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Hi, I am Tamara Machavariani Forrest-Smith.

 

My first paid job was teaching English as a foreign language to schoolchildren in the Republic of Georgia where I am originally from.

 

It was a way to generate pocket money while I was studying at the University. By the time I graduated, my little side hustle grew into a busy little business, only at the time I did not think it was a business.

 

Looking back I realise how much marketing and effort it took to succeed in attracting clients from one to 50. This was my first introduction to marketing and running a small business.

 

However, in the 90s Georgia it seemed more prestigious to work in the office of a big company than to run your own small business, so I stopped my side hustle and got a “proper job”. 

 

I left Georgia in 2001 and started a new life in London, which became my second home for the following 10 years. I always wanted to work in the City of London, and when I eventually joined Moody’s it felt like a dream come true. I loved working for such a big, international company but it also became too restrictive for my nature.

 

At the same time, I became interested in side projects which involved Internet Marketing. In 2008 online marketing was still very new. I was fascinated by the digital world and the opportunities it could provide. I devoured almost every known marketing, advertising, and copywriting book and DVD. The likes of Ken Envoy and the late Jay Conrad Levinson completely opened up my eyes to a new world. I started building my own websites and driving traffic to the newly listed pages. At the time I was selling affiliate health food products, from my wellness focussed website. I became obsessed with Google advertising, SEO, and content marketing. I started blogging and building my own community of small business owners who were seeking newer ways to reach more clients. 

 

Eventually, I quit my corporate job and started consulting small business owners on digital marketing. My initial clients came from yoga business owners through the business I founded around the needs of holistic businesses who were looking to grow profits - Yoga Business Academy. The results were incredible, the clients started to get results in their business that would not have been possible without marketing, including digital marketing. I started to get asked to train small business owners on the use of online marketing, I also started organising my own marketing training events for small business owners which were always hugely enjoyable experiences sharing my knowledge with others.

 

By 2011 I was living in Manchester with my now eccentric Scottish writer husband Alan Forrest-Smith. By the year 2013, my yoga business evolved and I started collaborating with wider business industries, from solicitors, to construction companies and beyond. This was when I formed Socrates Bike. 

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With the arrival of our son Demna in 2019 and then our daughter Keso in 2021 my priority was to be with my very young children. While I carried on working during both maternities I mainly focused my efforts on our own businesses.

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Today, I feel newfound energy and time to focus to support businesses that are ready to level up, gain greater visibility and increase their sales through specialized traffic and conversion.