Proven Marketing Solutions, LLC
#1 in Damage Restoration
Water restoration-focused agency driving crisis-moment leads via Google Ads, Local SEO, and reputation management.
- Founded
- 2015
- HQ
- Lakeway, TX
- Team
- 6-15
Founder
Meet the founder
Kevin Wilke
Founder & CEO
Kevin Wilke is the founder and CEO of Water Restoration Marketing (legally Proven Marketing Solutions, LLC), a Las Vegas-based agency that works exclusively with damage restoration contractors. His entrepreneurial history, per the company's About page, stretches back to selling used golf balls from his family's farm at age 14. Wilke began working online in 1996 while in college, which he describes as the start of a career spanning several internet businesses through the late 1990s and 2000s.
In 2009, during the Great Recession, Wilke shifted his focus to helping local service businesses acquire customers online and launched his first digital agency. Around that time he also founded the Local Marketing Association, a peer group for agency owners that, according to the site, worked with thousands of operators on client results and operational standards.
In 2017, after direct experience with the restoration vertical, he narrowed the firm's focus to water, fire, mold, and disaster restoration companies — the thesis being that emergency home services reward specialization more than generalist marketing does, because the buying window is measured in minutes and the keyword economics are unusually punishing for anyone who doesn't know the category. The agency today states it has worked with 130+ restoration companies and generated more than 250,000 inbound calls, and it appeared on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies. The public founder biography on the site is relatively brief and leans on business history rather than formal credentials.
Editorial
Editor’s take
Water Restoration Marketing positions itself as a vertical specialist for water damage and related restoration services (mold, fire, packout). The site emphasizes exclusive, high-intent call generation tied to emergency search moments and claims 250,000+ calls delivered to 130+ clients over 9+ years. Service stack is standard for the category—paid search, local SEO, web design, reputation management. Testimonials highlight job-value outcomes,…
What they do
Services
Google Ads
Paid search campaigns built specifically around emergency water, fire, and mold queries, with keyword lists tuned from data across 250,000+ restoration calls to exclude the tire-kicker and DIY searches that plague generalist accounts. The goal is exclusive, real-time phone calls from homeowners already standing in water, not shared or resold leads.
Google Maps Optimization
Local pack and Google Business Profile work aimed at putting restoration operators in the top three map results for emergency queries in their service area, where the majority of in-crisis taps and calls happen on mobile.
Local SEO
Organic search visibility across city and service-type queries (water damage, mold remediation, fire and smoke cleanup, pack-out) in the contractor's geography, positioned as the long-term complement to paid campaigns.
Websites
Conversion-focused sites built for restoration companies, emphasizing trust signals, phone-first calls to action, and fast load times appropriate for panicked mobile visitors. The agency's portfolio shows dozens of such builds for operators from Wilmington, NC to Houston, TX.
Reputation Management
Systems for generating and surfacing five-star Google reviews, which the agency treats as a ranking and conversion input rather than a vanity metric, given that a homeowner in crisis often picks from the first one or two names with visible social proof.
Proof of work