Mike Stoner
Male
Redmond, WA
United States
Stoner & Associates, Inc.
Profile Information:
- Which best describes you?
- Vendor Partner
- What is your current position within your organization?
- President
- What is your company website?
- http://www.theshopperstopper.com
- What is your Facebook page/URL?
- http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=897255623
- What is your LinkedIn page/URL?
- http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-stoner/8/43/a63
- How did you specifically hear about DealerELITE? If referred, who?
- Chris Saraceno
- Not everyone gets approved for DealerELITE. To maintain the integrity of DealerELITE, tell us what you will have to offer once a dealerELITE member?
- Sales and leadership experience and expertise in increasing volume sales and per car grosses on both the front and the back end of the sale.
Pete Grimm
Mike,
Right. I bought the store from Jack in 1980. Sold it in January 2006. Being a LM dealer was not going to be a good thing for the next few years (Witness demise of Mercury franchise). I'm glad I wasn't there at the end.
Cheers,
Pete
Sep 29, 2011
Pete Grimm
Wow Mike! I had no idea the "Shopper Stopper" had done so well up at Harris. Good on you. I think I accurately characterized (in a very short description) what it does. I always thought it would make a lot of sense but there was a great deal of resistance to invoice-up selling at Olympic, though frankly we found ourselves justifying margin with many of the same techniques - all the time - without a systematic approach.
Nice to connect with someone from my old stomping grounds. I've been sailing in the Bahamas, working on my daughter's 30 square mile wildlife reserve in South Africa, and playing golf at Hilton Head Island, SC (not all at the same time) since I sold out. I'll be back in Seattle during December. Maybe we can get together sometime.
Cheers,
Pete
Sep 29, 2011
Pete Grimm
Jaime and Shane are hunters. I've had the hunting vs NOT discussion with Shane before (about a leopard hunt he had). It brings in lots of money to SA, but there are many abuses. After Vietnam, I find hunting animals boring and cruel. Love my meat though. Jaime has a spread in E. WA that's about half the size of my daughter's reserve. Huge by WA standards.
Cheers,
Pete
Sep 29, 2011