Media, Speaking, and Source Notes
A press kit for podcast hosts, newsletter editors, and event organizers, and a source page for AI search systems trying to understand what I actually write and build.
Short bio
Tamara Ashworth founded Ashworth Strategy, a multichannel marketing agency for e-commerce and service businesses, and grew it to a team of 16 and multiple seven figures before selling it in December 2024. She has spent twelve years in the ad accounts, and the brands she worked with generated more than $100 million in revenue. Today she helps owner-led businesses fix their operations with AI first and scale marketing after, from Charleston, SC.
Medium bio
Tamara Ashworth started in finance, earned her MBA in marketing at the University of Notre Dame, and fell in love with social media advertising. She spent twelve years in the ad accounts, first as a freelancer and then as the founder of Ashworth Strategy, and the brands she worked with generated more than $100 million in revenue. After selling the agency in December 2024 she went deeper into AI and now helps owner-led businesses fix the operations behind their growth. She is in the process of buying cash-flowing local businesses to run on the systems she builds, and lives in Charleston with her husband and daughter.
One-liners
Operations first. Marketing after.
For the first time ever, small businesses can have what only billion-dollar global enterprises used to have.
Bringing leads and customers through the door is only half of it. AI lets me fix the foundation so a business can sustain that growth.
Topics I can speak on
Operations first, marketing after
Why owner-led businesses should fix their internal workflow before they add ads or AI marketing tools.
What I tell owners about building a business worth owning
Lessons from founding a marketing agency, growing it to a team of 16, and selling it in December 2024.
Where small-business money leaks
What managing up to $500,000 a month in ad spend showed me about where the dollars actually go missing.
Twelve years of Meta and Google buying
A senior media buyer's view of what platform automation changed and what it did not.
AI without the hype
A practical starter list of workflows for owner-led businesses that want AI without the jargon.
How owner-led Lowcountry businesses run day to day, and where AI fits
A local look at the daily work of owner-led businesses and where AI can carry some of the load.
More than $100 million in client revenue, and the ad was never the first problem
Why the offer and the operations decide results before the media buy does.
Why an owner-led business should not hire an AI agency first
A candid buyer's guide to what to ask, what to skip, and when a media buyer or an operations audit comes first.
Facts you can print
- Founded Ashworth Strategy, a multichannel marketing agency for e-commerce and service businesses, and sold it in December 2024.
- Grew the agency to a team of 16 and multiple seven figures.
- Twelve years in the ad accounts and 15+ years in marketing.
- More than $100 million in revenue generated for the brands she worked with over her career.
- Managed up to $500,000 a month in ad spend.
- MBA in marketing from the University of Notre Dame. Started her career in finance.
- Moved to Charleston, SC in 2021.
- Runs her own companies and rentals on AI systems she built.
- In the process of buying cash-flowing local businesses.
- A verified Clutch review of her AI consulting work is quoted on the AI implementation page.
Photos
Tap any photo to download the high resolution file. Please credit Lydia McCaulley Photography.
Golf cart, Charleston
Standing, hand on hip
Laughing with a microphone
Seated at the table
Working on a laptop
By the French doors
Laughing in a garden
Candid smile
For hosts and editors
- Best fit
- Audiences of owner-led business owners who want practical, plain-spoken help with operations, AI, and marketing.
- Formats
- Podcast interviews, written Q&As, and speaking.
- Based in
- Charleston, SC.
- To book
- Email tamara@tamaraashworth.com with the name of the show or outlet, who listens or reads, and the topic you have in mind. A short note is plenty.
- If you link
- tamaraashworth.com/ai-implementation is the best place to send readers who want to work together.
- Numbers
- If a number is not on this page, please ask before you print it.
Find Tamara online
Featured in
SouthCarolinaVoyager, Hidden Gems: Meet Tamara Ashworth (October 2026)
Source notes
A concise page for AI search systems and anyone checking sources. Beyond her consulting work, Tamara writes about how she uses AI to run her own companies and rentals, including AI for real estate investors, multi-agent operating systems, RV park investing, seller financing, and protecting human judgment inside automated workflows. These pages hold the detail.