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HVAC Marketing Agency
our techs are the easy part. The hard part is keeping the board full in April and October, and knowing which channel produced the $14,000 system replacement instead of another $89 tune-up. We build the local SEO, Google Ads, Local Services Ads and Google Business Profile system that fills the schedule in all four seasons and tracks every job back to its source.
The problem diagnosis
Every issue below traces back to the same root cause. Demand arrives when the weather says so, and the marketing was built to catch it rather than to create it. Here is what that looks like from the dispatch board.
01
July and January the phones melt. April and October the board is half empty and you are finding work for crews you cannot afford to lose. Nothing was built during the peak to carry the shoulder season, so every spring you start from zero again and every spring the same techs start looking around.
02
One ad group is bidding the same on AC not cooling and AC tune-up special. One of those is a homeowner in a hot house who will approve almost anything. The other is a coupon shopper. When they share a budget, the coupon shopper wins on volume and the replacement job goes to the competitor whose ad showed at 2pm on the hottest day of the year.
03
Private-equity backed HVAC groups and franchise brands are buying every contractor in your metro and consolidating their local search footprint. They have full Google Business Profiles, hundreds of reviews and a Local Services Ads budget. Your profile has the wrong primary category, no service list and photos from two years ago.
04
The call tracking says the campaign produced 40 calls. It does not say that six of those became maintenance agreements and two became full system replacements three weeks later. So the channel that actually pays the bills looks expensive on the dashboard and gets cut.
The Grid Key growth system
Each service works alone. Run together they compound: rankings lower your click costs, the site converts both emergency and planned demand, and the reporting tells you which job came from where.
Own the map pack and organic results in every city your trucks reach. Google Business Profile optimization with the correct primary category, service area pages built on real job volume rather than every town in the county, HVAC schema markup, review velocity tied to job completion, and citation cleanup so your NAP matches everywhere Google checks.
A site built for a homeowner standing next to a dead furnace. Loads fast on a phone, click-to-call fixed to the screen, financing and rebate eligibility visible before the fold, separate paths for emergency repair and planned replacement, and booking that lands in your dispatch software instead of an inbox nobody checks after 5pm.
Google Ads, Local Services Ads and Performance Max split by intent, not by keyword. Emergency repair, tune-up and system replacement each get their own campaign, budget and bid strategy, so a coupon search never outbids a no-cool call in August. Dayparting matched to your dispatch capacity. Offline conversion import so Google optimizes toward completed job value.
ontent that answers what a homeowner asks between the breakdown and the deposit. Repair-or-replace decision guides, furnace and AC replacement cost by system size, heat pump conversion and rebate eligibility, refrigerant changeover explainers, SEER2 in plain English. Structured to win the Google AI Overview slot and to be the source ChatGPT and Perplexity cite.
Proof that you exist and that your techs are the kind you let into a house. Install walkthroughs, before and after ductwork, crew and owner footage, seasonal maintenance reminders. Paid retargeting to every homeowner who got a replacement quote and did not sign.
Truck wraps, uniforms, quote folders and ad creative that look like one company. A homeowner comparing three replacement bids picks the one that looks like it will honor a ten-year warranty.
What working with us feels like
You will always know what is running, what it cost, and which jobs it produced.
We map your service area against every competitor and roll-up holding the map pack inside it. Google Business Profile audit, site crawl, ad account teardown, review gap, and a review of your last twelve months of jobs to find which zip codes, system types and job categories actually carry margin.
The channel mix gets built around your capacity, your tech count and your service-to-replacement ratio. A shop running 60% maintenance agreements needs a different plan than one chasing changeouts. A light commercial operation serving property managers needs a different plan again. No recycled HVAC template.
We build the pages, the profiles, the campaigns and the tracking. Call tracking on every channel, GA4 configured for HVAC, and offline conversion import from your field service software so Google bids toward completed job value instead of whoever filled out a form.
Client Case Study
A [residential service and replacement] HVAC contractor in [metro, state] ran hot in July and January and idled in the shoulder seasons. Paid search ran as a single campaign, so tune-up coupon searches consumed the budget that should have been buying no-cool emergency calls. The Google Business Profile carried the wrong primary category and had not been posted to in over a year. Nobody could connect a replacement sale back to the marketing that started it.
We rebuilt the local footprint first: correct primary category, complete service list, weekly job photos, and a review request triggered on job completion in [field service software]. Service area pages were written for the 40+ cities carrying real volume. Paid search was split into emergency repair, tune-up and system replacement campaigns with separate budgets, landing pages and dayparting. Offline conversion import connected completed job values back to the keyword that produced them, and shoulder-season budget shifted to maintenance agreement acquisition.
Within 6 months, qualified HVAC leads increased by 164%, cost per lead decreased by 38%, local keyword rankings reached the Top 3, and the company achieved a steady flow of high-value residential roofing projects without relying solely on storm seasons.
Why Choose The Grid Key
No juniors on your account. The specialist who audited your market runs the campaign, with [7]+ years in home services paid and organic search.
Call volume is not a result. We report completed jobs, average ticket and maintenance agreements added. If a campaign produced 40 calls and 3 jobs, that is what the report says.
The $89 tune-up that becomes a $14,000 changeout six weeks later gets credited to the campaign that started it. Most agencies close the attribution window at the call and systematically undervalue the channel that produces your highest-ticket work.
Campaigns and service area pages are scoped to where your trucks actually go, and dayparted to when you can actually dispatch. We do not buy calls you cannot answer so a dashboard looks fuller.
Repair-or-replace questions increasingly get answered inside Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity before a homeowner clicks anything. Every page we build is structured to be the source those answers cite: answer-first formatting, HVAC schema, entity consistency across your profiles.
Month to month with 30 days notice. If we stop producing jobs, you leave. That constraint is why the reporting stays honest.
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Most US HVAC contractors invest between $2,500 and $10,000 per month depending on service area size and channel mix. Our minimum engagement is $2,500 per month, and we work with HVAC companies doing $500K or more in annual revenue. Ad spend is separate and paid directly to Google, never marked up by us.
Measurable ranking movement usually appears in 60 to 90 days, with meaningful job volume around month six. Google Business Profile work moves fastest, often inside 30 days. Paid search and Local Services Ads produce calls in week one, which is why most HVAC accounts run both from the start.
Shoulder season is where maintenance agreements get sold, and maintenance agreements are what flatten the next one. We shift budget in April and October toward tune-up and agreement acquisition, indoor air quality, and duct work, then use that customer base as owned demand when the next peak hits.
Both, for different jobs. Local Services Ads and the Google Guaranteed badge win emergency no-cool and no-heat calls at a cost per lead that search often cannot match. Google Ads is where you control the message for high-ticket system replacement, where the buying decision is longer and the landing page matters more.
We report completed jobs and maintenance agreements instead of phone calls, split emergency, tune-up and replacement into separately tracked campaigns, cap ourselves at one HVAC client per metro, and build every page for AI search from day one. Senior specialists run the accounts.
