Water Restoration Marketing

Kevin Wilke is the founder and CEO of Water Restoration Marketing, a Las Vegas-based agency that works exclusively with damage restoration companies. His entrepreneurial track record predates the internet era: he began selling used golf balls off his family's farm at 14 and launched his first online marketing venture in 1996 while still in college, betting early on what he then called a 'fad.' That thesis carried him through several online businesses before the 2008 downturn reshaped his focus. During the Great Recession in 2009, Wilke pivoted toward local businesses, arguing that Main Street operators were the ones most starved for reliable customer acquisition, and started his first digital agency. He also founded the Local Marketing Association, a peer group that trained agency owners on delivering measurable outcomes for local service businesses. Water Restoration Marketing grew out of that broader local-services background. Wilke's thesis for the firm is narrower than most agencies would be comfortable with: restoration is an emergency-services category where the buying window is measured in minutes, not days, and generalist marketing playbooks miss it. By working only with water, fire, mold, and disaster restoration operators, the agency has accumulated roughly nine years of keyword-level and call-level data about what actually books jobs versus what generates noise. The firm reports 130+ restoration clients served, more than 250,000 tracked calls generated, and a placement on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies. The public-facing team page is thin beyond Wilke himself, so most of the site's credibility argument rests on client case studies rather than staff bios.