Human beings are creatures of habit. Once they find a routine or a methodology that works for them, they hold onto it with grim determination. Even if a better, more efficient way presents itself, they still cling tightly to the familiar.

That being the case, it should come as no surprise that service technicians will often resist when inspection videos are integrated into the shop. They’ll find any number of reasons why they can’t or shouldn’t be doing an inspection video with each RO. Their most common refrain will likely be some version of this:

“I don’t get paid to take videos!”

The word is out: Using video and texting in your service department is a consistent, reliable driver of approvals on recommended work and the increased revenue that comes with it. Oh, and customers love it.

With the majority of franchise dealers in the US now leveraging inspection videos and advisor-to-customer texting to create a better, more efficient mode of communication with their customers, many quickly find themselves in phase two: maximizing tech utilization, view rates, and video/texting quality.

This is where dealers—who have switched platforms at least once—have gained a key understanding about video/texting software. It’s not all created equally.

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