Powersports Business
Study: Indian Motorcycle dealers ranked highest in response to website customers
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April 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.
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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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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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