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Personalized Quality Customer Management
(PQCM)
Retention:
The Only Thing In A New Economy
In today's
competitive business world, customers are the most precious assets
a dealership has. Retaining customers has proven rewards and personalization/
one-to-one marketing is an excellent way to keep customers happy.
Dealerships
that use personalization techniques well can see a 25% to 40% increase
in revenues and a doubled or tripled response rate to their promotions,
as well as increased transaction sizes.
The dealership
that learns how to use and get the most value out of customer information
systems will be able to acquire the most customers at the lowest
cost and retain the most customers with higher profits. They will
be the winners in the new economy.
To assist dealerships
in approaching this "new economy", Business Information Systems,
Inc. has developed Personalized Quality Customer Management (PQCM).
PQCM is a customer
relationship management (CRM) application designed exclusively for
Ford Motor Company dealers. PQCM incorporates a state of the art
CRM application and Ford Motor Company's "Around the Wheel" (AtW)
marketing initiative. It truly is one of the best customer information
systems designed for dealerships on the market today.
As a Ford Motor
Company "Around the Wheel" (AtW) approved provider, PQCM is designed
to improve customer satisfaction by keeping in continual contact
with your customer throughout their vehicle ownership, alerting
them of such items as regular maintenance visits, missed service
appointments and projected brake and tire wear. Customer contact
is done through an assortment of cost-effective methods such as
direct mail, e-mail and phone. Each of these methods is customized
to your specific dealership. With this improved personalized customer
contact, your service department will notice increase service retention
and service department revenues.
In addition
to the standard letters required for the "Around the Wheel" (AtW)
program, PQCM can provide to your new and used vehicle sales customers
a personalized maintenance book. This maintenance book is based
upon your customers' specific driving habits and can include promotional
items, general dealership information and emergency roadside assistance
information.
At the heart
of PQCM is the customer information system. This system is designed
to keep track of the frequency and types of interactions a customer
has with the dealership.
In order to
minimize user input of this information, PQCM works in combination
with UCS, ADP and Reynolds and Reynolds by allowing the downloading
of your existing customer history, vehicle inventory and repair
order information.
For the additional
customer information that can not be captured from your current
in-house system, PQCM allows for the collection of this information
through a variety of methods. The dealership can enter customer
concerns, scan in repair orders, obtain exit surveys from kiosks
located at the dealership and enter factory survey responses and
general customer information. With this in-depth collection of information,
dealerships can identify key areas within their customer management
policies that might need improvement.
How
PQCM works
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