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Beyond the Truck Roll Ep 11

Beyond the Truck Roll Ep 11: Data Over Sales: The Air Doctor's Approach to HVAC

What if the best HVAC salespeople aren’t really selling at all? Brynn Cooksey — better known as The Air Doctor — has spent more than two decades in...

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Create Loyalty

HVAC Contractor Marketing Beyond Google

The Leads Google Can Move On an August morning, the owner of a heating and air-conditioning company opens the Local Services Ads dashboard: to see...

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Brynn Cooksey - Air Doctor

The Contractors Who Stopped Fixing Air Conditioners and Started Diagnosing Homes

For most of HVAC's history, the job began and ended at the unit. A homeowner calls because something is loud, warm, or dead, a technician arrives,...

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Beyond the Truck Roll Ep 10

Beyond the Truck Roll Ep 10: Why a Doctor Started an HVAC Company

In this episode of Beyond the Truck Roll, we sit down with Dr. Toya Luces Sampson, co-owner of General Heating & Air, to discuss her remarkable...

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Beyond the Truck Roll

Beyond the Truck Roll Ep 9: How AI Is Changing HVAC Marketing

Marketing an HVAC business is getting more competitive—and the strategies that worked a few years ago aren't enough anymore. In this episode of...

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The first answer is rarely the whole answer

What a Former OB-GYN Learned About HVAC in Her First Six Months

When Dr. La Toya Luces-Sampson left medicine to help run an HVAC company outside Houston, she assumed the steepest learning curve would be technical:...

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Edwin Childs

The Marketing Shift Every HVAC Contractor Needs to Understand

For years, HVAC growth followed a familiar formula: buy more Google Ads, generate more leads, book more calls. Simple math. More spend in, more...

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Beyond the Truck Roll

Beyond the Truck Roll Ep 8: Building an HVAC Company Homeowners Actually Trust

Building a successful HVAC company takes more than technical expertise. In this episode of Beyond the Truck Roll, we sit down with Jason Boehning,...

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“The money is usually where people are avoiding.”

The fortune is in the follow-up

Insights from Ryan Fenn, Founder of Chiirp, on the Beyond the Truck Roll podcast.

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