SAIC is a Chinese state-ownedautomotive design and manufacturing company
Objective / insight
China has the single highest traffic deaths in the world and 165,000+ auto breakdowns annually, many of which can be avoided with better car maintenance.
in China many drivers are first-generation in their family and didn’t grew up learning car driving and maintenance in their youth. For them, cost, time and location are all barriers to good maintenance of car
10% of cars in China are SAIC- GM manufactured. SAIC-GM sees a social responsibility to raise people’s awareness to about car maintenance issues
Implemented strategy
The campaign created a unique ID, “MyCarPulse” for each cars to interact with individual owners
“MyCarPulse” individualized cars with hyper-personalized messages that allowed owners to get timely lifestyle-relevant feedbacks from their car and also bring to live their on-the-road experiences
Hyper-personalized wechat/sms communication is also integrated in each Mycarpulse ID to provide to owners with educational contents and to encourage them to go for car maintenance service
Technology implemented
Each owner’s profile (life style, driving pattern, car condition) is analyzed and identified by AI-powered 5-dimension algorithme. Thus reports can be delivered at the least disruptive and most relevant times to each car owner
Owners’ profiles are drawn from AI-powered state-of-the-art HADOOP framework of CRM, dealership, OnStar & WeChat community databases
Result
More than double increase in maintenance service reservation rate
SAIC Owner club registrations increased by 30%
Word-of-mouth was so strong that “MyCarPulse” will become an always-on service from second-half of 2017