Marketing, Digital Plus Post

How to Easily Integrate YouTube Ads in Your 2022 Marketing Plan

YouTube ads provide excellent access to local marketing efforts. Marketers are anxious to get into this marketing channel, but the "How to" part can be daunting. Here's a quick dive into the world of YouTube advertising and how you can easily integrate pre-roll ads into your 2022 marketing plan.…

The Plus Podcast, Digital Plus Post

30: Leave No Leads Behind With Online Retargeting

Online ads are a popular tool for marketers that are commonly used for a multitude of purposes. In previous blog posts, we have covered the different types of online ads and what the best option is…

Marketing, Mail, Data

Direct Marketing Glossary of Terms

We get a lot of requests for our direct marketing glossary of terms from partners and customers.  Here's a link to Midwest Direct's glossary of direct marketing terms, and we've included some other…

Marketing

Our Favorite Marketing Tools for Working From Home

The marketing department at Midwest Direct is familiar with the concept of working from home since between the three of us, we work from home at least some part of the week. In fact, most of our blogs…

Marketing

Ad Fraud? What Ad Fraud?

Ad Fraud remains an invasive cash drain for most online advertisers. HOWEVER, we have a few tactics that can help you get much more for your ad spend.…

Case Studies

Multi-Channel Holiday Campaign Gets Results

Results for Simplay3 include a response rate of 3% with a 6.6% conversion rate!Simplay3, a new-to-market toy manufacturing company, asked our Marketing Advisory Group to help create and deliver a…

Marketing

Our Favorite Marketing Tools of 2017

From productive apps to mail-inspired playlists, we’ve reviewed our most beloved marketing tools of the year: Organizational Trello: Interactive boards and cards allow users to organize tasks, track…

Marketing

What Ever Happened to QR Codes?

Do you remember when QR codes were the big thing in advertising? It seemed almost impossible to get anything, even a bag from McDonald’s, without that futuristic-looking barcode on it somewhere. It…

Marketing

Going Cookie-less: The Benefits of IP Targeting

Leave it to the internet to devise a way for us to hate what would normally be a favorite dessert of many: not warm, chewy in the center or made from a secret family recipe that goes way back, we’re…