About Our Full Service Digital Marketing Agency
Digital Marketing Services in the UK
One Vision
To Be Our Clients’ Most Trusted Advisors
Maratopia was founded by its CEO Stephen Harvey-Franklin (Steve to everyone except Mum).
Steve’s first exposure to digital marketing services was in the early days of the internet back in 1996 and through the 90s, running a number stock photo, music, effects and footage agencies in London.
The stunning success enjoyed, combined a fast growing audio visual market, an industry roll up, global distribution and a product that could be digitised, sold and delivered online.
Having helped lead one of the world’s leading stock content agencies into this new online e-commerce world, he decided to become poacher turned gamekeeper. Taking the incredible early learnings from client side to agency side. Not many agencies are born from e-commerce success nor the client side ethos.
Maratopia more than most understand the heartbeat of businesses and their need for results, deliverability, accountability and return on investment. That’s why we concentrate so vehemently on being fact and evidenced based, plain English. No false hopes, no smoke and mirrors here, just statistical analysis.
For example, we have developed a unique approach to search marketing analysis, taking into account over 20 key drivers of search position to analyse and devise the precise ingredients required for any given keyword to make the top 10 of Google’s search results.
This is why we spend so long analysing potential clients. Our Search Space Analysis is a process forever being refined to understand a site’s search space, keywords, content , core web vitals ,backlinks and competitors , to create the perfect picture of the search environment and the strengths and weaknesses of their competitors.
Only by understanding strengths and weaknesses (gap analysis on each level) can you truly identify what is needed to beat each and every competitor as cost effectively as possible.
Why Choose Maratopia
Bespoke – All websites, competitors, search environments and locales are different, that’s why we don’t deal in standardised packages, we create custom campaigns that meet your budget expectations
Experience – Some of our team have been with us 20 years+ others 10 years + No one less than 5 years, you won’t have kids working on your valuable campaign
Our Vision is to be …
our clients’ most trusted advisors
Transparency – We do what we say and we evidence our work in monthly reports
Evidence Based – We don’t work on hunches and hearsay, we aim to take the guesswork out of SEO with our forensic evidence based approach.
Work Ethic – We work to get the job done effectively for you and often over deliver to see your campaign meets its objectives
Results – We’re judged by the results we get for you, we go beyond the contractual minimums and this is why our customers stay with us so long
Accountability – We work to your KPIs and your budget
Plain English – We won’t try to bamboozle you with smoke and mirrors, sleight of hand or by pretending SEO is one of the dark arts. We’ll use plain English, explain at whatever level you need us to.
Quality – We only use our own team, we do not engage in wholesale freelancing, preferring to control our own quality of delivery
No Surprises Policy – No surprise costs and if ever we do slip up, we admit it and resolve it and go the extra mile for you. If there’s bad news we don’t hide it, we do something about it
Exclusivity – If we work with you, we don’t work for your competitors – simple!
Confidentiality – We will sign your NDA to protect your candour with us.
Price Match – We’re an efficient bunch, so if a big agency is undercutting us , they will be cutting corners, that’s why we’ll price match any agency like for like
Size – We’re not the biggest, but we’re big enough to have some of the most experienced knowledgeable people in the industry across all of the SEO disciplines. We’re small enough to need and value your custom.
Empathy By Experience – Pre agency days Steve ran several B2B and B2C E-commerce businesses and has been on your side of the table enough to understand the importance of results and return on investment.
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Maratopia – What’s With The Name?
‘Maratopia’ might sound pretty mind-bending, but once you know our brand backstory, you’ll understand why it informs everything we do.
Apart from being as cool as eight-legged cucumbers, spiders are intimately associated with Search, so since once of our core services is weaving SEO magic to capture customers, our brand’s awesomely aligned with arachnids.
- ‘Maratus’ is the scientific name for the Rainbow Spider – he’s a pretty snazzy fellow who uses bold colours to attract attention, but he’s all business when it comes to capturing his targets.
- The suffix ‘topia’ simply indicates a place with specified characteristics.
- Blend both together and you’ve got Maratopia – the place where creative style and technical excellence merge magnificently.
For all you fellow spider obsessives out there, our legendary logo represents the Maratus spider’s supercharged 4-layered retina, as well as our our authentic ‘think-create-share-engage’ mantra – pretty neat, right?