Pay Per Call Marketing in Orange County, CA for Exterminators & Pest Control

CAL FIRE maps 166,967 acres of Orange County as Very High fire hazard (Source: CAL FIRE.), much of it in the canyons and foothills that wrap the inland side of the county. Many homes back straight onto that brush, and twice a year it sends their owners to the phone. When clearance crews strip the slopes each spring, the rats, woodrats and mice that lived in the chaparral move to the nearest garage. When a fire burns through, the move happens in a night. Those calls come from a handful of streets at once, from Mission Viejo to the hills above Anaheim, and the callers want someone out this week.

The caller rarely knows the name of the pest

Most people who ring have not identified anything. They say "droppings behind the fridge", "something running along the fence after dark" or "tiny brown beetles in the flour". That description goes to your technician exactly as spoken, together with the property address and whether the caller lives there, so whoever answers already knows whether to bring snap traps and sealant or a vacuum and pantry liners. Diagnosis is your job, and the caller's own words are the best start you will get.

Management offices and kitchens

The county counts 1,082,960 households (Source: census.gov.), and a large share of them live in buildings someone else looks after. A management office calling about units in Garden Grove and Santa Ana, or a restaurant group with kitchens in Costa Mesa and Irvine, will often name several addresses before the first question is answered. That call is handed in one piece to one company, and it should be quoted as a route rather than a visit. Expect questions about service records and how a missed visit is made up; a manager is choosing a vendor, not a treatment.

Selling the plan on the first call

The normals for John Wayne Airport show no nights at all at 32F or below (Source: ncei.noaa.gov.), so whatever got into a house this month is still there next month. The best moment to offer quarterly or monthly service is during the first conversation, while the caller is still looking at the droppings. A booking that ends without that offer hands the customer to whoever they ring next time.

The edges of a connected call

It is one live Orange County caller, one pest problem, an address inside the cities you named, and your phone alone. Nobody else is sold that conversation, which is what we mean by exclusive. Left on our side and never billed:

• skunk, squirrel or bird work you do not offer;
• an address outside the cities you named, which in a county of 3,149,507 people (Source: census.gov.) is checked by street, not by area code;
• a caller who only wants a bug identified;
• a call that drops before it reaches you.

The California rule for a pest control company taking calls in Orange County, CA: Structural pest control companies must register with the Structural Pest Control Board and designate a Qualifying Manager who holds an Operator licence in the branch where the company is registered; Registered companies must carry a minimum of $500,000 in general liability insurance (Source: pestboard.ca.gov).

Orange County, CA, for a pest control company working these calls: City of Santa Ana (county seat): an out-of-city business doing business in Santa Ana must obtain its own separate Santa Ana business license (Source: santa-ana.org).

Worth knowing as a pest control company buying calls in Orange County, CA: CSLB says contractors are required to put their CSLB licence number in all advertisements, and unlicensed operators must state in their ads that they are not state-licensed and can only perform work valued at less than $1,000; Homeowners waive their three-day right to cancel (five-day if they are 65 or older) if they sign a service and repair contract, which is usually emergency repair work the consumer initiated (Source: www2.cslb.ca.gov).

Calls go only to exterminators and pest control companies who can lawfully take the job in Orange County, CA.

Places in Orange County, CA the pest control company call campaign covers, as the source lists them: Incorporated cities include Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine, Huntington Beach, Garden Grove, Fullerton, Costa Mesa, Mission Viejo.

County seat on the pest control company call map for Orange County, CA: Santa Ana.

The same pay per call service for exterminators and pest control companies in the counties next to Orange County, CA: Exterminators and pest control companies in Los Angeles County, Exterminators and pest control companies in Riverside County, Exterminators and pest control companies in San Bernardino County, Exterminators and pest control companies in San Diego County.

Other trades we run calls for in Orange County, CA: Locksmiths, Roofers, HVAC & Air Conditioning Companies, Plumbers, Mobile Mechanics, Painters, General Contractors, Property Management Companies.

Orange County, CA is one of the 64 counties we cover for exterminators and pest control companies, and every one is listed on the Exterminators & Pest Control pay per call index.