What's the safest way to move my HVAC marketing to a new agency?<\/h2>\n
Switch HVAC marketing agencies in a set order: list every account the old agency touches, get your own owner or admin access to each one before you give notice, add the new agency to those same accounts, and only then remove the old agency. Keep your existing Google Ads account, Google Business Profile, Analytics and website instead of letting anyone start fresh, because the history lives in them. Plan the tracking phone numbers and any website move early, since a number port can take weeks and a site rebuild needs redirects from the old pages.<\/p>\n
Whoever you hire next, hold them to this order: your accounts stay in your company’s name, and the agency works inside them. We ask for three months in our contract, but if you want to leave, we won’t make you stay, and every package on our packages page<\/a> includes call tracking, a real-time dashboard and a monthly report, so the numbers keep running through a switch. Our HVAC marketing<\/a> page shows the full setup, how to choose an HVAC marketing agency<\/a> covers picking the next one, and the rest of the HVAC marketing questions<\/a> library goes question by question.<\/p>\n More than most owners expect, and almost all of it is avoidable. The things that go missing in a messy switch:<\/p>\n The contract decides a lot of this; what to look for in an agency contract<\/a> covers the clauses. This page is about the move itself, in order.<\/p>\n Every account and asset the agency touches, who owns it today, and the login email on it. A simple sheet with these rows is enough:<\/p>\n For each row, write who’s listed as owner or admin. Anything where the answer isn’t your company is a task for Step 2. Do this quietly, before notice, while everyone is still cooperating.<\/p>\n Ask the current agency to add you, in writing, at the top level of each one. What “top level” means differs by platform:<\/p>\n If you’re not sure what access you have today, checking whether your agency is getting results<\/a> shows where to look in each account.<\/p>\n Yes, in almost every case. The account holds your campaign history, conversion setup and years of search terms, and none of it moves to a new account. The new agency links to your existing account from its own manager account and works inside it.<\/p>\n Ownership is the part to watch. Google lets a client account have only one owner manager, and if a manager created the account, it became the owner automatically. An owner manager can grant or revoke admin access and transfer ownership to another manager. Google is also clear that this doesn’t take data ownership or administrative rights away from the client account, which still owns its data (Google Ads Help<\/a>). So with your own Admin login, you can unlink the old manager and let the new one link in. Because an owner manager can also remove users and revoke admin access, ask the old agency in writing to turn off its ownership or transfer it to the new agency’s manager account as part of the handover.<\/p>\n Billing is worth checking at the same time. If the old agency pays Google and bills you back, set up your own payment method in the account before the switch so the ads don’t stop the day the agency’s card comes off.<\/p>\n Decide this early, because it takes the longest. Two options:<\/p>\n Either way, the number on your Google Business Profile and listings should be one you control. If those details are scattered across the web, fixing your name, address and phone<\/a> covers the cleanup.<\/p>\n If the site stays where it is and the new agency just takes over the logins, nothing has to move. Get the admin login, the hosting login and a full backup, and you’re done.<\/p>\n If the new agency is rebuilding the site, or moving it off the old agency’s platform, follow Google’s site-move guidance (Google Search Central<\/a>):<\/p>\n In our judgement, don’t stack a site rebuild on top of an agency switch in your busy season. Move the accounts first, then rebuild once the new agency knows your business. Choosing a website platform<\/a> covers what to check if the site is on a platform you can’t take with you.<\/p>\n Anything that lives in the agency’s own tools rather than your accounts:<\/p>\n Data inside accounts you own, like Google Ads, Analytics and Search Console, stays put. Review replies stay on the Business Profile too; Google says a removed user’s past replies and posts remain.<\/p>\n Long enough that nothing goes dark. In our judgement, a workable order looks like this:<\/p>\n Read your contract for the notice period and line it up with this. Avoid making the handover the first week of a heat wave or cold snap; a switch in spring or fall gives everyone room to fix what turns up.<\/p>\n Last, after the new agency has confirmed it’s working in every account and the tracking numbers are sorted. Then go account by account:<\/p>\n Keep a short record of what you removed and when. If anything stops working, that list tells you where to look first.<\/p>\n Check three things a month or two after the handover:<\/p>\n If the numbers dip, find out whether it’s tracking or a real drop before blaming the new agency. Tracking whether your marketing is paying off<\/a> covers how to tie leads back to jobs in your own software.<\/p>\n A free visibility audit checks the Google profile, reviews, site and tracking, and shows what to fix first.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Season decides the timing.<\/strong> A handover in the middle of the first heat wave is when a broken tracking number or paused campaign costs the most. Plan the switch for spring or fall where you can.<\/p>\n Numbers live on equipment.<\/strong> HVAC companies put phone numbers on equipment stickers, wrapped vans and maintenance reminders that stay in homes for years. Find out which number is on each before you replace any of them.<\/p>\n Maintenance plan reminders keep running.<\/strong> If the old agency set up automated tune-up emails or texts, find where they’re sent from and move them, or members stop hearing from you right before the season.<\/p>\n This is an illustration with made-up dates, not a real client. Say your contract has a 30-day notice period and you decide to switch in late February.<\/p>\n The switch finishes in April, before the first heat wave. For context, when we’re the new agency, onboarding takes your team about 2-3 hours and campaigns go live in weeks 1-2. Our Essentials package is $3,500 a month, with ad spend paid to Google separately. Whether a switch is worth it for your company is what a free visibility audit is for.<\/p>\n If its manager account owns the account, it controls access until that changes. Google says the client account still owns its data, and an Admin on your account can unlink managers, so get your own Admin login first.<\/p>\n Changing who manages your accounts doesn’t by itself. A website rebuild or move can cause fluctuations while Google recrawls, which is why redirects and a careful URL map matter.<\/p>\n They stay on your Business Profile, which is why you want to be its primary owner. Review replies the old agency posted also stay on the profile after its access is removed.<\/p>\n Not as part of the switch. Move the accounts and tracking first, then decide on a rebuild once the new agency has seen how the current site performs.<\/p>\n Ask in writing and point to your contract. For the Business Profile, Search Console and domain, each platform has its own ownership process; start them early, since the platforms set their own waiting periods.<\/p>\n That depends on what you signed. Read the term, notice and early termination clauses, and do the access steps first either way, since you need them whether you leave now or later.<\/p>\n We'll look at how you show up locally and where calls are leaking, then send you a plain-English breakdown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Switch HVAC marketing agencies without losing your ad account, Google profile, phone numbers or website rankings: the order to do it in, step by step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","ll_review_state":"approved","ll_template_version":"v1","ll_sources":"[\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/google-ads\/answer\/7456532?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/google-ads\/answer\/9978556?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/3403100?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/9305788?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/7687615?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.callrail.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/5711677430669-Port-a-phone-number-away-from-CallRail\", \"https:\/\/support.callrail.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/5711301368717-Call-Log\", \"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/docs\/crawling-indexing\/site-move-with-url-changes\"]","ll_faq":"[{\"q\": \"Can my old agency keep my Google Ads account?\", \"a\": \"If its manager account owns the account, it controls access until that changes. 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Step 1: What should I list before I tell my agency I'm leaving?<\/h2>\n
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Step 2: How do I get owner access to each account?<\/h2>\n
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Step 3: Should my new agency use my existing Google Ads account?<\/h2>\n
Step 4: What happens to my call tracking numbers?<\/h2>\n
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Step 5: How do I move my website without losing my Google rankings?<\/h2>\n
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Step 6: What data should I download before the old agency leaves?<\/h2>\n
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Step 7: How long should the old and new agency overlap?<\/h2>\n
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<\/figure>\nStep 8: When should I remove the old agency's access?<\/h2>\n
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What should I not do when switching agencies?<\/h2>\n
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How do I know the switch didn't cost me anything?<\/h2>\n
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Not sure which of these is costing you jobs?<\/h4>\n
What's different about switching agencies for HVAC companies<\/h2>\n
A worked example: a switch timed around a notice period<\/h2>\n
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<\/figure>\nFrequently asked questions<\/h2>\n
Can my old agency keep my Google Ads account?<\/h3>\n
Will switching agencies hurt my Google rankings?<\/h3>\n
Do my Google reviews move with me?<\/h3>\n
Should the new agency rebuild my website right away?<\/h3>\n
What if the old agency won't give me access?<\/h3>\n
Can I switch in the middle of my contract?<\/h3>\n
Key takeaways<\/h2>\n
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Want a second set of eyes on your setup?<\/h4>\n
More in this section<\/h2>\n
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