The RS Gonzales Blog

Everything I Have Learned Getting HVAC Phones To Ring

89 articles on heating, cooling and home services — written between client calls, filed by topic, and read in 12 minutes on average. Nothing here is about anybody else's industry.

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Why Are HVAC Rankings Not Turning Into Leads in 2026?

If your rankings held this year but the phone got quieter, you are not imagining it. The problem is not always your position on your dashboard. It is what homeowners see before they ever reach you.

Sarah Gonzales Sarah Gonzales05 SEP 2026 12 min read
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HVAC Marketing Strategy

Which HVAC Marketing Agency Is Right for You?

You have been here before, or you are about to be: a slick sales call, a year-long contract, and monthly reports full of numbers that never became a single booked job. Picking the wrong agency…

Sarah Gonzales Sarah Gonzales29 AUG 2026 12 min read
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HVAC Marketing Strategy

Stop Selling Heat Pumps on a Tax Credit That’s Gone

The $2,000 credit that closed your deals is gone. The demand isn’t. For three years, one line did a lot of your heat pump selling for you: “Save up to $2,000 with the federal tax credit.” It sat on…

Sarah Gonzales Sarah Gonzales24 AUG 2026 8 min read
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HVAC Marketing Strategy

What Is a Good HVAC Cost Per Lead in 2026?

Every HVAC contractor stares at an ad bill at some point and asks the same question: ”Am I paying too much?” Wrong question. The…

Sarah Gonzales Sarah Gonzales6 JUL 2026 14 min read
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Paid Ads

Why Are HVAC Ads So Expensive

HVAC ads are expensive because you’re competing for customers who are ready to spend right now. That’s just the reality of the…

Sarah Gonzales Sarah Gonzales13 MAY 2026 14 min read
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The Archive, Measured

89 Articles, 1,053 Minutes

Two things worth knowing before you start: how long these actually take, and how steadily they got written. The shortest is 4 minutes and the longest is 32.

How Long These Take To ReadMedian 12 Min
4-7 min15
8-11 min29
12-15 min30
16-19 min11
20+ min4
Articles Published Per Year2020 – 2026
22020
142021
72022
92023
122024
212025
242026

The longest silence in the archive is 319 days, between August 6, 2020 and June 21, 2021. It is left showing rather than backfilled.

Sarah Gonzales, founder of RS Gonzales, in front of a green map of the United States

From Sarah

I Write These Between Client Calls

Every article in this archive started as a question a contractor asked me on a call — about a cost per lead, a Google Business Profile that stopped ringing, a website somebody wanted to rebuild when it did not need rebuilding.

That is also why there is no article here about restaurants or dentists. Heating, cooling and home services is the only industry we work in.

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