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
Editor’s Choice — honoree press kit available
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Meet the founder
Kevin Wilke
Founder & CEO
Kevin Wilke is CEO of Water Restoration Marketing, a restoration-focused agency he co-founded in 2017 after experiencing a water damage emergency in his own home. He previously launched multiple digital marketing businesses and founded the Local Marketing Association.
Editorial
Editor’s take
Proven Marketing Solutions positions itself as a vertical specialist in water damage and restoration marketing, with a focused service stack spanning Google Ads, Local SEO, web design, and reputation management—all built around capturing high-intent leads at crisis moments. The agency's roster of 130+ clients and 9+ years in the niche speak to sustained category depth, reinforced by a claimed 250,000+ calls delivered across their client base. Testimonials emphasizing job-value outcomes reflect a client base that measures success in restoration contracts won, making this agency a credible fit for operators prioritizing emergency call volume.
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