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Three HVAC marketing services, for a handful of residential and light commercial HVAC contractors at a time: local SEO - your Google Business Profile, reviews and reputation management included - Facebook ads, and HVAC website design. I report on the calls that turned into jobs, not impressions.
Every call and every report is me. Not a junior, not a rotating account manager.
Max 10 clients at a time · No monthly contracts · No setup fee
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Three HVAC marketing services, not nine. Reputation management is not a fourth line item - it sits inside local SEO, because reviews are what move the map pack and charging separately for them is how agencies pad a retainer.
What's included
What's included
What's included
Not on the list: Google Ads, Local Services Ads and Google Guaranteed, HVAC PPC, email marketing, and social media growth. They are all real channels that work - I am average at all of them, and average at spending your ad budget is not a service worth charging you for. If that is where your money should go, you'll hear it on the first call. The longer version is in the uncomfortable part further down.
No email. No opt-in. Answer and see it.
Local SEO, Facebook ads, or a new site: the right answer depends on what you already have and how fast you need work. The result appears on this page, straight away.
Money
The answer most agencies make you book a call to hear.
Monthly retainers in local service marketing typically run between $1,500 and $6,000, with ad spend added on top and any website work priced separately. What you actually get for that money varies a lot, so ask three questions before signing anything.
First, who is doing the work day to day? Second, what gets built that you own if you leave? Third, what happens when you want out? If the site, the ads account, and the phone number all stay with the agency, the retainer is not the real price. The real cost is what it takes to walk away.
Mine runs $1,000 to $3,000 a month, under the middle of that range because there is no account management layer to pay for. Local SEO and Facebook ads are one monthly retainer with no contract and no setup fee. Ad spend goes straight to Meta. A website is quoted separately as its own project. You own the site, the domain, the ad account, the tracking number and the Google Business Profile from day one, and all of it leaves with you if we stop.
The name
Because I got tired of watching HVAC contractors pay for marketing they didn't understand - and watching agencies report on things that didn't matter or were outright made up.
Here is what I noticed about marketing agencies since 2013.
That is why I started Honest HVAC Marketing - an agency focused on the only numbers that matter to your business: calls that turned into jobs, and what you kept after you paid me.
The uncomfortable part
Every agency has a list like this. Most of them let you find out in month three. Here's mine, before you've booked anything.
I'm good at three things: local SEO for HVAC contractors - which covers your Google Business Profile, your reviews and your reputation management - Facebook ads, and building sites that turn visitors into calls. Google Ads is a separate skill and I'm average at it. Average at spending your money is not a service worth charging for.
Social media growth is the same answer. Building a following, posting job photos daily, replying to comments - people who do that all day do it better than I would, and I'm not going to bill you to be mediocre at it. Two things I do handle. Your Google Business Profile posts get reposted to your social pages, because that content is already written and putting it in a second place costs nothing. And Facebook ads, which is a different job entirely: one is publishing and hoping the right homeowner sees it, the other is putting a specific offer in front of people in your service area who match who you want to reach.
If either is genuinely what you need, you'll hear that on the first call, along with what to look for in someone who does it properly. I don't take a referral fee for that.
Most agencies using AI keep quiet about it because they assume you'll ask for a discount. That tells you what they're using it for - doing the same work with fewer people.
I use it to do more work, not cheaper work: reading through competitor pages and search data at a volume no one has time for, drafting more variations to test, turning research around in days instead of weeks. A person still edits, checks and signs off on everything that goes live. You're paying for what the marketing produces, not for hours logged.
No sales team, no account managers, no setup fee to fund - the retainer only covers the work itself. You can find someone to "do HVAC SEO" for a few hundred a month. What arrives is a report, not results.
If price is the deciding factor, take the cheaper option. That is a fine outcome for both of us, and I would rather say it here than talk you into something you will resent in month two.
Month one is fixing what's broken and getting your Google profile in order. Calls usually start ticking up by the end of month two. The compounding - the part where you stop paying for every lead - shows up closer to month six.
Anyone promising page one in thirty days is either counting keywords nobody searches or buying links that will cost you later. If you need work booked next week, say so and I'll point you at Facebook ads instead, which turns on in days.
Honest HVAC Marketing is a small team - four to six people, ten clients maximum. I oversee every account personally, and the team is kept small on purpose so each client gets proper attention. You talk to the people doing the work, not a middleman.
The trade-off is throughput. I can't turn around six landing pages by Friday the way a forty-person shop can. If your plan needs that kind of volume, tell me before you sign and you'll get a straight answer on whether I can do it.
None of this is on the homepage by accident. If one of them is a dealbreaker, far better you found out here than three months in. If none of them are, book an advisory call and I'll get into the specifics of your market.
In their words
Unscripted, recorded by the business owners themselves.
Interviews
HVAC marketing agencies fool you with SEO metrics that can be manipulated easily.
Learn what works
The same explanations I give clients, in the open. Watch these and you'll know enough to hold any agency, including mine, to account.
Research and straight talk
Three studies built from live data, not opinion: 17,241 customer reviews, 430,066 backlinks, and 998 companies ranked across 46 markets. Plus two videos on what actually breaks an HVAC marketing campaign, and what fixes it. All of it published in full, free, whether you hire us or not.
Every review of 95 contractors in five cities, read rather than counted. 60.8% of reviews that name a price are negative.
Read the review studyThe link profile behind the number one map-pack result in 45 US cities. A quarter of them have no real links at all.
Read the backlink studyMap-pack position correlated against reviews, links and star rating. Reviews win. Star rating does nothing.
Read the ranking studyThe pattern we see across failed HVAC SEO contracts, before you're three months in and stuck.
What actually drives HVAC leads, said straight instead of sold to you.
How I'm different
| What matters | Honest HVAC Marketing | A typical agency |
|---|---|---|
| Who they take on | Residential & light commercial HVAC | Any local business that signs |
| Clients at one time | Maximum of 10 | As many as sales can close |
| Who does the work | A small team - founder on every account | A rotating account manager |
| Commitment | No monthly commitment required | Six to twelve month lock-ins |
| Setup fee | None | $1,000 to $10,000 to build |
| Who owns the website | You do, and it moves with you | Held on their platform |
| What gets reported | Calls that became jobs | Rankings and leads |
| When it isn't a fit | You hear it on the first call | You find out at month three |
| Channels they won't run | Google Ads and social media growth, I'm average at both | None, everything is in scope |
| Reputation management | Bundled into local SEO - reviews and profile posts | A paid add-on, billed separately |
Proof
After eight weeks of Honest HVAC Marketing local SEO work, the grid for a residential HVAC contractor in Greenwood, Indiana showed average Google Business Profile position moving from 16.82 to 8.33 and top-three placements moving from zero to 28.99 percent of the grid.
This is a month-two visibility snapshot, not a booked-job claim. The booked-job numbers are not in yet, which is why they are not shown. The compounding effect and booked jobs that follow are still ahead of this scan.
The June 5 2026 baseline scan beside the July 29 2026 scan, same grid of search points.
Fit check
I take on a handful of HVAC contractors at a time, so I'd rather be honest on the homepage than three months into a project.
Questions I get
No fluff. If I don't know the answer, I'll say so instead of guessing.
Begin with the jobs you actually need, not a percentage pulled from thin air. Figure out how many installs and service calls you want to book next season, then work backward through your close rate. That math will show you what your marketing has to deliver.
For most residential shops, that number ends up between 5% and 10% of revenue. Around 5% will maintain the ground you already have. Around 10% makes sense if you are adding trucks and trying to grow.
If your phone handling is losing calls, put the first dollar there. Fixing that is cheaper than paying to replace leads you already had.
When a system quits, the homeowner searches, taps one of the first few listings and calls whoever answers. So the order is: be in the map pack for your service area using local SEO, send that click to a page that says what you fix and makes calling one tap, then answer the phone the same day.
Reputation sits under all of it: steady reviews from real jobs move the map more than anything you can buy. Facebook ads can get you leads right away, but you need a solid sales process and reviews in place because those leads need both trust and a prompt response to convert.
The more reviews you have on your Google Business Profile and your website, the better.
Beyond traditional search, you also want to show up in AI-generated answers from tools like ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews. The short version: you need consistent brand mentions across the web from trusted sources - directories, trade associations, review sites - so the AI systems recognize your business as a credible answer.
Monthly retainers in local service marketing typically run between $1,500 and $6,000, with ad spend added on top and any website work priced separately. What you get for that varies a lot, so ask who does the work day to day, what you own if you leave, and what happens when you want out.
The full answer, including how my own pricing is shaped, is further up this page under what HVAC marketing services cost.
No. Google Ads, HVAC PPC and Google Local Services Ads are all real channels that work, and I am average at all three. Average at spending your ad budget is not a service worth charging you for, so I don't sell it.
What I will do is tell you on the first call whether that is where your money should go. Local Services Ads in particular are worth knowing about: they are the Google Guaranteed listings that sit above the map pack, you pay per lead instead of per click, and getting approved means passing a background and license check. For a lot of residential shops they are the fastest way to buy calls. If that is your situation, you'll hear it, along with what to look for in someone who runs them properly. I don't take a referral fee for that.
What I do sell is local SEO, Facebook ads and HVAC website design. Three things, done properly, instead of nine things done adequately.
Not as standalone services. Content marketing overlaps with local SEO, so the pages that need writing to rank your service areas get written as part of that work. What I don't do is run a blog calendar for its own sake. Most HVAC contractors do not need one, and the ones who do are usually better served fixing their service area pages first.
Email marketing and social media growth I leave alone. Building a following, running a newsletter, replying to comments daily - people who do that full time do it better than I would.
The one exception on social: your Google Business Profile posts get reposted to your social pages, because that content is already written as part of your local SEO and putting it in a second place costs nothing.
Three: local SEO, Facebook ads and HVAC website design, with reputation management sitting inside the first one rather than billed as a fourth.
What is in each one, how long each takes and how each is priced is set out in full further up this page under HVAC marketing services I provide.
Most HVAC marketing agencies will show you the same deck. Here is what actually separates them.
Ask who does the day to day work. If the person on the sales call is not the person on your account in month two, you are buying a rotating account manager.
Ask what you own if you leave. The website, the domain, the ads account, the tracking number, the Google Business Profile. If any of those stay behind, the retainer is not the real price.
Ask what they refuse to sell. An agency that says yes to Google Ads, HVAC SEO, email, social, video and reputation management is either very large or very average. Ask which one.
Ask what gets reported. Rankings and leads are easy to make look good. Calls that turned into booked jobs are not.
Ask how many HVAC clients they take on at once, and whether any of them compete with you for the same service area.
The timeline depends on which service I am providing. With Facebook ads, you can expect calls to start coming in within the first week of launching. With local SEO, calls usually begin to pick up by the end of the second month.
Shaurya Jain, founder of Honest HVAC Marketing Agency, will be your point of contact and will be managing your account.
No, you don't need to sign a contract, but I'd advise giving any marketing channel at least three months before judging results from it.
Something not covered here? Ask it on the first call - if the honest answer is that you don't need me yet, that is the answer you'll get.
One call, twenty minutes. You will get a straight answer on whether local SEO, Facebook ads or a new site is the right move for your HVAC business right now. And if you sign up, there is a 90-day money-back guarantee - if you are not happy with the work, you get a full refund.
Book an advisory callNo monthly contracts. No setup fee. (239) 499-5273.
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