Rural Lifestyle Dealer
Kubota Dealers Ranked Highest in 2025 Pied Piper Internet Lead Effectiveness Study
February 2025
Kubota dealerships ranked highest in the 2025 Pied Piper PSI Internet Lead Effectiveness (ILE) Compact Tractor Industry Study, which measured responsiveness to internet sales leads coming through dealership websites. Following Kubota were Kioti, TYM, Mahindra and John Deere. Pied Piper submitted customer inquiries through the websites of 726 compact tractor dealerships representing all major brands. Each inquiry asked a specific question about ...
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OPE Magazine
Pied Piper releases annual Internet Lead Effectiveness study results
February 2025
Kubota dealerships ranked highest in the 2025 Pied Piper PSI Internet Lead Effectiveness (ILE) Compact Tractor Industry Study, which measured responsiveness to internet sales leads coming through dealership websites. Following Kubota were Kioti, TYM, Mahindra and John Deere. Pied Piper submitted customer inquiries through the websites of 726 compact tractor dealerships representing all major brands. Each inquiry asked a specific question about a ...
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Press Release: KUBOTA DEALERS RANKED HIGHEST IN 2025 COMPACT TRACTOR INDUSTRY STUDY MEASURING RESPONSE TO WEBSITE CUSTOMERS
Room to Improve: 4 out of 10 online inquiries received no personal response
Industry average performance unchanged since last year, but top-ranked Kubota dealer performance increased substantially
February 2025
Monterey, California, USA – February 3, 2025 – Kubota dealerships ranked highest in the 2025 Pied Piper PSI® Internet Lead Effectiveness® (ILE®) Compact Tractor Industry Study, which measured responsiveness to internet sales leads coming through dealership websites. Following Kubota were Kioti, TYM, Mahindra and John Deere. Pied Piper submitted customer inquiries through the websites of 726 compact tractor dealerships representing all major ...
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Powersports Business
Sea-Doo dealers rank highest in 2024 Boat Industry Study
October 2024
Telephone Lead Effectiveness (TLE) measures what happens when a sales customer interested in purchasing a product phones a dealership. How effectively does the dealership answer the call, provide the help the customer desires, and encourage the customer to visit the dealership and become a buyer? To complete the study, Pied Piper anonymously phoned 802 dealerships between March 2024 and September 2024 at locations representing the seventeen ...
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Boating Industry
Sea-Doo dealers rank highest in 2024 Pied Piper study
October 2024
BRP Inc’s Sea-Doo dealerships were ranked highest according to the 2024 Pied Piper PSI Telephone Lead Effectiveness (TLE) Study, which measured responsiveness to sales customers who phoned boat dealerships interested in purchasing a pontoon boat. Following Sea-Doo were dealerships selling Polaris Inc’s Bennington, Avalon & Tahoe Manufacturing’s Avalon, and Brunswick Corporation’s Harris. For more than fifteen years Pied Piper has provided ...
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Press Release: BRP'S SEA-DOO DEALERS RANKED HIGHEST IN 2024 BOAT INDUSTRY STUDY MEASURING RESPONSE TO SALES CUSTOMER CALLS
Boat industry's first measurement & ranking by Pied Piper's Telephone Lead EffectivenessTM
October 2024
Monterey, California – October 28, 2024 – BRP Inc’s Sea-Doo dealerships were ranked highest according to the 2024 Pied Piper PSI® Telephone Lead Effectiveness™ (TLE™) Study, which measured responsiveness to sales customers who phoned boat dealerships interested in purchasing a pontoon boat. Following Sea-Doo were dealerships selling Polaris Inc’s Bennington, Avalon & Tahoe Manufacturing’s Avalon, and Brunswick Corporation’s Harris. ...
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Motorcycle & Powersports News
Triumph Motorcycle Dealers Rank 1st for Easy Appointments
June 2024
Triumph was ranked first of 27 powersports brands in Pied Piper's 2024 PSIService 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 the Triumph dealers in the rankings were dealers who service Harley-Davidson's electric Livewire brand, BMW, Aprilia and Polaris Off-Road. "Well-run service ...
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DEALERNEWS
Speaking of Techs, Pied Piper points out that your customers are still on hold!
June 2024
"Well-run service departments focus on increasing customer loyalty, and the first service experience to drive that loyalty is a customer's phone call to schedule an appointment," notes Pied Piper CEO Fran O'Hagan, as a preface to the 2024 Service Telephone Effectiveness (STE) study. He points out powersports is failing — miserably — at picking up the phone. "Industrywide, 1 in 7 customers failed in their attempt to schedule a service appointment ...
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Powersports Business
Study: Triumph dealers ranked No.1 for providing service appointments
June 2024
Triumph Motorcycles was ranked first of 27 powersports brands in Pied Piper’s 2024 PSI Service Telephone Effectiveness (STE) Study. The study measured the efficiency and quality of service telephone calls based on a customer’s objective of quickly and easily setting up a service appointment. Following the Triumph dealers in the rankings were dealers who service Harley-Davidson’s electric Livewire brand, BMW, Aprilia, and Polaris Off-Road. ...
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Press Release: TRIUMPH MOTORCYCLE DEALERS RANKED FIRST FOR PROVIDING QUICK AND EASY SERVICE APPOINTMENTS
Industrywide 1 in 7 Powersports Customers Failed in their Attempt to Schedule Service
June 2024
Monterey, California – June 3, 2024 – Triumph was ranked first of 27 powersports brands 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 the Triumph dealers in the rankings were dealers who service Harley-Davidson’s electric Livewire brand, BMW, Aprilia and ...
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