{"version":"1.0.0","episode":{"title":"Fixed Ops Friday w/ Love, Golightley, & Carlstedt | Daily Dealer Live","url":"http://getcarcurious.com/episodes/fixed-ops-friday-w-love-golightley-carlstedt-daily-dealer-live","audioUrl":"https://chrt.fm/track/C6AG88/traffic.megaphone.fm/CREUR5008521970.mp3","description":"Today's show features:  \n\n\n\n- Joel Love, Service Director at Toyota of Montgomery\n\n\n\n- Liam Golightley, SVP Dealer Success at Podium\n\n\n\n- Ryan Carlstedt, EVP Fixed Ops at Willis Auto Group\n\n\n\nThis episode is brought to you by:\n\n\n\nExperian – Experian Automotive helps marketers identify and engage high-value auto shoppers, strengthen customer loyalty, grow service revenue, and activate 1,100+ automotive audiences across 30+ advertising platforms. 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If the message doesn’t reach them, they can’t watch it and approve repairs."}},{"id":416322,"startTime":665.0,"endTime":676.7,"type":"term","title":"open rates","url":"/glossary/open-rates","quote":"and and what percent deliver rate on RO's are you getting MPI's created and then what is the percent open rate look like from the customer... we're at 88.7% on deliver rate and we're 63% on open rates sick okay how do you explain that difference","canonicalId":"term:open-rates","priority":0.7,"confidence":0.86,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Open rate is the percentage of delivered messages that customers actually open/view. In video MPI campaigns, open rate is a strong indicator of engagement and is often linked to higher approval rates for recommended work.","simplifiedExplanation":"Open rate means how many people who received the message actually clicked or opened it. 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It’s part of the story about why the dealership’s situation changed recently."}},{"id":416327,"startTime":782.2,"endTime":794.9,"type":"term","title":"approval rate","url":"/glossary/approval-rate","quote":"when a customer watches their vehicle inspection on video how does that change the conversation at write up... we are at a 78% approval rate on video MPI versus what without without we are at a 32% approval rate","canonicalId":"term:approval-rate","priority":0.7,"confidence":0.9,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Approval rate is the percentage of recommended work that customers agree to authorize. Here, the host compares approval rates when customers watch the video MPI versus when they don’t, showing video MPI’s impact on decision-making.","simplifiedExplanation":"Approval rate is how often customers say “yes” to the recommended repairs. 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