HVAC marketing for the first hot day.
HVAC demand swings with the weather — the phone rings when the AC dies in July and the furnace quits in January, then quiets in between. Marketing has to be ready for the spike, steady in the shoulder seasons, and feed the maintenance plans that carry the slow months. Local Services Ads, search, and local SEO, measured to the booked call. Planned, built, and reported in-house from Seattle, Tampa, and Orlando.
Measured to the booked call, not the click.
HVAC budgets are wasted when they spend evenly year-round and get caught flat-footed the week demand triples.
So spend paces to the thermostat — ramping into heat and cold spikes, holding coverage in the shoulder seasons — and the KPI is cost per booked call, tracked through call tracking to a scheduled truck.
Local Services Ads, the map pack, and search work as one budget, with maintenance-plan nurture carrying the slow months and the dashboard showing what each produced.
The three realities HVAC marketing runs on.
Demand peaks with the thermostat
The first heat wave and the first freeze triple the phone volume. Budget and campaigns are staged to ramp into those spikes and hold coverage between them — not spread evenly across twelve months.
Repair and replacement are different buyers
A no-cool emergency and a $12,000 system replacement behave nothing alike. Campaigns split the urgent repair call from the considered replacement, with messaging and pages built for each.
Maintenance plans are the recurring win
Service agreements smooth the slow months and raise lifetime value. Marketing feeds plan sign-ups, not just one-off calls, so the off-season isn’t dead air.
What we run for HVAC companies.
How an engagement runs.
Goals in booked calls
Discovery starts with unit economics: what a call is worth by service type, how demand moves with your seasons, and what your crews can absorb. Channels get picked to match.
KPIs before launch
Call tracking and form events tied to booked calls, with targets in writing before the first dollar moves. If we can’t measure it, we don’t launch it.
Optimize in the open
You see every dollar — where it went, what it returned, what we changed and why. The dashboard is live, not a monthly PDF.
Earn the renewal
A monthly strategy review walks through the numbers together. Stay because the work is working — no contract makes you.
What it costs — honestly.
Ad management — Google Ads, Local Services Ads, paid social, display, and video — runs at 20% of monthly ad spend, with a $500 monthly minimum. The rate steps down as spend scales, and larger or multi-location operations run on a flat-rate retainer, so extra budget goes to media, not management. SEO/GEO/AIO plans are flat from $1,299 per month. Every fee is itemized in the proposal.
- No setup fees
- No long-term contracts
- Retainer option — one set fee
- Live reporting dashboard
Questions we get from this vertical.
Whether LSAs work for HVAC, how we handle seasonal swings, what HVAC marketing costs, and the terms.
Usually, yes — HVAC is one of the core Local Services Ads categories. LSAs charge per lead instead of per click, show above search with a Google Guaranteed badge, and let you dispute leads that aren’t real. Most companies run both: LSAs for lower-cost, high-trust calls and search for the volume and control LSAs can’t offer.
By pacing to the thermostat, not the calendar. Budget and campaigns ramp into heat and cold spikes when the phone triples, hold coverage in the shoulder seasons, and lean on maintenance-plan promotion to carry the slow months. Spending evenly year-round is how HVAC budgets get caught flat-footed.
It depends on your market, your seasons, and whether you’re growing service calls or system replacements — a replacement is worth many times a repair. We scope backwards from what a call is worth and the local cost per lead. The management fee is published: 20% of monthly ad spend with a $500 monthly minimum, stepping down at higher spend.
Expect movement in 3–6 months. Local SEO — profile health, reviews, service-area pages — often moves fastest, while competitive service terms compound over time. We set milestones at onboarding and report against them monthly.
No. Everything is month to month, with no setup fees. We earn the renewal every month — stay because the work is working, not because a contract says you have to.
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