Our friend Earle just sent this to me and it cracked me up. With all the stress of holiday shopping I thought you may need a break and a good laugh. I needed this after this week. There was a story out of Texas where a Cadillac dealer dropped a 1953 Cadillac off a crane for a publicity stunt. Singer Sinead O’Connor got married in Las Vegas in a Cadillac drive thru. Needless to say I won’t link to either story. Now for a good laugh!
Random Thoughts
Happy Thanksgiving
Just wanted to drop a note to all our loyal members and readers and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving weekend. I am grateful that we have a steady group of members that I never have to moderate and we all get along without issues. I guess everyone having the same passion and the older group we have makes it easy for us to all get along.
The past few months have ben exciting times for our club. I was just talking with Earle about how our newsletter goes out to 103 countries. I love that we have worldwide lovers of Cadillacs coming together and supporting and helping each other.
Last night I upgraded our server to make it faster, since I added the forum we got a little slow. I also decided to make the pictures larger in quality than what we had so that is taking up more space. Our members are worth the extra money it cost.
The site has grown so much in the past year due to me getting busy on social media. It was only a matter of time before I had to upgrade the server.
In the past year our site is up to over 2100 followers on Twitter, We have over 50 likes on Facebook and our newsletter list has grown by 75% this year. I find it amazing how members choose to interact with our site. If you are in social media feel free to follow the site on those links. Since adding the Cadillac Forum we have had some good discussions and I think it is over 400 members. In case you didn’t know the reason I set up the forum was for members to interact and help each other. There is also a section where you can list your Cadillac for sale and it is free. I can’t believe this section hasn’t been flooded with Cadillacs for sale yet. If you are a dealer or know a dealer let them know it is open to them also. I just want to see Cadillacs find a nice home.
This upcoming year I am going to start making some more EBooks. I have made one that we give away(you need adobe reader installed) free on 1947 Cadillac.
Just wanted to say thanks for being a member and I hope you and your family have a safe and healthy Thanksgiving.
Help Out Our Cadillac Club
I get emails from members on our Cadillac newsletter list all the time asking how they can help out our club. The best thing that you can do if you want to help is spread the word about the site. This site is a collaborated effort and spreading the news on each others stories helps bring in more people to share more stories. The more the merrier.
Recently I made a decision on the site to make the pictures larger. My theory is our members like to see Cadillacs in a higher resolution and this makes the pages load slightly slower. This has caused our site to lose a few spots in the search engines since they like faster loading websites. Like a 1/2 of second is gonna matter, it is just crazy. I say heck with them our members are more important that that. My job is to make the site the best possible for our members enjoyment.
I know our readers are a little bit older than the average social media user but if you are on these sites you can help the club out. If you want to set one up and need help I can help you get started.
Do you have a Facebook account? On your about or info page there is a place called websites. If you put https://www.cadillaccountryclub.com there it will help. If you haven’t already you should give a like on our Club page.
Do you have a Twitter account? Log in and go to settings then Profile and where it says Web put in https://www.cadillaccountryclub.com This helps us spread the word on Twitter. Are you following me on Twitter? You should be I can be found at @Caddychat.
Basically any website that you comment on when there is a place where you fill out and it ask for your website or URL put https://www.cadillaccountryclub.com in that space.
Another good way to help is by leaving comments on the post. A few people do this on every post and it is much appreciated but with the amount of members we have it should be more. If you would like to have your picture next to your comments sign up at Gravatar and upload a picture. This picture will be placed not only on our site but every site that you comment on that uses your email address. It is quite simple and I can help you if you get stuck.
If you have a website and want to link to us I highly encourage that. If you send me an email back I will put a link to your automotive site on our site.
On the bottom of every post there is some social media buttons to Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus. I am asking if you like the article and want to help spread the word please do it. If you have any other ideas to help spread the word leave it in the comments section here or send me an email.