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The industry’s average functionality has improved thanks to increased use of SMS and faster reaction to phone calls.
MONTEREY, Calif. , March 4, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Infiniti dealers ranked number one in the 2024 Piper Foot PSI® Internet Lead Effectiveness® (ILE) ® study, which measured the responsiveness of consumers arriving through the dealership to leads. Following Infiniti were Volkswagen, Cadillac, Subaru and Polestar.
Pied Piper sent mystery shopper requests through the individual Internet sites of 3,957 dealerships, making an express inquiry about a vehicle in stock and offering the customer’s name, email address, and local telephone number. Pied Piper then assessed how dealerships responded to email, phone, and text over the next 24 hours.
ILE tests combine more than twenty other metrics to generate a score ranging from 0 to 100. In this year’s study, 34% of car dealers scored above 80 (providing a quick and thorough private response), while 21% scored below 40 (not responding to their customers).
The brands with the biggest innovations are Dodge, Genesis, Honda, Kia and Infiniti, all of which have improved their scores in more than six editions since last year’s study. The functionality of seven brands declined: Chevrolet, Acura, Hyundai, Jaguar, Cadillac, Fiat, and Rivian. The industry’s average functionality climbed 4 points to a score of 62, the average score measured in the 41 years Pied Piper has tracked dealerships’ reaction to visitor inquiries on the website.
This year, distributors were more likely to respond to online visitor inquiries via phone calls or text messages than in previous years. Not all metrics improved from last year, adding the reaction rate to an Internet customer’s questions via email, which remained strong compared to last year. However, the quality of the emails sent has improved year after year. In their emails, distributors were more likely to try to schedule an appointment, provide more information, or recommend next steps. In addition, compared to last year’s measures, distributors were more likely this year to communicate with their consumers via email and phone, or text and phone messages. the same path selected through the visitor,” said Fran O’Hagan, CEO of Pied Piper, “otherwise, many consumers miss out on it as they don’t see emails or text messages, or answer phone calls. “
Infiniti, the best-performing automotive logo this year, improved its ILE score through seven editions last year to achieve the highest average ILE score for an automotive logo measured to date, with a score of 76. Compared to last year, Infiniti reflected similar improvements, seen on an industry-wide scale, but with wider margins for improvement and higher overall rates of execution of positive behaviors. The most important improvement has been the increase in the rate of telephone response to customers, which Infiniti dealers are building. It increased from an average of 50% of the time last year to 82% of the time this year.
Responding to visitors’ inquiries on the internet through the logo and dealership, and here are examples of functionality variation through the logo:
How have the brand’s distributors sent an email reaction to a customer’s inquiry from a website?
More than 65% of the time on average: Polestar, Infiniti, Porsche
Less than 45% of the time on average: Buick, Ford, Tesla, Lucid
How have the brand’s distributors sent a text reaction to a customer’s inquiry from a website?
More than 40% of the time on average: Volkswagen, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, Alpha Romeo, Jeep, Nissan, Ram
Less than 10% of the time on average: Tesla, Polestar, Fiat, Lucid, Rivian
How have the brand’s dealers responded by phone to a customer’s request from a website?
More than 75% of the time on average: Infiniti, Genesis, Ford, Honda, Subaru
Less than 50% of the time on average: Tesla, Fiat, Lucid, Rivian
“They did both”: How did the brand’s distributors respond via email or text message to a customer’s inquiry from an online page and also respond via a phone call?
More than 60% of the time on average: Infiniti, Volkswagen, Volvo
Less than 35% of the time on average: Mitsubishi, Fiat, Tesla, Lucid, Rivian
“2024 is a more challenging business environment for car dealerships,” O’Hagan said, “and many have responded by improving their interaction with consumers online. “Pied Piper has found that the key to achieving better reaction on online pages and, as a result, expanding sales, is to show distributors what consumers are actually experiencing on their online page, which is a surprise.
The Foot Piper PSI® Internet Lead Effectiveness® (ILE) ® studies have been conducted annually since 2011. The Pied Piper PSI® ILE® 2024 Automotive Industry Study conducted between October 2023 and January 2024 by submitting queries on a non-public online page directly to a sample of 3,957 people. National dealerships representing all major car brands.
About Pied Piper Management Company, LLC
Founded in 2003, Pied Piper Management Company, LLC is a Monterey, California-based company that helps brands improve their retailers’ omnichannel sales and service functionality by building more productive, fact-based practices and then measuring and reporting on functionality. The studies conducted through Pied Piper PSI are the 2023 Foot Piper PSI® ILE® Automotive Dealer Group Sector Study (Napleton Auto Group ranked first) and the 2023 Foot Piper Service Teletelephone Effectiveness® (STE) Automotive Automotive Group Sector Study (Group® 1 Automotive) was ranked first). The full effects of Piper’s PSI® Industrial Foot Study are provided to automakers and national broker groups. Manufacturers, national runner groups, and individual runners also order PSI® testing, in person, over the internet, or over the phone. – as a team to measure the efficiency of your brokers’ omnichannel sales and service. For more data on Pied Piper’s Lead Satisfaction Index and fact-based PSI® process, visit www. piedpiperpsi. com.
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