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Answering the Call for Service - Pied Piper study shows quick telephone engagement boosts loyalty
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September 2024
Each of Napleton Automotive Group’s 50 dealerships has a unique number to schedule a service appointment. Last year, it began routing those calls through its centralized business development center (BDC). Technology alerts the BDC specialist to which store the customer is trying to reach but any specialist can answer a call for any store, creating a seamless customer experience. It had another important result, as well. “It reduced the time to ... Read More >
Used Car News
Pied Piper Ranks Dealer Service Telephone Effectiveness
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September 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 Automotive. “Successful service departments ... Read More >
Auto Remarketing
Serra, Napleton take giant steps forward in responses to service appointment calls
September 2024
The results of Pied Piper’s 2024 PSI Service Telephone Effectiveness Study bear little resemblance to those of last year. At the top of the new list, which ranked 20 dealer groups by their efficiency and quality of service telephone calls in quickly and easily setting up a service appointment from the customer’s perspective, is Serra Automotive, with an STE score of 68 on a 100-point scale. In the 2023 study, Serra ranked in the middle of the ... Read More >
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 ... Read More >
