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A Week in My Life: Richard Michie, Founder and CEO, The Marketing Optimist

About The Marketing Optimist

We’re The Marketing Optimist, a digital marketing agency based in Leeds, Yorkshire’s capital of Marketing. Home of high tech business, the world’s finest brew, and titans like Jarvis Cocker, David Hockney and Tracey Brabin.

Our team of marketing experts blend creative concepts, with a strategic focus, and apply technical understanding and implementation to create considered campaigns that deliver measurable results.

We build a team of specialists around your business, to elevate your marketing efforts, and drive results in the specific areas you want to focus on.

Whether that be, Marketing strategy, Search engine optimisation, Copywriting, Social media strategy and management, Paid advertising, Digital PR, Website design and development, or full service support, we can help.

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Meet the Team

Richard Michie

CEO and Founder

Christopher Fox

Copywriter & Content Strategist

Hristina Tsolova

Social Media Account Manager

Ligita Putane

Social Media Manager

Paul Cliff - Shared Head of Adult Learning and Skills

North Yorkshire Council and City of York Council

I wanted to take this moment to express my heartfelt gratitude for the tremendous work you and your team have put into making Multiply such a success. We always knew that engaging people in a programme about Maths, without actually using the word "maths," was going to be a steep hill to climb. However, thanks to your innovative and supportive approach, free from the constraints of corporate formality, we've been able to achieve this goal. Your contribution to this journey has been invaluable, and I am genuinely excited about the possibility of future collaborations. Your expertise and support have been a cornerstone of our success.

Patrick Tonks- Managing Director

Great Bean Bags

Working with Richard and his team has been a very positive experience. Beyond providing their expertise in traditional SEO and digital marketing, they consistently bring fresh, innovative strategies and explore new platforms tailored to our needs. Their creativity and forward-thinking approach keep us ahead in an ever-evolving market. They’re excellent communicators, always keeping us informed and engaged. Most importantly, their efforts have consistently delivered outstanding results for our company. Highly recommended!

Jamie Caulfield - Regional Director

Sharp Consultancy

Right from the beginning of our time working with The Marketing Optimist, they’ve taken the time and effort to get to understand Sharp Consultancy as a business and not just a client. We’ve seen a huge increase in the effectiveness of our social media strategy, particularly on LinkedIn and we’re delighted with the impact it’s had on the business.

Adam Boone - Vice President of Strategic Planning

Tango Networks

Working with The Marketing Optimist has really boosted our digital marketing and search engine optimisation efforts. The team is extremely responsive and proactive and a pleasure to work with. They have created blog postings and press materials that have taken complex technology topics and boiled them down to clear, accessible language, giving our marketing campaigns powerful impact.

Neil Bell - Director

Parker Howley

Working with The Marketing Optimist is a pleasant surprise compared to previous website/marketing agencies, they listen to what we want and need, then develop strategies that us less tech savvy people fully understand, and have closely held our hand along the way. The team, led by Richard, have vast experience in the areas of the business that we struggled with, and as such have helped drive traffic not only to our website but through to our enquiries email and phone line too, I would highly recommend them to any business wanting to take the stress and hassle of website/marketing areas and want to grow their business.

Marina Townsend - eCommerce Director

The Edit LDN

Working with The Marketing Optimist has been an absolute pleasure. They have listened and taken time to really understand our audience and gone above and beyond to ensure our experience was extremely tailored. Although we are still in the early stages we began seeing results very early on. Our bounce rate has decreased by 40% and traffic increased steadily month on month.

Jo Arthur - Owner

Moresby Hall Hotel

The whole team at Moresby Hall Hotel really love the website and importantly so do our customers. We met the Marketing Optimist team at a maketing event and were really impressed with their approach. They were enthusiastic and interested in what we were doing and quickly picked up on what we wanted to achieve. Since then, they built on that knowledge and we are always pleased with what the whole suggests and we are enjoying working with them.

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A Week in My Life: Richard Michie, Founder and CEO, The Marketing Optimist

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It all adds up for The Marketing Optimist

The Marketing Optimist, City of York and North Yorkshire Councils go forth and Multiply numeracy

The Marketing Optimist to rebrand historic Cumbrian manor house

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