Fixed Ops Marketing & Retention

Declined Repairs.

Your service department is leaking revenue you already paid to earn.

Declined repairs, lost customers and open recalls are sitting in your DMS right now. Dealerwing validates that data, acts on it across every channel, and shows you the repair orders it produced.

Dealerwing dealership overview dashboard with validation, customer and budget metrics

38:1

Return on ad spend — Zeigler mobile service campaign

“Dealerwing found revenue in our own DMS that we had written off. The reporting is the part my GM actually trusts.”
— Fixed Ops Director, Midwest dealer group
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NADA 2027 · Orlando · Booth 2957

Meet Dealerwing at NADA 2027

Dealerwing will be at NADA 2027 in Orlando at Booth 2957.

Stop by to see how Dealerwing helps franchised auto dealers clean, validate, analyze, and activate customer data to drive smarter fixed ops marketing, stronger service retention, AI-driven targeting, recall outreach, declined service recovery, and more measurable campaign performance.

If your dealership is investing in AI, service marketing, customer retention, or database-driven campaigns, the first question is simple: Is your data clean enough to trust?

Dealerwing helps dealers answer that question and turn hidden opportunities inside the database into real marketing opportunities.

While you are there, be sure to pick up your pass to the Dealerwing NADA Party, expected to be one of the biggest events during the show.

Dealerwing Booth 2957 at the NADA Show 2027 in Orlando, Wednesday through Saturday, February 17-20

Countdown to NADA 2027 — Orlando, Feb 17–20, 2027

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The leak

Three places fixed ops revenue disappears

None of these are marketing problems first. They are data and follow-up problems that marketing then amplifies — in the wrong direction.

Service technician holding wrenches in a service bay — declined repairs that walk out the door

1 in 3

Recommended repairs walk out the door

Declined-service lines sit in your DMS with the customer already told the vehicle needs the work. Almost no store follows up systematically.

Sales advisor and customer in a dealership showroom — service retention begins with the customer experience

< 30%

Service customers still with you by year three

Retention leaks quietly after the free-maintenance period ends. By the time it shows in the numbers, the customer is servicing elsewhere.

Hand interacting with a tablet showing connected vehicle data icons — locating recall customers with correct contact information

Millions

Open recalls with no reachable contact data

Bad phone numbers and stale addresses turn a safety obligation and a full service lane into an unread letter.

CruiseCTRL AI

How Dealerwing fixes it

CruiseCTRLAI, pointed at data that is actually right

AI does not fix a broken customer database — it repeats its mistakes faster. We validate first, then let CruiseCTRLAI decide who to reach, when, and with what.

Dealerwing validation overview and dealership market map
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Validate the data

DMS, OEM and third-party records resolved into one accurate customer and vehicle picture, with reachability scored.

See every record flagged, fixed or suppressed — and the budget you saved by not mailing bad data.

Dealerwing campaign builder, market heat map and service specials direct mail piece
2

Execute omnichannel

CruiseCTRL AI builds and times each audience, then runs mail, email, SMS, voice and digital as one cadence.

Choose a Balanced, Retention, Reach or Traffic campaign, see the audience and cost up front, and launch across every channel.

Dealerwing RO-level campaign reporting dashboard
3

Prove it in ROs

Every response is matched back to closed repair orders with control-group reporting you can hand to your controller.

Customer pay, warranty and RO frequency by campaign, creative and advisor — down to the individual repair order.

The Dealerwing difference

Four commitments behind every campaign

Whatever program you run, it's built on the same foundation — clean data, measurable growth, coordinated execution and reporting you can trust.

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Clean Data Before AI

Validated dealer, OEM and DMS records, deduplicated and identity-resolved before a single message goes out.

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Fixed Ops Growth You Can Measure

Programs built around repair orders, effective labour rate and retention — not impressions.

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Omnichannel Execution Built for Service

Mail, email, SMS, outbound voice and digital sequenced as one service cadence.

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Transparent Reporting Dealers Can Trust

RO-level match-back with control groups, so you always know what your spend produced.

Dealerwing Flight Path four-week campaign cadence

Our process

A proven flight path for every campaign

A systematic, performance-proven four-week cadence — so every campaign launches on clean data and ends with reporting you can trust.

  1. 1Data pulled & scrubbed
  2. 2Creative designed
  3. 3Direct mail deploys
  4. 4BDC lists posted
  5. 5Direct mail delivers
  6. 6Email & digital deploys
  7. 7Driving traffic
  8. 8Resend email deploys
  9. 9Campaign reporting
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For dealer groups

Enterprise governance, store-level accountability

One contract, one data standard, one reporting model across every rooftop and brand — with the compliance documentation, co-op eligibility and security review your procurement team is going to ask for.

Group roll-up on the desktop, rooftop detail on the go.

  • Group roll-up and rooftop drill-down reporting
  • Brand and OEM compliance built into execution
  • Central deployment with local offer control
  • Security, consent and data-access agreements on file
Dealership service manager in the service bay

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