Painting & Home Services Marketing · Newport Beach & Orange County

The marketing engine for painting contractors and home service companies.

I'm Preston Durnford, founder of PELORA. I grew up on my father's concrete crews, so I know how this really works: the first company to answer usually wins the job. We film your crews and finished work, run the ads, and automate the follow-up so your schedule stays full while you are on site. Painters, roofing, pools, flooring, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, garage doors, and more.

5.0Star rating on Google
10+ yrsOne senior team
$4.4M+Revenue, our own businesses
24/7Automated lead response
Professional painter rolling warm white paint in a bright Southern California home 16 / Home Services Painting & Home Services

The first company to answer wins the job.

Homeowners collect three quotes and hire the company that looked most professional and responded fastest. We make that you. Real video of your crews and transformations, ads tuned to your job values, and follow-up that texts back in seconds and books the estimate while the other bids are still ringing.

Key benefits
  • Crew and transformation video that wins trust
  • Google, LSA and Meta ads tuned to job value
  • Instant text-back and 24/7 estimate booking
  • Review engine and local SEO that compound
Process
01FilmOwner, crews, and finished work on real jobs.
02LaunchLanding pages plus Google, LSA and Meta ads.
03AutomateCRM, instant text-back, quote follow-up, reviews.
04CompoundLocal SEO, AI answers, monthly reporting.
In their words

Founders, in their words.

Verified and public on Google. Click any name to read it in full.

Verified · Google

“It genuinely feels like working with someone who cares about where your business is going.”

“We hired Pelora Marketing to help us build our business from the ground up and it has been one of the best decisions we’ve made. Preston and his team designed our website, set up our automations, and built an organic growth strategy tailored specifically to us.

We always feel heard. Every question gets a real answer and nothing gets glossed over. It genuinely feels like working with someone who cares about where your business is going.

If you’re an Orange County business owner looking for a team that actually shows up and delivers, look up Pelora Marketing. We can’t recommend them enough!”

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Keisha M. Simon
Local Guide · 11 reviews · 3 photos
Verified · Google

“Pelora Marketing does absolutely incredible work.”

“Pelora Marketing does absolutely incredible work. Preston has a unique talent for capturing stories in a way that feels authentic and powerful. Whether he's filming breathtaking drone footage, underwater ocean shots, or conducting interviews and client testimonials, the quality is always outstanding. He has a gift for showcasing real success stories and helping businesses connect with people on a deeper level. Professional, creative, and passionate about what he does, Preston and Pelora Marketing consistently exceed expectations. I highly recommend them to anyone looking to take their marketing to the next level.”

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Melissa Brannen
9 reviews
Verified · Google

“Communication was clear, they delivered exactly what was promised, and the results exceeded my expectations.”

“Pelora Marketing did a great job from start to finish. Communication was clear, they delivered exactly what was promised, and the results exceeded my expectations. Highly recommend them to anyone looking for reliable and professional marketing services.”

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Jake Jennings
3 reviews
Where we work

Newport Beach headquartered. On your job sites.

On the ground across Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Huntington Beach, Anaheim, and greater Orange County, with shoots in Los Angeles, San Diego, the Inland Empire, and the Coachella Valley, and home service clients across the United States.

AI Ad Creative · Made in-house by PELORA

The work.

Created with AI, in-house. This is the level of cinematic creative we produce for painters and home service companies. On-brand, premium, and built to convert.

What it costs

Painting and home services: what a lead costs, what a client is worth, what you can pay.

$1,350gross profit one client brings over 1 year, at the calculator's starting values
$190the most you can pay to win one client, a third of that profit after 26% overhead
$24the most you can pay per lead at those values

Cost per lead, Meta home improvement to Google painting: $42.95 to $138.38 (LocaliQ). The three tiles are the calculator's starting values for this type, 5 of its 7 inputs labelled assumptions there, estimates rather than figures measured for this type; change any input to yours.

Common questions

FAQ.

What exactly does PELORA set up for a painting company?

The complete lead-to-booked-estimate engine. Creative: a day filming your crews, your prep work, and finished transformations, which becomes months of ads, social content, and gallery material. Acquisition: Google Search, Local Services Ads, and Meta campaigns tuned to your job values, with landing pages that prove the work. Follow-up: CRM setup (GoHighLevel) with instant text-back the moment a homeowner inquires, 24/7 estimate booking, quote follow-up sequences at day 3, 7, and 14, and automatic review requests at final walkthrough. Search: local SEO and Google Business Profile plus AEO and GEO so AI tools like ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews recommend you. You own every account, and ad spend goes to the platforms with no markup.

How do painting contractors get more leads in Orange County?

Three sources that compound. First, Google Local Services Ads and Search ads on high-intent terms like interior painter near me, exterior house painting cost, and cabinet refinishing, pointed at the cities you serve: Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Huntington Beach, Anaheim, and greater Orange County. Second, a Google Business Profile with steady 5-star reviews so you appear in the map pack, where most homeowners actually click. Third, retargeting with real crew video so every homeowner who visited your site keeps seeing your finished work while they collect quotes. Then speed-to-lead automation makes sure you answer first, because the first professional response usually wins the job.

Do you work with other home service companies or just painters?

Painting is a natural fit because the transformations film beautifully, but the same engine works for roofing contractors, pool builders and pool remodelers, flooring, epoxy and concrete coatings, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, garage doors, window and door replacement, outdoor living and hardscape, turf and landscaping, and cleaning companies. The rule of thumb: if an average job is worth $1,500 or more, the math works. Remodelers, general contractors, and home builders have their own dedicated program on our construction and remodeling page.

How much does marketing for a home services company cost?

PELORA Marketing's retainers start at $3,500 per month for the Launch tier and scale to $7,500 per month for the Scale tier. Most established home service companies land on the Growth tier at $5,500 per month. Ad spend is billed separately and paid directly to Google and Meta with no markup. Typical job values guide the budget: an interior repaint commonly runs $3,500 to $12,000 and a full exterior $6,000 to $20,000, so recommended ad budgets usually land between $2,500 and $10,000 per month. We built a free calculator at peloramarketing.com/calculator so you can model the numbers before you spend a dollar.

Do you handle email, SMS and CRM automation for home service businesses?

Yes, and it is where most home service companies leak the most money. Homeowners inquire after hours and hire whoever answers first, so we automate: instant text and email response to every lead, estimate scheduling with reminders and confirmations, quote follow-up sequences that check in while the homeowner decides, seasonal reactivation campaigns to past customers (exterior season, pre-holiday interiors, spring turf), and review requests timed to the final walkthrough. Everything lands in one clean CRM pipeline so nothing slips while you are on a job.

Why does video matter for a painting or home services company?

Because a homeowner is letting a stranger into their home, and they buy on trust. Real video of your crew working clean, your prep and masking, and the final reveal proves the work is real, shows the people behind the company, and lets homeowners picture their own project. Static photos are easy to fake and easy to scroll past. We film on your actual jobs, then run that footage across paid ads, social, your website, and your Google Business Profile, so one shoot day fuels months of marketing.

Which areas does PELORA serve?

PELORA Marketing is headquartered in Newport Beach, California, with roots in the Coachella Valley, where Preston grew up working on his father's concrete crews. We shoot on-site across Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Huntington Beach, Anaheim, and greater Orange County, plus Los Angeles, San Diego, and the Inland Empire, and we run marketing for home service companies across the United States.

How fast will I see results?

Honest timeline. Local Services Ads can produce calls within the first couple of weeks once your profile is verified. Google and Meta search and social campaigns spend months 1 and 2 in the learning phase while we film content and build the landing pages and automation. Month 3 is usually the inflection point when cost per lead drops, and months 4 to 6 the system compounds: ads dialed in, reviews climbing, follow-up closing quotes that used to go cold. Anyone promising a flooded schedule in week one is telling you what you want to hear.

Ready when you are

Full schedules. Bigger jobs. No more chasing quotes.

Book a strategy call. We'll talk through your company, your job values, and exactly what the engine would look like for you. If we're not the right fit, I'll tell you straight.

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Influencer marketing, included from $14,000 a month

Creators run the ads now.

For home services the creators are local: homeowners filming the job, and trade accounts with a following in your county. Small fees, real people, one offer.

What it costs

Most creators are under $300 a post.

Small accounts run $150 to $400, mid-size $400 to $1,500. You pay each creator directly, never through us, and you approve each one before it is paid.

What we do

We find them, brief them, and run them.

About 30 accounts reviewed for every one signed. We negotiate, contract, brief what they can and cannot say, read every post before it goes live, then run it as your ad from their handle.

Where it lands

Every ad gets its own page.

The ad and the page say the same thing to the same person. Most agencies send every click to one general page. We build the page for the ad, which is why the click turns into a call.

How creators work for home services →Up to five creators, included from $14,000 or added to any tier.