Press Release: SERRA AUTOMOTIVE RANKED FIRST IN 2024 DEALER GROUP STUDY FOR PROVIDING QUICK AND EASY SERVICE APPOINTMENTS
Most Improved: Napleton Automotive Group Improved Ranking from Last to Second with 14-point Gain Over 2023 Pied Piper Study Results
September 2024
Monterey, California – September 9, 2024 – Serra Automotive was ranked first out of 20 auto dealer groups in Pied Piper’s 2024 PSI® Service Telephone Effectiveness® (STE®) Study, which measured the efficiency and quality of service telephone calls from a customer’s objective of quickly and easily setting up a service appointment. Following Serra Automotive in the rankings were Napleton Automotive Group, Berkshire Hathaway Automotive and Group 1 ...
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Automotive News Daily Drive Podcast
Pied Piper CEO Fran O'Hagan discusses the 2024 Dealer Group Service Telephone Effectiveness(R) Study results with Automotive News
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August 2024
We in the auto industry have been fixated on measuring service customer satisfaction. We've measured it all kinds of ways for decades, but if truth be told what we really care about is loyalty, and we've been using customer satisfaction as a proxy to measure loyalty. If you think about it what we really care about is what customers do rather than what customers say. You may say you're satisfied but really what I'm interested in is are you going ...
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AUTOMOTIVE NEWS
Napleton Automotive tops new survey on Web lead response times
May 2024
When it comes to Web-related sales leads, Napleton Automotive Group developed a strategy to capture as many of them as possible. Napleton chose to centralize most of its business development center functions into two large offices. A facility in West Palm Beach, Fla., employs roughly 60 employees to handle Web leads from Napleton's dealerships in the Southeast, working essentially like a call center. About the same number work in Merrillville, ...
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Digital Dealer
Napleton Tops Study in Responding to Internet Leads
May 2024
For a third year in a row, the Napleton Auto Group dealerships topped in response to following internet leads. The 2024 Pied Piper PSI Internet Lead Effectiveness (ILE) Study measured responsiveness to internet leads coming though dealer websites among 18 of the largest auto dealer groups. Following Napleton were Berkshire Hathaway, Herb Chambers, Ken Garff, and Ken Ganley dealer groups. Dealer groups with the greatest improvement were Ganley, ...
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Auto Remarketing
Napleton again leads dealer groups in responding to internet leads
May 2024
Some things never change. One of those, it seems, is Napleton Auto Group’s position as the dealership group most responsive to internet leads. Pied Piper’s 2024 PSI Internet Lead Effectiveness Study, which measures responsiveness to internet leads coming though dealer websites, shows Napleton at the top of the list for the third consecutive year by a wide margin. Napleton, which operates more than 80 dealerships in seven states, posted an ...
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Wards Auto
Auto Dealer Trifecta: Email, Text, Phone Online Shoppers
May 2024
One of the most effective devices for selling vehicles was invented nearly 150 years ago. It’s the telephone. Sure, early phones were nothing like today’s multifunctional smartphones. But a dealership’s response to a digital sales lead should include phoning the customer. So says Fran O’Hagan, CEO of Pied Piper, a consultancy that uses mystery shopping to rank dealerships’ internet effectiveness, particularly the rapidity of responding to ...
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Press Release: NAPLETON AUTO GROUP RANKED HIGHEST IN 2024 AUTO INDUSTRY STUDY MEASURING RESPONSE TO WEBSITE CUSTOMERS
Eighteen Auto Dealer Groups Measured: Berkshire Hathaway ranked second, Herb Chambers and Ken Garff tied for third
May 2024
Monterey, California – May 6, 2024 – Napleton Auto Group dealerships were ranked highest out of eighteen of the largest auto dealer groups for the third year in a row according to the 2024 Pied Piper PSI® Internet Lead Effectiveness® (ILE®) Study, which measured responsiveness to internet leads coming though dealer websites. Following Napleton were Berkshire Hathaway, Herb Chambers, Ken Garff, and Ganley dealer groups. Pied Piper submitted ...
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