Outdoor Power Equipment Business
Compact Tractor Dealers Ignore Two-Thirds of Potential Website Customers: Pied Piper Study
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February 2022
Dealers selling CNH’s New Holland compact tractors ranked highest in responsiveness to Internet leads from dealership websites, according to the 2022 Pied Piper PSI Internet Lead Effectiveness (ILE) survey released today. Agco’s Massey Ferguson brand and Mahindra were tied for second, followed by John Deere and Kubota. However, even among the top brands, the overall responsiveness of the compact tractor industry to customer queries to dealer ...
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Rural Lifestyle Dealer
Compact Tractor Dealers Ignore Two-Thirds of Potential Website Customers
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February 2022
Dealers selling CNH's New Holland compact tractors ranked highest in responsiveness to Internet leads from dealership websites, according to the 2022 Pied Piper PSI Internet Lead Effectiveness (ILE) survey released today. AGCO's Massey Ferguson brand and Mahindra were tied for second, followed by John Deere and Kubota. However, even among the top brands, the overall responsiveness of the compact tractor industry to customer queries to dealer ...
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Press Release: COMPACT TRACTOR DEALERS IGNORE TWO-THIRDS OF THEIR POTENTIAL WEBSITE CUSTOMERS, INDUSTRY SURVEY SHOWS
Dealers selling CNH's New Holland compact tractors ranked highest in Pied Piper study
February 2022
Monterey, California, USA –February 7, 2022 – Dealers selling CNH’s New Holland compact tractors ranked highest in responsiveness to Internet leads from dealership websites, according to the 2022 Pied Piper PSI® Internet Lead Effectiveness® (ILE®) survey released today. AGCO’s Massey Ferguson brand and Mahindra were tied for second, followed by John Deere and Kubota. However, even among the top brands, the overall responsiveness of the compact ...
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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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Wards Auto
Chrysler Tops at Connecting EVs With Customers - The Pied Piper study looked at how well automakers and dealers do at promoting electric vehicles and at handling customers interested in them.
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July 2021
Chrysler tops a new study's ranking of how well vehicle brands feature their electrified vehicles online and how well dealerships field EV customer inquiries, both digitally and in-store. Chrysler's high score is ironic for a couple of reasons. First, although Chrysler is a venerable nameplate, it seldom tops auto industry rankings. Second, the brand only offers one electrified product: the Pacifica plug-in hybrid minivan. Now a Stellantis ...
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Press Release: ELECTRIC VEHICLE CAR-SHOPPING EXPERIENCE VARIES BY BRAND: PIED PIPER “OMNICHANNEL PSI(R) FOR EVs” REPORTS CHRYSLER BRAND RANKED #1, FOLLOWED BY BMW AND MINI
Most auto buyers first shop online, then visit a dealership. The 2021 Pied Piper Omnichannel PSI(R) for EVs Auto Industry Study measured effectiveness throughout each brand's customer path, from brand website, to dealer website, to dealership in-person
July 2021
Monterey, California – July 12, 2021 – Stellantis NV’s Chrysler brand ranked highest in the 2021 Pied Piper Omnichannel PSI® for Electric Vehicles (EVs) Auto Industry Study, which answered the question, “What happens when EV customers shop for a vehicle by first visiting the brand’s website, or a dealership website, and then visiting a dealership in person?” BMW was ranked second of the twenty-one battery electric or plug-in hybrid EV brands ...
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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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