About

About Dive In Digital

Pool Builder Marketing Built for High-Ticket Growth.

Most marketing agencies treat your pool business like any other local service. We built a performance system designed specifically for how homeowners research, compare, and invest in a custom pool.

$1.5M+ managed ad spend47 exclusive marketspool builders only
10+ yrs
We’ve worked in pool lead generation for over a decade. We know exactly which elements convert a visitor into a lead — headline, proof, gallery, form placement, page speed, call-to-action. After thousands of pool leads, we have it down to a science. This isn’t guesswork. It’s a system we’ve refined for one industry: yours.
Who We Are

Three People. Zero Junior Account Managers.

Every account is run by the same three people who built this agency — not a rotating cast of hires reading from a template.

Sky Romero, Co-Founder of Dive In Digital Marketing

Sky Romero

Co-Founder & CEO — Google Ads Strategy

20+ years running Google Ads. Sky is the architect of DID’s paid search strategy and AdTech positioning — a Google Ads Partner and published AQUA Magazine contributor who runs the strategy behind every client account personally.

Jonas, Co-Founder of Dive In Digital Marketing

Jonas

Co-Founder — Industry Operations

Owner of one of the largest pool builder companies in the Mid-South. Grew his company from a small weekly service business to building more pools than anyone else in the region.

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Former Google Engineer

Co-Founder — AdTech Infrastructure

Built the closed-loop GCLID attribution system that defines DID’s technical advantage — proprietary AdTech infrastructure engineered by someone who built systems at Google.

Earned, Not Bought

How We Became PoolCorp’s Only Marketing Partner.

PoolCorp is the world’s largest wholesale distributor of pool supplies and equipment. They track dealer order volume across their entire network — market by market, month by month.

A pattern kept showing up in their own numbers. The dealers ordering more, consistently, month over month, than everyone else in their market had one thing in common: they were all Dive In Digital clients.

PoolCorp came to us — not the other way around. That’s why we’re now the only marketing agency PoolCorp endorses to its dealer network. See the full partnership.

We didn’t pitch PoolCorp. Their own order data did.
Why It Works

Built By Engineers, Data Scientists & Pool Industry Operators

Dive In Digital’s performance infrastructure was built and refined by a team with a background most agencies can’t claim:

  • Former Google engineers with deep knowledge of how the ad algorithm actually learns
  • Enterprise data scientists who built attribution and audience modeling systems at scale
  • Operators from one of the largest pool builders in the Mid-South — people who’ve run the sales floor
  • Performance marketers managing millions in annual ad spend across high-ticket verticals

This combination lets us operate at a technical level every other agency in the pool industry cannot replicate. Clicks and impressions don’t matter — what matters is whether we’re driving signed contracts. We tie every click to a signed contract. Our reporting shows your true ROI, along with every signed contract we drove, the client’s name, and the call recording behind it. Other agencies simply don’t have the technical ability on staff to build this. We’re an AdTech company first — that’s what sets us apart from everyone else in this space.

Platform Credentials Dive In Digital · AdTech Platform
$1.5M+
Annual Managed Ad Spend
47
Exclusive Markets Protected
80+
Pool Builder Clients
10 yrs
Pool-Exclusive Data Depth

Enterprise-grade infrastructure · Fortune 500–class performance stack · Pool-exclusive vertical data · One company per market.

Trusted by the Trade Press

Why AQUA Magazine Publishes Sky’s Work.

AQUA Magazine is the pool industry’s trade publication — the one builders actually read. They don’t sell contributor spots.

Sky writes for AQUA because their editorial team trusts his read on digital marketing enough to put it in front of their entire readership. Every article is built to help builders make better marketing decisions — not to sell Dive In Digital’s services.

How We Operate

Three Principles That Drive Everything

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Pool-Only Focus

We serve one vertical. No retail, no restaurants, no e-commerce. Every insight, model, and optimization we’ve built comes from years of pool-exclusive data — depth a generalist agency cannot replicate.

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Revenue Over Leads

Lead volume is a vanity metric. We measure success by cost-per-closed-job, revenue per dollar of ad spend, and close-rate improvement. Busier isn’t better — more revenue is.

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Systems Over Guesswork

Bid logic, audience modeling, and conversion signals are engineered, tested, and refined by data. Decisions are made by the system — not an account manager’s intuition.

Book a Strategy Call

If you want more than leads — let’s talk.

We’ll audit your current setup, show you where your budget is going, and give you a clear picture of what a performance system would do for your pipeline.

  • One business dayA real answer from our team — no automated sequences.
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    Market exclusivityWe work with one builder per market. Your competitors can’t buy in.
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    No pitch decksJust a clear read on your numbers and what we’d run.

We respond within one business day. No pitch decks. No automated sequences. A real answer from Sky or a member of our team.

If You Want More Than Leads — Let’s Talk.

We’ll audit your current setup, show you where your budget is going, and give you a clear picture of what a performance system would do for your pipeline.