KUKUI: Auto Shop Customer Acquisition & Followup [WEBINAR]

KUKUI Administrator • February 3, 2020

In this Shop Owner Success Webinar™, Jimmy Lea will be joined by Scott Thorley and Greg Waters to address the Shop’s ultimate dilemma: “How can I keep my Bays full all of the time?”


In this presentation, Greg Waters from Kukui will address how the integration of Protractor and Kukui will allow you to track all of your marketing spend to actual revenue from each source. You learn how to know with certainty where your marketing dollars are best spent to make the phone ring! 


Utilizing Your Protractor data, the Kukui dashboard puts  Key Performance Metrics right at your fingertips so you can make business improvements to best increase your revenue. 


Oil Change reminders, State Inspection, etc. are based on your Protractor data and can be sent on intervals you determine to bring customers back when you want.   Increase your Google Rating using a simple Text request to obtain more Google Reviews- all automatically using Protractor data and Kukui algorithms. We’ll help you understand this new method of “Word of Mouth Marketing”.


Utilizing Your Protractor data, the Kukui dashboard puts  Key Performance Metrics right at your fingertips so you can make business improvements to best increase your revenue. 



Oil Change reminders, State Inspection, etc. are based on your Protractor data and can be sent on intervals you determine to bring customers back when you want.   Increase your Google Rating using a simple Text request to obtain more Google Reviews- all automatically using Protractor data and Kukui algorithms. We’ll help you understand this new method of “Word of Mouth Marketing”.


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