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Apr 28, 20184 min read
Platinum Rule Marketing!
The Bible is the source of the Golden Rule: “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” (Matt. 7:12). The Platinum Rule is the...


Apr 1, 20185 min read
Mastering ‘Experiential’ Marketing!
The word ‘experiential’ is a Latin word from the 1600s relating to our actions from ‘learned’ experiences. From a customer’s...


Feb 28, 20184 min read
5 Ways to Power-Up Your Advertising Effectiveness!
There are a lot of ways to power-up your ad effectiveness. Here’s my top five! 1. Research Now, more than ever, you need real-time...


Feb 26, 20182 min read
Ford Website Providers: Who Are They and How Do You Choose?
How do you measure the success of your dealership website? Is it how many leads you get? Average VDP views? Number of website visitors...


Feb 2, 20183 min read
Automotive Marketing Insights: Using Promotion Extensions to Dramatically Increase Click Thru Rates
By Bob Myhal Digital Director – CBC Automotive Marketing As with all forms of marketing, digital marketing boils down to reaching the...


Jan 31, 20184 min read
Advertising Your Tech-spertise!
Nothing has changed as much in our automotive industry in the past 20 years as the technical advances in vehicles. Millennials love the...


Jan 2, 20182 min read
Are Your Customers ‘Attitudinally Loyal’, And Why Should You Care? (Part 2)
(Part 2 of 2) Part 1 of this series discussed the differences between behavioral loyalty and attitudinal loyalty, and why...


Dec 31, 20174 min read
Your People Are Your Brand
What is your brand? It’s likely a combination of name recognition, years in business, innovation, location, consistency, service, and...


Dec 2, 20173 min read
Click Thru Rate: The Building Block of Successful Digital Campaigns
Originally posted in AutoSuccess Online on 11/2/17 Digital marketing at its worst isn’t much better than putting up a billboard next to...


Nov 28, 20174 min read
Professional Voice-Over Secrets
If you, or someone in your dealership does on-camera work or voice-overs for radio, here are some professional ‘secrets’ from someone...


Oct 27, 20174 min read
Tell Your Story!
First, a couple of thoughts: If you don’t have a ‘brand’, you are just a retailer of a commodity. If you don’t have a brand, you have...

Oct 19, 20171 min read
Free Educational Audio for Dealerships: Using Big Data to Your Advantage!
By Matt Hayward At Digital Dealer 23 in September 2017, CBC Automotive Marketing’s Bob Myhal teamed up with Oracle Data Cloud’s Arianne...


Sep 28, 20172 min read
Are your customers “attitudinally-loyal”, and why should you care? (Part 1)
(Part 1 of 2) Customer loyalty can be broken down into two key categories: behavioral loyalty and attitudinal loyalty. Behavioral...


Sep 26, 20173 min read
Your BRAND is Either Growing…or You’re Going!
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift; that’s why they call it the present.” -Eleanor Roosevelt Tomorrow, in...


Aug 25, 20174 min read
Advertising ‘Attitude’ is Everything!
In advertising, just as in every other aspect of your business, attitude IS everything. The tone, the message, the inflection, the...


Feb 4, 20172 min read
Must-See TV Media Buys
The Super Bowl. Must-see movie of the year. Award show season. How do you know if it’s worth the extra cash to run within high profile...

Jan 28, 20172 min read
Automotive Digital Marketing: Don’t Forget What Matters Most
I hear it all the time: “why did our Google Adwords click thru rate drop from 4.7% to 4.2% last month? What are we doing wrong?” When it...


Dec 1, 20162 min read
The Relevancy of Radio
Is radio still relevant? In an ever-increasing digital marketing world, finding the right media mix for a successful automotive...


Oct 26, 20163 min read
Piggyback Power!
achieve greater value through ‘Piggybacking’ If you employ radio advertising in your marketing plan, ‘piggybacking’ thirty-second spots...


Oct 11, 20164 min read
Advertising In The Season of Politics
Business etiquette A rule of etiquette in business, at the dinner table, at the barbershop —is “never talk about religion or politics”....