    Your Truck as a Marketing Asset

  6. Aug 11 ·  Video

    Listener Q&A Part 1

    Most marketing advice is generic. This episode isn't. We pulled the real questions pest control owners keep asking us and answered six of them straight. How much should you actually spend on ads before it stops paying off? Hint: watch your cost per lead, not your total spend.Are Local Services Ads still worth it now that Google killed manual disputes and replaced them with an automated credit system?How do you know where your leads actually come from when every customer just says Google?Why do you show up in the map pack but not in regular search resultsWhy are people clicking your ads but never calling? Anddoes Facebook actually bring in pest control jobs? Adam Bennett and Elisabeth Pallante from Cube Creative Design give practical answers built from 20 years of working with pest control companies, including the one client who was spending 40% of his ad budget on a channel producing 12% of his booked jobs. Plus the new segment: One Thing to Fix This Week, a five-minute action you can knock out before next Tuesday. See where your marketing stacks up free at thecubescore.com. Get your free pest control marketing audit at marketingthatactuallyworks.ai.

    Listener Q&A Part 1

  7. Aug 4

    Forms, Chat, and Contact Methods: Capture Every Lead

    Your ads are working. Traffic is landing on your site. And then 40% of those visitors leave because your only visible contact option is a phone number they don't want to call. In this episode, Adam Bennett and Elisabeth Pallante are joined by web project specialist Emily Porter to break down the contact methods that catch the leads your site is leaking. You'll learn why most pest control contact forms convert at half their potential because they have too many fields, how to set up a chat widget as a lead capture tool in about two hours for under $60 a month, and the full contact method stack that covers every type of visitor from the ready-to-buy caller to the repeat customer who just wants to schedule. Emily walks through how to take your site from one contact method to four in a single weekend without spending a dollar on ads. Plus the response time benchmarks that separate a 20% close rate from a 40% close rate, and a new segment, One Thing to Fix This Week, with one change you can make before next Tuesday. See where your site's Structure score stands, free, at thecubescore.com. Get your free pest control marketing audit at marketingthatactuallyworks.ai. Pest Control Marketing That Actually Works is produced by Cube Creative Design. New episodes every Tuesday.

    Forms, Chat, and Contact Methods: Capture Every Lead

  8. Jul 28 ·  Video

    The Phone Call: Converting Leads to Booked Jobs

    Your marketing worked. The phone rang. And then 35 to 40% of those callers never booked. Not because the marketing failed. Because the phone call failed. In this episode, Adam Bennett and Elisabeth Pallante are joined by Cube Creative CMO Chad Treadway to break down the phone skills that turn inbound calls into booked inspections. You'll learn why the first 15 seconds of every call decide whether you win or lose the lead, the three-part greeting that puts you in control from word one, why quoting prices over the phone turns you into a free estimate machine (and what to say instead), and the two-option close that lifted one client's phone-to-appointment rate from 40% to 60%. Plus the follow-up text system that rescues 20 to 25% of leads that didn't book on the first call, and the one action step that takes 30 minutes and shows you exactly where your phone process is breaking. See where your site scores free at thecubescore.com. Get your free pest control marketing audit at marketingthatactuallyworks.ai.

    The Phone Call: Converting Leads to Booked Jobs
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Pest Control Marketing That Actually Works: The Growth Podcast Stop wasting money on marketing that doesn't deliver. Pest Control Marketing That Actually Works is the weekly podcast for pest control business owners who want real results, not empty promises. Hosted by Adam Bennett and Elisabeth Pallante from Cube Creative Design, each 20-minute episode delivers practical strategies you can implement right away. No fluff. No theory. Just proven tactics from a team that's spent 20 years helping pest control companies grow. What You'll Learn: Every episode tackles a specific marketing challenge pest control operators face. From building a website that converts visitors into customers, to running Google Ads that actually pay off, to creating content that ranks on page one. You'll hear what works, what doesn't, and exactly how to tell the difference. We cover topics like: Getting more leads from your website without spending more on adsBuilding a review strategy that brings in new customers on autopilotCreating content that ranks for searches in your service areaRunning paid ads that generate profit, not just clicksUsing email and automation to turn one-time customers into recurring revenueHiring marketing help without getting burnedWho This Podcast Is For: If you run a pest control company with 2-15 trucks and revenue between $250K and $5M, this show was built for you. Whether you handle your own marketing or manage a small team, you'll get strategies sized right for your business. Episodes are designed for busy operators. Listen on a drive between service calls and walk away with three clear takeaways you can use that week. About Your Hosts: Adam Bennett is CEO of Cube Creative Design, a digital marketing agency founded in 2005. He's helped dozens of pest control companies build marketing systems that deliver consistent growth. Elisabeth Pallante is Content Operations Manager at Cube Creative. She leads the content and SEO strategy that has helped clients increase web traffic by 154% year-over-year. They're joined regularly by Chad Treadway, Chief Marketing Officer, along with social media specialist Hannah Kilpatrick and web project specialist Emily Porter. What Makes This Show Different: We don't sell ads or sponsorships on this podcast. Every minute is focused on giving you value. We share the same strategies we use with paying clients because we believe in leading with generosity. At the end of each episode, we offer a free marketing audit at marketingthatactuallyworks.ai. No obligation, no pressure. Just a clear look at what's working in your current marketing and what's costing you money. New Episodes Every Tuesday Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Leave a review if the show helps you. It's the best way to help other pest control operators find us. Ready to stop guessing and start growing? Hit subscribe and join us next Tuesday. Pest Control Marketing That Actually Works is produced by Cube Creative Design, a HubSpot Gold Partner agency based in Western North Carolina. Learn more at marketingthatactuallyworks.ai

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  • Creator
    Cube Creative Design
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    37
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Cube Creative Design

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