Houston local marketing: the A/C license number goes in the ad.

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation requires air conditioning and refrigeration contractors to include their license number in advertisements, and its enforcement schedule lists the omission as a Class A violation carrying a $500 to $1,000 penalty. In Houston, where air conditioning is closer to infrastructure than comfort, that covers a great many ads: paid search, Local Services Ads, Business Profile posts, mailers, the van.

Weather sets the rest of the plan. Heat waves send searches up in hours; storms do it in minutes. Campaigns for both should be built in advance and paused until needed, so a surge of calls meets a ready budget rather than a scramble. When the first big storm of the season is forecast, a ready campaign goes live in minutes; building one from scratch takes days. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, three weeks every March, does the same for restaurants, hotels and anyone near the grounds. So does every heat wave that pushes the afternoon high past what an older unit can manage.

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