Press Release: HARLEY-DAVIDSON DEALERS RANKED FIRST FOR PROVIDING QUICK AND EASY SERVICE APPOINTMENTS
July 2023
Monterey, California – July 10, 2023 – Harley-Davidson was ranked first of 26 powersports brands by Pied Piper’s 2023 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 Harley-Davidson in the rankings were Polaris Off-Road, BMW and Indian Motorcycle. “Powersports customers soon decide ...
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DealerNews
INDIAN DEALERS RANKED HIGHEST IN WEBSITE RESPONSE
May 2023
Indian Motorcycle dealerships ranked highest in the 2023 Pied Piper PSI Internet Lead Effectiveness (ILE) Motorcycle/UTV Industry Study, which measured responsiveness to internet leads coming through dealership websites. Following Indian were Harley-Davidson, Polaris Inc's RZR dealers, BRP's Can-Am dealers, Kawasaki and Yamaha.
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Press Release: POLARIS INC'S INDIAN MOTORCYCLE DEALERS RANKED HIGHEST IN 2023 STUDY MEASURING RESPONSE TO WEBSITE CUSTOMERS
Powersports industry performance has improved substantially over the past five years, but there is now a large gap in customer treatment between top ranked brands and the others
April 2023
Monterey, California, USA – April 24, 2023 –Polaris Inc’s Indian Motorcycle dealerships ranked highest in the 2023 Pied Piper PSI® Internet Lead Effectiveness® (ILE®) Motorcycle/UTV Industry Study, which measured responsiveness to internet leads coming through dealership websites. Following Indian were Harley-Davidson, Polaris Inc’s Side-by-Side/UTV dealers, BRP’s Can-Am dealers, Kawasaki and Yamaha. The powersports industry has substantially ...
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Powersports Business
Motorcycle dealers respond to website leads as quickly as car dealers: Pied Piper internet lead study shows Harley-Davidson dealership are top responders
May 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 Indian motorcycles were ranked second, followed by Polaris side-by-side dealers. "Quick response to web customers is critical to selling, placing an order, or ...
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DealerNews
HARLEY-DAVIDSON, INDIAN & POLARIS DEALERS RANKED HIGHEST IN RESPONSE TO WEBSITE CUSTOMERS
May 2022
Post-pandemic inventory issues still make it a sellers market... but for how long? Many dealers have been developing bad habits in the lack of new units... why bother responding to an Internet lead when the lead time is going to be six months or longer, right? WRONG! "Quick response to web customers is critical to selling, placing an order, or building the foundation for future sales," explains Fran O'Hagan, CEO of Pied Piper. "Dealers who ...
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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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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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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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