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HVAC Membership Programs: How to Build, Price, and Sell Service Agreements That Stick
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Rising Fuel Costs Are Squeezing Home Services Companies. Here's How to Fight Back.
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Turn Every Job Into a Revenue Multiplier: The Home Services Post-Job Automation Playbook
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How to Get More Google Reviews for Your Home Services Business
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The HVAC Technician Shortage: What Contractors Must Know in 2026
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AI in Reputation Management: Automating Review Insights for Smarter Decisions
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The Complete 2026 Guide to the R-410A Phase-Out for HVAC Contractors
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How to Get Techs to Actually Use Scorecards: A Change Management Playbook for Home Services HR Teams
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We Analyzed 18,000 Data Points From Home Services Companies. Here’s What Separates the Best From the Rest.
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Why Google Reviews Are Disappearing Across Home Services
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Why is Applause asking for my Social Security Number (SSN)?
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Introducing the Applause Top 10 Awards: Setting the standard for service excellence
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How to Improve Local SEO for HVAC Companies
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What Are Google’s Rules for Incentivizing Reviews?
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Employee Retention in Home Services: A How-To Guide
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Google Maps update: Hide your identity when writing reviews
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Home Services Companies: It's Time To Ditch the Old Growth Playbook
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Mergers & acquisitions in pest control: The complete guide
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How to improve technician performance with competitions
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The Fleet Savings Playbook for Services Companies
Research & Reports
The 2026 State of Home Services Benchmark Report
Research & Reports
The New Growth Guide for Home Services: Unlock Hidden Profit in Every Route
Research & Reports
How to actually change technician behavior with scorecards
Research & Reports
The Peak Season Playbook
Research & Reports
How Lookout Pest Achieved 100% Review Growth and Continuous NPS Improvement with Applause
Customer Stories
Back to Applause: Hydra Chooses Real Results after Competitors Promised Big and Underdelivered
Customer Stories
How Main Line Brands Drove 8,000+ New Reviews and Maintained a 95 NPS Across 529 Territories
Customer Stories
From pipes to praise: how Royal Plumbing achieved a 180% surge in Google reviews
Customer Stories
The Fleet Savings Playbook: How Service Companies Save $1M+
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Applause Q1 Product Updates
Webinar
Boosting Safety and Reducing Costs
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Selling Pest Control in the 21st Century
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Blog Articles

HVAC Membership Programs: How to Build, Price, and Sell Service Agreements That Stick

Learn HVAC maintenance plan best practices for building, pricing, and selling membership programs that drive recurring revenue and keep customers coming back.

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Rising Fuel Costs Are Squeezing Home Services Companies. Here's How to Fight Back.

Discover how home services companies are navigating rising fuel costs and inflation. This guide explores actionable strategies for fleet efficiency, reducing idling, and leveraging telematics data to lower insurance premiums and protect profit margins.

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Turn Every Job Into a Revenue Multiplier: The Home Services Post-Job Automation Playbook

Post-job automation is how top home services companies turn one completed service call into reviews, referrals, repeat bookings, and upsell revenue. This playbook breaks down the five-stage workflow you can build to maximize revenue per customer.

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Webinars

Applause Q1 Product Updates

Get the most out of Applause. In this on-demand webinar, you'll learn more about brand new updates and how to apply them. Create better scorecards, enable referral payouts, and use new review features to stay on top of customer feedback.

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The Fleet Savings Playbook: How Service Companies Save $1M+

In this webinar, experts from Applause, Truce, and Coast break down how leading service companies are uncovering hidden costs and implementing proven strategies to save $100K to $1M+ per year.

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Boosting Safety and Reducing Costs

In this on-demand webinar, Applause, Azuga, and Anthem Pest Control share practical strategies from Anthem Pest Control, Applause, and Azuga on improving driver safety, increasing visibility into technician performance, and reducing insurance-related risk.

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Research & Ebooks

Electrical
HVAC
Lawn Care
Performance Incentives
Pest Control

The Fleet Savings Playbook for Services Companies

Your fleet is bleeding money on fuel, accidents, insurance, and fraud. This data-driven guide from Applause, Coast, Linxup, Truce, and Rancho Mesa breaks down exactly where the waste is and how services companies are saving $100K to $1M+ per year with the right stack of tools and strategies.

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HVAC
Technician scorecards
Electrical
Pest Control
Lawn Care

The 2026 State of Home Services Benchmark Report

The 2026 State of Home Services Benchmark Report analyzes more than 18,000 real performance data points across 3,000 home services companies to show what great technician performance actually looks like today across productivity, quality, reviews, compensation, and motivation.

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HVAC
Electrical
Lawn Care
Plumbing
Technician scorecards

The New Growth Guide for Home Services: Unlock Hidden Profit in Every Route

The new growth model in home services is service-led growth (SLG), a framework designed to help businesses grow quickly and cost-efficiently by getting the most out of their technicians.

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Customer Stories

Pest Control
Technician scorecards

Anthem Pest Control Reduces At-Fault Incidents 70% with Applause Scorecards

Applause helps Anthem automate reporting and bring visibility to performance.

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Technician scorecards
Employee engagement
Performance Incentives
Retention

CK Pools Boosts Reviews by 3.5x and Cuts Manual Reporting with Applause

CK Pools eliminated manual reporting, boosted reviews, and gained real-time visibility into technician performance with Applause.

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NPS & CSAT
5-star reviews
Pest Control
Lawn Care
HVAC

How Lookout Pest Achieved 100% Review Growth and Continuous NPS Improvement with Applause

Strengthening CSR Consistency, Increasing 5-star Reviews, and Driving 30% More Organic Leads

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