About Metamarketing

Metamarketing was started in 1999 to cater for the business and marketing needs of organisations based in Southern England, the Midlands and Wales. We are mainly focused on strategic marketing consultancy, and provide other aspects of marketing services (and more general business consultancy services) when required by specific projects.

The company has carried out work for a wide variety of clients, including those based in Germany, Switzerland, England and Wales. More than 150 clients have benefited from our services in the last nine years. Many of our clients are commercial organisations (mainly SMEs), but we also carry out work for public sector organisations and charities.

The company has a long term involvement (since 2002) with the Welsh Assembly Government's exporting programmes - first ExportAssist and now its successor the International Trade Development (ITD) programme. Under this programme we provide export consultancy, as well as more general marketing consultancy, to SMEs in Wales.

The company is run by Martin Ludlow, who had almost 20 years experience of marketing in client organisations, much of it at director level, before starting Metamarketing. He has an MA in philosophy, gained at Cardiff University in 2005. The insights that philosophy provides is a key part of the approach of Metamarketing.

As well as involvement in strategic aspects of business and marketing we also get involved in practical implementation. We created and wrote the copy, as well as doing all the photography, for this web site: Artspot

Socrates, 5th c. BC

Socrates' approach was to start from a position of knowing nothing and, through discussion, try to find the truth.

Strategic marketing should take the same approach - start without any preconceived ideas or assumptions, so that our own views don't get in the way of finding the truth, allowing us therefore to devise the correct strategy