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AC technician checking refrigerant pressures
AC technician checking refrigerant pressures
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Technician walking homeowners through options on a tablet

AC and HVAC

Your year swings between too many calls and not enough.

What hurts

  • The first heat wave or hard freeze can double or triple calls in an hour
  • Shoulder months go quiet while techs and trucks stay on payroll
  • Cutting hours loses good techs, and discounts teach customers to wait for a sale
  • A non-branded Google lead averages about $149

What gets missed

  • Systems 7 years and older that nobody calls about until they fail
  • Lapsed maintenance plans drifting to a competitor
  • Replacement quotes that never got a second call
  • Your best time to call past customers, the mild months, going unused

What works

  • Pre-season tune-ups and no-charge inspections from your own customer list
  • Outreach that steps up in shoulder months and backs off at peak
  • Replacement follow-up on aging systems
  • Inbound overflow and shift coverage for weather surges

Read next: our guide, the calculators, or the industry stats.

Best practices

Best practices for this trade

Missed calls

Calls ring out at lunch, after 5 and on the first hot or cold day, and most of those callers don't call back.

  1. Measure your true answer rate by hour of day, not your gut feel. Most owners guess high.
  2. Cover the gaps on purpose: lunch, the first and last hour of the day, Saturdays and the first big weather day.
  3. Set an overflow rule: after a set number of rings or calls waiting, calls roll to a second person or an outside team.
All 6 practices, and when to get help

Empty slots and the shoulder season

The board is full in peak season and thin in spring and fall, while payroll and trucks cost the same every month.

  1. Look at last year's board by week, and mark the soft weeks before they arrive.
  2. Start calling past customers four to six weeks before the slowdown.
  3. Book by area and time window, so trucks aren't crossing town.
All 6 practices, and when to get help

See what's in your customer list

Book a free 30-minute database equity audit with Don. You'll see, in dollars, what your past customers could book this season.