Who is Red Olive?
Before you commit to any agency, it helps to review what they actually offer, how they price it, and where they focus. Here's what we found when we looked at Red Olive.
Red Olive is a digital marketing and web design agency founded in 1999 by Matthew Moeller, who still leads the firm as CEO. Headquartered in Sandy, Utah with offices in Las Vegas and New York City. The published client roster — Swire Coca-Cola, Ryan Homes, Zermatt Resort, Ivanti, Travel for Youth, United Team Mechanical — spans beverage, residential construction, hospitality, software, and travel. Project minimums start at $20,000 and engagements typically run 3–6 months.
Recognition: Founded 1999 by Matthew Moeller (still CEO) · 25+ years in business · Google Premier Partner (top 3% of agencies globally) · $20,000 minimum project cost · Reported ~$9.7M annual revenue (2025) · Published clients include Swire Coca-Cola, Ryan Homes, Zermatt Resort, Ivanti, Travel for Youth, United Team Mechanical
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Where Red Olive excels
Operational longevity and Google partner status. 26 years in business is rare — most digital agencies that opened in 1999 are long gone. Red Olive is also a Google Premier Partner, which Google awards to the top 3% of agencies globally and gives access to Google reps and tooling that smaller shops don't see. Combined with named enterprise clients like Swire Coca-Cola and Ryan Homes, the institutional muscle is real for mid-market and larger projects.
And if you're a hospitality contractor specifically, that trade depth counts for something. Red Olive knows the seasonal surges, the buyer hesitations, and the search patterns that generalist agencies miss entirely.
Our take
A $20,000 project minimum is meaningful signal. It tells you Red Olive isn't set up for $1,500/month local SEO retainers — they're built for mid-market and larger projects where the budget supports a Google Premier Partner team. So the question for a contractor isn't really "are they good?" — 26 years and Swire Coca-Cola on the roster answer that. The question is whether your project clears the minimum and whether the Ryan Homes case study actually translates to an HVAC or roofing operation. Ryan Homes is a residential builder, not a service contractor. The conversion math is different.
Who typically hires Red Olive
Mid-market and enterprise organizations across hospitality, beverage, residential construction, software, and travel — particularly those that can clear the $20,000 project minimum and want a Google Premier Partner with 26 years of operational history. Strong fit for projects measured in months, not weeks.
Where Fervor differs as a Red Olive alternative
Red Olive and Fervor cover overlapping ground — SEO, Google Ads, conversion work — but the shape is different. Red Olive runs that playbook across many industries. Fervor runs it for contractors only, and ties every channel to the same number: booked jobs per visitor. So if you're pulling 2,000 visits a month and the phone only rings 9 times, we don't argue about whether the problem is traffic or conversion. We diagnose which one is actually leaking and fix that side of the funnel.
(Quick way to tell where your gap is: check your Google Analytics. Under 500 monthly sessions usually means you need more visibility — SEO, GBP, paid search. Over 1,000 and the phone still isn't ringing means the conversion path is leaking. Fervor works on both, contractor-side.)
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Where Red Olive may fall short for contractors
The published portfolio is enterprise-leaning — Swire Coca-Cola, Ivanti, Ryan Homes (residential builder), Zermatt Resort. Service contractors aren't represented in the surfaced case studies. The $20,000 project minimum and 3–6 month timelines also rule out most $500K-$2M contractors who need faster, cheaper engagements. And the model is web design and traffic acquisition, not contractor-specific conversion math. If your booked-jobs number is the metric that matters and your budget is contractor-tier rather than enterprise-tier, Red Olive isn't calibrated for that.
Choosing the right agency for your business
Choose Red Olive if:
- You need an agency that only works with hospitality contractors
- You want hospitality-specific keyword strategy and campaign management
- You value google premier partner (top 3% globally) + 26-year operational history + named enterprise client roster (swire coca-cola, ryan homes, ivanti) + multi-office utah/vegas/nyc footprint
Choose Fervor if:
- Your site gets traffic but your close rate from web leads sits under 5%
- You want to know exactly which pages are bleeding leads right now
- You need a website rebuilt around revenue per visitor, not just how it looks
- You want a Canada-based agency that works with US and Canadian contractors
One more thing. Red Olive and Fervor cover overlapping ground. The honest split is shape, not service line: Red Olive is built for breadth across industries; Fervor is built for depth across contractor trades, with revenue-per-visitor measurement on every account. Some contractors review both options and pick the fit that matches the way their team thinks about marketing.
Questions to review before hiring Red Olive
Who founded Red Olive and where is it actually headquartered?
Matthew Moeller founded Red Olive in 1999 and still leads the firm as CEO. The headquarters is in Sandy, Utah — not Las Vegas. Red Olive has additional offices in Las Vegas and New York City, which is why it shows up in Las Vegas SEO searches.
Who are Red Olive's named clients?
The published client roster includes Swire Coca-Cola (beverage), Ryan Homes (residential construction), Zermatt Resort (hospitality), Ivanti (enterprise software), Travel for Youth, and United Team Mechanical. The mix skews enterprise and mid-market rather than local SMB.
What's Red Olive's minimum project size?
$20,000 project minimum, with engagements typically running 3–6 months. That's mid-market territory — most local SEO retainers and small-business web projects fall below that floor. So if your budget is $1,500–$3,000/month, Red Olive is likely outside the engagement range.
Does Red Olive work with contractors?
Not directly surfaced in published case studies. Ryan Homes (a residential builder) is the closest — but residential building is different from service contracting. The portfolio doesn't include named roofing, HVAC, plumbing, or electrical companies. So a contractor would be a non-standard fit relative to the firm's typical work.
How does Red Olive compare to Fervor Studio?
Different scale and focus. Red Olive is a 26-year, Google Premier Partner agency with $20K project minimums and an enterprise-leaning client roster (Swire Coca-Cola, Ivanti, Ryan Homes). Fervor runs SEO, Google Ads, and CRO for contractors only, with revenue-per-visitor measurement on every account. Enterprise web-design muscle versus contractor-specialist growth work.
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