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HVAC

Facebook ads for hvac.

The most seasonal trade there is, with the highest ticket values and the shortest windows to capture them.

Typical cost per lead
~$32
Leads that book
~38%
The number to watch
Replacement rate per hundred leads

Estimates from accounts we run, rounded down. Your close rate and your market move all three.

How this market buys

Why a HVAC company isn't like anything else.

HVAC lives and dies by weather. The first genuinely hot week produces more demand than the preceding two months combined, and the companies that win are the ones already visible when it arrives — not the ones who start advertising after the phone gets busy. By then everyone is bidding and costs have doubled.

Ticket values are high enough that the maths is forgiving. A system replacement is worth many times a service call, so you can afford an acquisition cost that would be reckless in a lower-ticket trade — provided you are actually tracking which leads become replacements rather than repairs.

Maintenance plans change the whole picture. A customer on a plan is recurring revenue and the natural source of future replacements. Companies that advertise plans rather than one-off calls build a book that keeps paying, which is a fundamentally different business to chasing the next repair.

Watch this above everything

Replacement rate per hundred leads

Two campaigns can produce identical lead volume at identical cost while one delivers replacements and the other delivers $89 service calls. Only one of those is a business.

What we'd do

Three things that move the number.

  • 01

    Spend ahead of the season, not into it

    Start before the first heatwave, while impressions are cheap and the auction is quiet. Being already known when demand spikes is worth more than any budget increase once everyone else has piled in.

  • 02

    Separate repair from replacement

    They are different customers with different values and should not share creative or a conversion event. Optimising for combined leads teaches the algorithm to find you cheap repair calls, because there are more of them.

  • 03

    Sell the plan

    A maintenance agreement is easier to say yes to than a system quote and turns a one-off into a relationship — plus it puts a technician in the home twice a year, which is where replacements actually get sold.

The mistake we see most

Turning ads off in the shoulder season

Going dark in spring and autumn saves a little and costs a lot. You lose the learning the algorithm accumulated, restart the learning phase every season, and hand the quiet months to whoever stayed visible. Lower the budget; don't switch it off.

Results

What this looks like in practice.

Padgett Medical Center

Weight loss clinics · Ocala & Tampa, FL

Two clinics with more than 1,500 reviews between them — the kind of reputation that should have been dominating their area. Instead they had a website that barely worked on a phone. Across six months it produced 20 leads between both locations, and not one of them closed.

Leads in the first month
150
80 from ads, 70 from search
Appointments booked
54
New patients
36
up from zero in six months

First 30 days after relaunch

First Call Plumbing & Restoration

Plumbing · Inland Empire, CA

A brand new business starting from nothing — no site, no Google Business Profile, no history — in a market full of established names with a decade of reviews behind them.

Revenue in month one
$13,000

First 30 days

“I started with Viterium Digital about 2 months ago and the results have been absolutely amazing. They have sent patients into our clinic without any effort at all from us. They were qualified, they came in, they spent money. It's been absolutely excellent. After trying 17 different marketing companies this is the only one that I can honestly say has truly worked — and it has worked so well that we started with them for our second location.”
Ashley PadgettAshley PadgettCFO & Co-Owner, Padgett Medical Center
  • “Abe is obsessed with good results to a fault. You might get texts really late at night because he works really late, but he has that obsessive personality and I think that's why it works so well. He really cares about his work and prides on putting his name on things.”
    JBJoey BensonOwner, First Call Plumbing & Restoration

Pricing

No quotes. No it depends.

Here is what it costs, on the page, before you speak to anyone. You pay for ad management — the website and the search work are part of it, not extras.

Standard

Limited intake

$1,497 per month

$797per month

Everything we do, at the lowest rate we have ever run it for.

Best value

Identical work for $1,203 a month less. Straightforward terms, with no refund attached.

Guaranteed

Most protection

$2,000per month, paid up front

The same work, with your money back if you want it.

Money-back guarantee

Not happy at the end of your first month, for any reason at all? Say so and we return your full management fee. No conditions, nothing to prove, no arguing. Your ad spend went straight to Meta on your own card, so that part was never ours to return.

Website only

$500 once, then $50/month

Ads don't make sense at your budget yet, but the website still does. We build it now so it's earning for you before you ever spend on ads.

  • — Custom build, not a template
  • — Hosting, updates and fixes included in the $50
  • — Setup fee waived
  • — Move up to full management whenever the numbers work

In every plan

  • A custom website, built free and looked after while you're with us
  • SEO management, included at no extra cost
  • Content and posts created for you
  • Facebook and Instagram ads built and managed
  • Reporting on cost per lead and cost per booked job
Right now
$797 a month
Down from $1,497 while the current intake is open. It is the rate you pay for as long as you stay on it, not a first month that steps up later.
Setup fee
Waived
For everyone. There is no onboarding charge.
Contract
Month to month
Seven days' notice to cancel. Commit to several months and we'll discount it — but nothing obliges you to.
Ad spend
$1,500 – $3,000
Your choice, and it goes straight to Meta on your own card. We never mark it up or run it through us.
Your ad account
Stays yours
We work inside your account. If you don't have one we'll set it up in your name.

HVAC

Let's look at your numbers.

A 30-minute call, no deck and no pitch. We look at your numbers and tell you whether we can move them.

No contract to sign on the call. No obligation afterwards.