FRIKINtech The Used Car Factory is real!

Alex Snyder

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I'll never forget the first time my green-pea'd self walked into the used car manager's office and said "hey boss, I've got a good one! They want us to get them a sedan with less than 30,000 miles for under $15,000." To which he replied: "does this look like a used car factory?" :lmao:

Later he said something about a Chinese Bank, but that's another story for another day.

Well boss, it looks like a FRIKIN used car factory now exists! Check out SERVICEiQ for the industry's first Equity Engagement Engine to entice the service customers to sell or trade their car.

A year ago, Rusty West of Market Scan introduced me to something they were working on called mDrive. He explained how they used an algebraic algorithm to plot the programs available on every car in such a way that down payments, credit tiers, general rebates, and the customer's equity could be applied to a dealership or dealer group's entire inventory. In essence, we could pencil thousands of cars in less than a second. Think about that: we can pencil every car in inventory for each customer. And it is pretty damn accurate.

This gave us the idea of super charging the personalization aspect of what we do by focusing the customer on their equity. A nice little WIIFM goes a long way!

So we teamed up with TradePending to hyper-focus the used car valuations on the dealer's local market. We want to be as accurate as possible and realized doing this with just the sales DMS database (like traditional equity mining tools do) wasn't going to cut it. The service ROs were key to getting the most accurate mileage and making sure we are hitting customers who are still driving that car.

As a side benefit on the service feed we picked up two things:
  1. cell phone numbers because that's the easiest way for service writers to get a hold of a customer fast
  2. massive conquesting capabilities because most service customers did not buy their car from that dealership
SERVICEiQ texts the customer an offer on the car they just serviced. The secret sauce is in how the customer's equity is determined, how we convert them into leads, how we give your sales team an unfair advantage, and the implementation of merging multiple Market Scan APIs into something a dealer can honor on the floor when the customer comes in.

Not bad timing amidst a new vehicle supply problem!

Learn more about FRIKINtech's SERVICEiQ Equity Engagement Engine.
 
Finally! We have been able to launch new stores SERVICEiQ since the Authenticom attack. When a new store comes on board we do a Service RO pull utilizing Authenticom. I have also been waiting to see what a small store can accomplish on this product. So far, we have been watching mind-blowing numbers from larger stores.

This is the email report for yesterday's activity at a small Dodge dealership with 5 new cars in stock:

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Our most engaged customer of the day was Craig and he jumped between two of the 5 new trucks they have in stock:

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What was cool about Craig is that he flipped from an 84 month loan to a 36 month lease (most recent viewed vehicles are on the left):

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Clearly, he's a payment shopper and a phone call to Craig could shake him loose. Craig was just a Service RO who probably wasn't considering a new truck until he got a text from SERVICEiQ yesterday.

I'm looking forward to hearing what this store has to say about the new leads they pulled from their service drive yesterday.
 
It IS real. Turned on Thursday morning around 10:30 a.m. Alerts started lighting up like a Christmas tree around 11. A customer jumped into the chat at 12. Came in at 4 and traded.

Sold another one today. Working a deal on a third that I think will happen tomorrow. Took in a 15 Canyon and a 15 F150. Third one is an 18 Camry.
 
It IS real. Turned on Thursday morning around 10:30 a.m. Alerts started lighting up like a Christmas tree around 11. A customer jumped into the chat at 12. Came in at 4 and traded.

Sold another one today. Working a deal on a third that I think will happen tomorrow. Took in a 15 Canyon and a 15 F150. Third one is an 18 Camry.

:banana: bananas! And :woot:

You're the first to get 3 deals (assumed third) in the first 24 hours… or the first to tell us. So awesome! So far, we have been told by most dealers on SERVICEiQ that they have sold at least one car on the first day.

Our board will soon be asking me if we are charging enough for this thing? :thinker::lol:
 
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