Press Release: HARLEY-DAVIDSON, INDIAN, AND POLARIS DEALERS RANKED HIGHEST IN 2022 STUDY MEASURING RESPONSE TO WEBSITE CUSTOMERS
Despite inventory shortages and COVID-19, dealers who responded quickly by email, phone, and text showed markedly stronger sales to web customers
April 2022
Monterey, California, USA – April 18, 2022 – Harley-Davidson dealerships ranked highest in the 2022 Pied Piper PSI® Internet Lead Effectiveness® (ILE®) Motorcycle/UTV Industry Study, which measured responsiveness to Internet leads coming through dealership websites – behaviors tied directly to retail sales success. Dealers selling Polaris Inc’s Indian motorcycles were ranked second, followed by Polaris Side-by-Side/UTV dealers. “Quick response ...
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Powersports Business
Polaris UTV Dealers Top Pied Piper's Latest Study
October 2021
September 2021 Polaris Side-By-Side/UTV dealers led the way in a recent Prospect Satisfaction Index study conducted by California-based Piep Piper, outscoring 16 other brands. BRP's Can-Am dealers finshed second, with John Deere third and Yamaha fourth as the only other brand that finished above the "Industry Average." For the first time, the study was "Omnichannel," meaning it took into account the results of people who first shopped for a ...
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Dealernews
2021 OMNICHANNEL PSI RESULTS
October 2021
October 2021 – Issue 2.0 #9 “What happens when motorcycle or UTV customers visit a dealer website and inquire about a vehicle,” asks O’Hagan. The short answer to that question is “nothing” for 6 out of 10 incoming queries. The longer answer to that there is a lot of variation by brand… Top brands in the new PSI study performed well, while others – including some of the largest brands – have failed to improve over the past few years. This despite ...
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Dealernews
Robin Hartfiel Editor's Note: The Omnichannel… You will be assimilated!
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October 2021
October 2021 – Issue 2.0 #9 …like the Borg on Star Trek, you will be assimilated or you will die… at least that is the message in the new Pied Piper PSI Study. Founder Fran O’Hagan modified his annual survey to address the omnichannel this go round. While the findings are fascinating, the truly frightening thing Pied Piper unearthed was the fact that 6 out of 10 direct requests for UTVs (the hottest selling segment in the world confirmed by ...
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Press Release: POLARIS UTV/SIDE-BY-SIDE DEALERS RANKED HIGHEST BY 2021 PIED PIPER PROSPECT SATISFACTION INDEX(R) (PSI(R))
2021 Omnichannel PSI(R) for UTVs Industry Study measured sales effectiveness throughout each brand's customer shopping path, from brand website, to dealer website, to dealership in-person
September 2021
Monterey, California – September 20, 2021 – Polaris ranked highest in the 2021 “Omnichannel PSI for UTVs” Industry Study, which for the first time included omnichannel website shopping measurements in addition to calculating effectiveness selling in-person. The study answered the question, “What happens when UTV customers shop for a vehicle by first visiting the brand’s website, or a dealership website, and then visiting a dealership in person?” ...
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Revzilla
Study: Which motorcycle dealerships actually respond to customers?
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May 2021
What happens when motorcycle or UTV customers visit a dealer website and inquire about a vehicle? How does the dealership respond to the customer, and which brands have the best responses? That's exactly what Pied Piper Management Company, a retail performance evaluator, set out to find when they sent "mystery shoppers" to inquire about vehicles for sale at 6,407 powersports dealerships across the United States. Their Internet Lead Effectiveness ...
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Dealernews
Pied Piper pulls no punches with its annual industry report card.
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May 2021
The 2021 PSI Internet Lead Effectiveness MC/UTV Industry Study (USA) was released today and the results will rankle some... truth hurts, at least for some, according to Pied Piper founder Fran O'Hagan. "We are not here to sway public opinion, PSI is intended to answer the question: ‘What happens when motorcycle or UTV customers visit a dealer website and inquire about a vehicle?' "The answer to that question is that there is a lot of variation ...
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Motorcycle Product News
PIED PIPER PSI: HARLEY-DAVIDSON DEALERSHIPS RANKED NO. 1 IN 2021 FOR RESPONDING TO WEBSITE CUSTOMERS
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May 2021
Response to customer web inquiries varied by brand and dealership, and the following are examples of performance variation by brand: Harley-Davidson, BMW, Indian, Polaris, Club Car, HiSun and CFMoto dealers on average sent an email or text that answered the customer’s question within one hour 30% of the time or more. Kawasaki, Kubota, Honda, Caterpillar, Kymco, Bobcat, Yamaha, and Tracker dealers on average emailed or texted an answer within one ...
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Rural Lifestyle Dealer
Pied Piper Releases 2021 PSI Internet Lead Effectiveness Study Results
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May 2021
To complete the 2021 ILE study, Pied Piper submitted customer inquiries through the individual websites of 6,407 dealerships between July 2020 and March 2021, asking a question about a vehicle in inventory, and providing a customer name, email address and local telephone number. Pied Piper then evaluated how the dealerships responded by email, telephone and text message over the next 24 hours. Twenty different measurements generate dealership ILE ...
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Powersports Business
Dealership website lead study released: Pied Piper PSI study
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May 2021
Harley-Davidson dealerships have ranked highest in the recently released 2021 Pied Piper PSI Internet Lead Effectiveness (ILE) Motorcycle/UTV Industry Study, which answers the question, "What happens when motorcycle or UTV customers visit a dealer website and inquire about a vehicle?" The Indian motorcycle brand was ranked second, followed by BMW and Polaris. Dealers for top brands improved their website response behaviors dramatically over the ...
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