For pest control companies

Where should I start?

• How pest control leads work The six steps from a homeowner’s question to your phone, and what is not built yet.
• Partner FAQ Volume, pricing, exclusivity and rankings, answered plainly, including where the answer is no.
• Register your interest Tell us where you work and which license categories you hold. Nothing to sign.
• Lead quality standard The eight rules every inquiry follows, published so you can hold us to them.

What is HyrePest?

hyrepest.com publishes independent information for homeowners with a pest problem: what the signs point to, what each treatment involves, what moves the price and how to read a contract. We do no pest control work and hold no license. We intend to introduce readers to companies that can help them.

What will HyrePest never become?

• A lead auction. One inquiry, one introduction. We do not sell one person to five companies and let you race to the phone.
• A reseller. Every inquiry starts on this site, from someone who read a page. We buy no traffic and syndicate nothing.
• A directory. No profiles, ratings or rankings, so there is no position to buy.
• A review platform. We carry no reviews, because we have no policy for collecting them.
• A badge seller. We will never call your company “trusted”. We name what we checked and let the homeowner decide.

What has a homeowner read before contacting you?

What your customer already knows matters more than a volume figure. Someone who reaches you through this site may already have read that:

• Identification comes before treatment, and a proposal that names no species is not finished.
• They should ask for the product name, EPA registration number, where it goes and the re-entry interval.
• Exclusion, sanitation and moisture fixes are real work that gets quoted, not favors.
• A first-year total is the number to compare, not a monthly fee.
• Retreatment-only and retreatment-and-repair are different products.
• Nothing gets signed on a doorstep.

If that sounds like a harder customer, notice who it is harder for. A company that inspects properly, names the species, quotes the exclusion work and explains the contract has had half the conversation done for it. See what we tell homeowners to check and how we explain contracts.

What would we ask of you?

The same things we tell homeowners to check. How we vet shows which checks are in place.

• A current state applicator license, in the right category. Checked with the issuing agency, not taken from a certificate. A license in general pest control is not a license in termite work.
• General liability and workers’ compensation. Confirmed with the carrier named on the certificate, once that check is built.
• A written inspection before a treatment proposal. It makes proposals comparable, and it is what we already tell homeowners to expect.
• Product details on request. Product name, EPA registration number, where it goes and the re-entry interval. EPA already tells homeowners to ask for this.
• Contract terms stated plainly. Term, renewal, cancellation and what the guarantee covers. We do not ask you to change your terms, only to state them.
• A reply time you can keep. Whatever you can actually commit to. A slower time that holds beats a faster one that does not.
• Tell us when an inquiry was bad. Out of area, a duplicate, unreachable or only researching. We cannot fix what nobody reports.

What would we not ask?

• Exclusivity. We would not charge for exclusivity we cannot deliver.
• A minimum spend. We would not ask for one against volume we have not produced.
• Changes to your business. Your prices, products and contract terms stay yours.
• Review campaigns. We do not carry reviews, so we would not ask you to gather them.
• Payment for coverage. There is no editorial mention to sell.