Mike P. Johnson · Used Car Operations & Digital Growth Operator

What you already know

If you're managing the used car department day to day, none of this is news. But it's worth saying out loud.

Aged units burn around $30 a day each in floorplan, overhead, and depreciation. By day 60 that's $900 you've already spent to avoid taking $1,500 of medicine on day 30.
Most internet leads still wait 30 to 60 minutes for a real human reply. Every minute past five costs you about 3% in contact rate.
Your VDP descriptions and photos on the top movers are doing the heavy lifting. The other 80% of inventory is doing whatever the stock-feed gave you.
Your aged inventory list and your recon stall list are usually the same list, but nobody pulls them next to each other on a Monday morning.
Most of this gets surfaced at month-end. By then it has already cost the gross.

The Daily Used Car Opportunity Report

What I want on your desk before coffee

A one-page report that lands in your inbox at 6 AM. Five minutes to read. Thirty minutes to act on if anything's hot. Same format every morning.

Sample · Renders fresh each morning

Five sections, one page

Aged units to address today (60+ days, with current vs. market price and a suggested action)
Recon stalls past target window (with stage and how long they've been stuck)
Top 5 mispriced units against current valley comps
Internet leads from the last 24 hours that didn't get a real human response
Three things worth doing this morning

Download a sample PDF

90-second walkthrough Loom · embed coming

About

Operator background, not a vendor pitch

I grew up in the dealership business. My father owned a store, and I've worked nearly every seat in a used car department. Buying. Appraisals. Recon. Internet sales. Inventory. Merchandising. CRM. Management.

I helped grow a used car department from roughly 40 units and $140K in monthly gross to about 80 units and $375K. Most of the lift came from the boring stuff. Turn. Recon throughput. Pricing discipline. Lead follow-up. Giving managers a daily one-page picture instead of a month-end surprise.

These days I run a lean operation of my own and build practical AI-assisted reporting for franchise dealers in the valley. AI is the tool. Profit, turn, and visibility are the point.

Not looking for a floor sales role.

Three ways to start

Pick the one that fits your store

01 · No commitment

Free 1-page Used Car Opportunity Snapshot

I'll run the snapshot on your store from public data. Market rank in the valley. Inventory pricing vs. what's actually selling. Aging buckets. Segment mix vs. demand. Two pages, four-minute read. No pitch.

Request the snapshot

02 · 14 days, no cost

Daily Used Car Opportunity Report — free trial

I run the daily report manually for your store for two weeks. Your data, your inventory, your CRM. Lands in your inbox at 6 AM each business day. If it's useful, we talk about what comes next. If not, no problem.

Start the trial

03 · For dealers ready to move

In-store role or 90-day project

For dealerships that want a used car operator on the team, a defined operational rebuild, or a monthly retainer covering the daily report plus a monthly review with the GM.

Let's talk