May 18, 2023 | Data Mining, Equity Mining, Marketing, Service Drive
The average age of vehicles on American roads passed 12.5 years old this month. This time last year, cars were 12.2 years old on average. There are now 122 million vehicles older than ten years cruising around. This is due to tight new car supply and inflation in new...
May 9, 2023 | Data Mining, Equity Mining, Marketing, Service Drive
It is amazing what customers will do when they know something exists. It is also amazing how much dealers assume because we live the car life daily. Customers don’t know you buy cars. And you think every customer knows you will buy cars off the...
Feb 9, 2023 | Data Mining, Equity Mining, Marketing, Service Drive
If you were ever wondering how people respond to automated offers to buy/trade their car, we can now say only 1% respond outside of the directions. The biggest thing they do is misspell. After that, curiosity gets the better of these cats as they ask to...
Feb 1, 2023 | Data Mining, Equity Mining, FRIKINtech, Service Drive
Alex Snyder & Tom Harsha accepting the 2023 AWA Award for Sales Process in SERVICEiQ SERVICEiQ automates offers to customers who just had service done on their car to trade or sell that vehicle to the dealership. Unlike other data and equity mining solutions, no...
Jan 18, 2023 | Data Mining, Equity Mining, FRIKINtech, Marketing, Service Drive
We brought SERVICEiQ (sends equity offers to service customers daily) to market in late Q4 of 2021, so 2022 was the year for it to ramp. EQUITYiQ (sends equity offers to previously sold customers daily) launched in Q4 of 2022 and is beginning to ramp now. Both...
Nov 1, 2022 | Data Mining, Equity Mining, Marketing, Service Drive
Equity mining has relied on mail to kick off the process and finish it with a sales agent calling the customer. So many dealers have tried an equity mining solution with little consistent success because of these two failure points. The automotive industry has been...
