When it comes to a website, hosting is easily one of the most important pieces of the puzzle. Your agency can design and develop the best-looking, high-performance website, but if you’ve chosen the wrong host, your customers will have a frustrating experience when they try to access it. Before we...
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On February 25, 2022, at the American Advertising Federation “ADDY” Awards, MDR walked away with the top awards for some of its best branding and creative work for clients in the Corpus Christi, Houston, and San Antonio metro areas. Collecting “Best of Show” for its work on the Champs Meat...
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At MDR, we work toward two simple goals: keeping our clients happy today—and looking to what’s next so we can keep ‘em happy tomorrow. It’s an idea that we’ve delivered on since opening our doors in the 1970s. But as many of us recall, those days in advertising looked a...
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Stephen Rybak, MDR’s Principal and Chief Creative Officer, was recently invited to speak at the AAF presentation on branding—hosted at the Bay Jewel, and facilitated by Larry Tucker from the Goodway Group. Rybak was also joined by Emily Zertuche of Visit Corpus Christi, and Lorette Williams of Del Mar College. Stephen shared insights on how we build brands with ambition, along with examples...
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Like many things during the pandemic, this project was put on temporary hold – but it finally saw the light of day last weekend at the much anticipated Boston Marathon! Our design team did an amazing job creating this "Road to Boston" backdrop for CITGO's official fuel sponsorship of the...
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Add Images to your Google Search Ads Google has made a series of changes this year around Google Ads. Some were great (delayed death of the cookie) and others left us wondering where Google was going with this (sunsetting +modified +broad +match terms). Earlier this year though, Google started slowly...
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Like many businesses today, NavyArmy Community Credit Union is facing a staff shortage, with positions open in the Coastal Bend and Rio Grande Valley. To attract potential job seekers, MDR got to work developing a campaign promoting key benefits such as work/life balance, the college tuition reimbursement program and excellent...
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By: Mo Morehead When Fred Dotts and I started the agency in 1974, we did so on the proverbial shoestring. The inside of our first office in an old rundown building was so small we had to take the lumber inside the office to build our desks. There was no…
You have a dentist for teeth. A doctor for what ails you. And a vet for furry friends. Different specialists to cover different needs. So, wouldn’t breaking up tasks amongst several specialists make just as much sense for your marketing? Surprisingly, no. Over nearly five decades at MDR, we’ve seen…
A common challenge for mid-to-small businesses is how to best extend your marketing budget. You know you need help, but the thought of hiring a marketing agency can seem daunting, expensive, or even unnecessary—especially in a time where do-it-yourself websites and social advertising are widely available. Marketing, as you’re probably…