OEMs: Don’t Let One Bad Experience Define Your Reputation.
When OEMs allow dealers or distributors to take the lead on service, they risk losing visibility over the most critical brand touchpoint: after-sales care. One poor technician visit can erase years of goodwill and instantly tarnish your brand loyalty.
Here’s why owning your service delivery matters more than ever:
- Consistent Brand Experience: Third parties might not uphold the same standards or values that you’ve meticulously built. By overseeing service delivery, you ensure the quality, consistency, and alignment with your brand promise.
- Direct Customer Relationships: When dealers act as the middleman, you lose a vital feedback loop. Handling service directly means real-time insights into pain points and opportunities—empowering faster improvements.
- Predictive & Preventive Advantage: Leveraging OEM-driven IoT and analytics solutions can preempt costly breakdowns. In-house oversight ensures proactive maintenance schedules and data-informed solutions.
- Faster Innovation: Real-world service insights spark product and process improvements. OEMs can pivot and innovate more rapidly when they’re closer to the action.
Bottom Line: You can’t build loyalty through service delivery alone, but you can absolutely destroy it with a single bad experience—especially when you’re not in the driver’s seat. If your customers believe you’re delivering top-tier installations, repairs, and maintenance, you must back that promise with an equally committed service infrastructure.
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