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In this episode, Dan sits down with Tateum O'Hanlon, owner of Summit Pest Control out of Guelph, Ontario. Tateum is 21 years old and started Summit in May 2025 after seeing his parents' neighbor get quoted nearly $1,000 for mosquito control. Just over a year later, he's at $70,000 a month with four full-time employees, he's fully out of the truck, and roughly half of his revenue comes from social media.
Tateum breaks down the exact social media strategy that fueled his growth, including why he leads with educational content instead of memes and edits, how he pulls video topics straight from Google's most searched questions, why he posts twice a day across five platforms, and the reposting trick that turns one proven video into hundreds of thousands of views. He also explains how his organic content cut his Meta ads cost per lead in half, and why he pulled AI off the front end of his customer experience while keeping it running on the back end.
Tactical takeaways include how Tateum charges nearly double his competitors and still wins the job, why his customers pay for the full year upfront and how that cash fuels aggressive marketing, the team structure that got him out of the truck in under a year with a commission-only closer, a VA, and two technicians, how the Pest Control Millionaires program shifted him from one-time jobs to recurring services, and his vision to become the biggest residential pest control company in Canada.
Tateum O'Hanlon, Founder of Summit Pest Control:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tateum-o-hanlon-8192a717b/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tateum.ohanlon/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tateum.ohanlon
Website: summitpestcontrol.ca
Dan Leibrandt, Co-Founder of Pest Control Millionaires:
Facebook: https://facebook.com/DanLeibrandtOfficial
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danleibrandt/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanLeibrandt
Website: https://danleibrandt.com
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:02 How Tateum Got Into Pest Control
04:27 The First Few Months in Business
06:25 Getting Started on Social Media
09:56 The Reposting Trick and Finding Video Topics
14:15 Charging Double and Getting Paid Upfront
18:07 Why He Pulled AI Off the Front End
21:24 The Social Media Strategy Boiled Down
24:25 Getting Out of the Truck
31:42 Team Structure: Closer, VA, and Two Technicians
33:54 Back-End AI and the Claude Chrome Extension
36:40 Inside the Pest Control Millionaires Program
41:01 Meta Ads: Offers, Volume, and Follow-Up
46:25 The Vision and Final Message
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