After 26 years in the commercial flooring business, one begins to cherish the occasions when you can become overwhelmed with excitement or delighted by a professional experience. Many flooring industry veterans with twice as many years in service consistently search (and may pay consulting fees) for exposure to ideas and expertise that renews enthusiasm for the promise of the commercial interiors industry. Recently, a phone call came in to Starnet that captured my imagination and inspired me to share in this article.
Bob Althoff, CEO of Dealernews, a magazine for powersports dealers, and owner of A.D. Farrow Harley Davidson dealership locations in the Ohio market, called me to discuss the Starnet organization. Althoff, whose business card literally reads “World’s Luckiest Man,” is on a mission to get the powersports dealerships across the country and create the National Powersports Dealer Association (NPDA).