Two slammed seasons, two quiet ones — let's flatten your HVAC year.
We pre-sell tune-ups before the first 90-degree week, build your maintenance-agreement base through the quiet months, and ease ad spend off when dispatch is already drowning. The goal is simple: an April that pays the bills without touching the line of credit.
Where the HVAC year breaks.
Shoulder months funded out of August's profit
A July backlog dispatch can't keep up with
Repair customers gone for good after one visit
Six pieces, one flatter calendar.
Pre-season tune-up pushes in March and September
Maintenance-agreement enrollment funnels
Week-by-week ad pacing tied to board capacity
Replacement-quote follow-up that closes stale bids
Surge capture for heat waves and cold snaps
Member renewal and win-back email flows
Where the steadier schedule comes from.
PPC Management
Search and Local Services Ads paced against your real install calendar — budgets ramp ahead of the first 90-degree week and ease off once the board runs two weeks deep.
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SEO & Digital Marketing
Own the searches before they spike: AC repair pages ranking by May, furnace-ignition content live by October, and service-area pages that pull replacement research traffic all year.
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CRM Solutions
Every visit becomes a record with equipment age and last service date — so the spring campaign emails the right 400 households about a 12-year-old condenser, not a cold list.
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What actually fills the schedule in April and October?
Pre-season tune-up offers, mostly. We start pushing AC tune-ups to your past-customer list and local search audiences in March, and furnace checks in September — priced to book, usually $89 to $129, because the real value is the repair and replacement work those inspections surface. Paid budget shifts toward maintenance and indoor-air-quality terms while emergency keywords are cheap and quiet.
Can you actually grow our maintenance-agreement base?
Yes — that base is the whole flywheel. Every repair and tune-up customer gets an enrollment offer at the moment trust peaks: right after the visit. We run the follow-up email and text sequences, the renewal reminders, and the win-back campaigns for lapsed members. At $20 to $30 a month per agreement, that is revenue that shows up whether or not the weather cooperates.
How do you balance emergency calls against replacement leads?
They are different campaigns with different math. A no-cool call in July converts in hours and pays a few hundred dollars; a system replacement takes days of research and pays $8,000 to $15,000. We run them separately — emergency capture on call-only ads and LSAs, replacement on search and remarketing with financing messaging — and report cost per booked job for each, so you decide where the next dollar goes.
What stops you from overbooking us during a heat wave?
Pacing rules tied to your real capacity. Tell us your wait time — once the board runs more than three or four days out, we pull emergency spend back, get pickier about which calls we chase, and bank that budget for September. Paying $60 for a lead who then waits a week helps nobody; we would rather spend it when the trucks are hungry.
How will we know the seasonality work is paying off?
By the flatness of the curve, not just lead counts. Monthly reporting shows booked jobs by type — tune-up, repair, replacement, agreement signup — plus revenue per crew-week across the year and the trend line on your agreement base. Call tracking and the CRM tie every job back to its source. When April starts reading like June, the system is doing its job.
The math doesn't change when the trade does.
The booked-job math we run for HVAC also drives our work for plumbing companies, electrical contractors, roofing crews, general contractors, and kitchen and bath remodelers. Run your routes in Orange County? Our Irvine HVAC marketing page gets specific about that market — coastal cooling loads, city permit timelines, and the neighborhoods where heat-pump conversions are moving fastest.
Ready to fix the shape of your year?
One HVAC company per service area. Send the form and we reply within a business hour — bring last year's booked-job counts by month and we'll map the curve together.