Dedicado Agency

Founder

Selzy | Email Marketing

Mentor

Responsibilities:

SMM Strategy on LinkedIn, IG, FB, Twitter.
Paid Social activities on LinkedIn, Meta, TikTok.
Cold Outreach

Head of Social Media

Spreading the word about the best email marketing platform Selzy

Business Development Specialist

UniOne Email API

Development Manager

FirstPour

An invaluable experience as a one-person digital marketing team 🦑

Together with a wonderful international content team, I managed and executed the social media strategy for over 20 wine brands, including renowned names like Vinexpo Paris, California Wines Institute, Diageo, D.O. Cava, Protos, and many more.

I was responsible for all digital marketing activities:

↳ Paid Ads on Meta, LinkedIn, Google Ads for brand awareness and lead generation/sales
↳ Email marketing automation and Messenger marketing
↳ Web analytics and reporting
↳ Creation of landing pages

Having worked in large companies and agencies, where each specialist is narrowly specialised in their channel, working at FirstPour allowed me to expand my expertise and gain experience as a web analyst, email marketer, SEM, and Paid Social specialist, as well as a website creator.

About the Project: FirstPour is a social media marketing agency uniquely positioned to understand the inner workings of the wine market.

Paid Social Media Specialist 

Kotewine

My wine tasting club: A practice ground for digital marketing skills 🍷

What started as an Instagram account about wine quickly turned into a wine club and then an online wine course. Here are some of the results from this project:

↳ Approximately 100 students
↳ 10 Offline wine tastings
↳ 10 partnerships with wine stores and influencers
↳ 300 subscribers for the Telegram bot "Online Sommelier"
↳ 5,000 followers on Instagram through organic content with an average engagement rate of 8%

This experience taught me how to:

↳ Create a community-driven wine portal
↳ Develop digital assets: images, videos, texts, landing pages
↳ Organize wine events and tastings both offline and online
↳ Build an audience organically in a highly restrictive market
↳ Construct a multi-touch point digital ecosystem

JTI (Japan Tobacco International)

JTI is a leading FMCG company in Russia. My function — management of various digital channels of communication. 

🟢 Responsibilities
• Creation and implementation of holistic strategy in IG, FB, VK with respect to social media rules of a highly restricted industry to increase corporate brand awareness
• Anti-illicit trade portal promotion via digital channels: VK, Telegram, Yandex Zen, Yandex Direct, Google Ads 

🚀 Achievements
• Social media subscribers +30% organic post reach +40%
• Generation of 10% additional year traffic to the corporate portal due to SMM seeding campaign optimization which saved >20k $ in 6 months period

Digital Communications Manager

Simple Wine News

Simple Wine News is the leading print and online magazine about the Wine & Spirits industry in Russia. It is one of the oldest media outlets about wine in Russia that belongs to the leading premium wine importing company Simple. 

🟢 Responsibilities 
• Contribution to the English section of the website
• Research of the topics interesting to the English speaking audience

🚀Achievements 
• Initiation of the Weekly Wine Digest project that summarizes the wine news of the Russian wine market 
• Writing 14 issues of Weekly Wine Digest 
• Translation of 12 regular issues of Simple Wine News from Russian to English

Author

HSAd

HS Ad Russia is a full-service in-house advertising agency serving the LG Electronics network on a global level. I was responsible for LG Russia Social Media strategy, implementation and day-to-day activities.

🟢 Responsibilities:
• SMM strategy development and implementation in IG, FB, YT, VK, OK, TikTok
• Tendering, briefing, and working with outside vendors to execute paid social campaigns, video/photo production, content moderation, influencer marketing

🚀 Achievements
• Successful internalised all SMM management and production that resulted in company year savings of >65k $
• Increase +300% of total subscribers in IG, FB, TikTok, YT, VK, OK, organic traffic from social media to the company website +30%, organizing contests driving ER increase up to 10x times
• Integration of social selling tools: catalogs in Fb, IG, and VK

Senior Social Media Marketing Manager

Social Media Marketing Manager

iMVINO app

IMVINO is a start-up of a new wine app on the Russian market.

🟢Responsibilities
• Development of marketing strategy
• Leading all SMM activities from the start in IG, VK, FB, TG
• Supervision of all photo, video and text production for website and social media
• Active participation in the app development together with the vendor

🚀 Achievements
• Total number of subscribers in SMM 10k by the end of 2018 (1,5 years of project execution)
• Partnership with >10 wine importers and retailers, including leaders of the industry: Beluga Group, Metro Expo, Moscow Retail Forum, St. Petersburg Retail Forum, Association of Rostov winemakers
• Organization of >10 promotional events for the app among professional audiences and various stakeholders

Marketing manager

MBG Impex

MBG is among the leaders of wine and spirits imports in Russia. I was responsible for both marketing and education activities.

🟢 Responsibilities
• Copy-writing for the company’s website and social media
• Development of marketing, POS materials, and selling brochures for sales managers
• Organization of wine tastings for company managers, professionals of the wine industry, private clients
• Organization and management of foreign suppliers’ visits to Russia

🚀 Achievements
• Launch of the regular newsletter for the company’s sales managers’ support
• Creation of a wine tasting club at the company’s restaurant and realization of >20 events, with >300 participants
• Organization and realization of >500 workshops in 11 cities of Russia for professionals of the industry and clients

Training Manager

Junior Training Manager

growth @ Selzy // paid social @ FirstPour

👋 Hi! My name is Evgeny.

After 5 years in the wine industry 🍷, I switched to digital marketing.

In 2022, I became a digital nomad and moved to Armenia. Since then, LinkedIn has become my primary social network, and I have met many great people from all over the world here. ✨

Currently, I use LinkedIn to share professional insights and some personal stuff. I'm always happy to connect with like-minded people.

Professionally, I'm focused on:

↳ B2B SaaS Products Marketing
↳ SMM and Content Marketing
↳ Paid Social on Meta and LinkedIn
↳ Email Marketing
↳ Cold Emails

Always happy to share what I learned. 

If this resonates with you, feel free to send me a connection request or simply follow 😊.

Evgeny Kotelevskiy

Andrea Bosoni

Look at this. To the average person this seems like a normal video that got very popular.

But behind the scenes it’s been designed to do a very important thing. It positions Jenni on par with ChatGPT and music.

A tool so popular it didn’t even need to be explained what it is.

This video is designed to make people feel like everyone else knows about it except them. 

Especially in that target audience no one wants the feeling of missing out.

A lot of them will go and Google it. They’ve been influenced without even realizing it.

Someone said that a $10–15k/month product is a hobby and not a business.

Let’s forget for a second that this is more than the average salary of most people.

For many solo founders the goal isn’t to make as much money as possible.

It’s to feel free and build a life they don’t need a vacation from.

A while ago I wrote about wanting a tool to manage my comments without having to open X and LinkedIn and getting sucked into the feed.

Buffer saw my post and reached out to me asking questions. Then they built it and gave me access to try it. Today they’re launching it to everyone.

I think this is a great example of how actually listening to your ideal customers can get you not only more sales but also free word of mouth.

My marketing predictions for 2026:

- People will start to realize that AEO, GEO or whatever you want to call it is something they can measure but not really influence besides traditional search fundamentals and building a brand real people talk about

- In an attempt to make up for all the lost search clicks most brands will double down on hiring in-house creators who can demonstrate the ability to produce original content that gets attention online

- As distribution channels shrink and acquiring new customers profitably becomes harder we’ll see more acquisitions of emerging bootstrapped players by bigger funded brands as a growth tactic

There’s a growing number of people copying my content. I know because I get tagged in the comments.

So I tried something different and sent some of them a message asking why they did it.

I got basically three answers:

“Oh it wasn’t me it was my ghostwriter”

“My AI tool made me do it”

“But everyone copies everything all the time”

Even assuming that’s true (which I’m not sure) I honestly can’t decide which one is the worst.

Social media is becoming 100% about followers, business and money. I kinda miss the old days when it was that but also more than that.

Today a lawyer told me that if you’re based in Italy and want to do a giveaway you need to notify the Italian department of the Treasury, post a surety bond, have a data server physically located in Italy, file the terms and conditions with the authorities, call a notary or the Chamber of commerce to certify the winner, submit an official closing report and a few other things 🤌

I promise you don’t have to be a 20-something who just dropped out of college to build something online. This is a limiting belief that a lot of people still have and that I really want to see disappear. I hope to see more and more older folks who hate their job and feel trapped start something on the side and be successful.

Being a marketer fucked up my mind. Every time I see something interesting I start thinking how I’d turn it into content. It’s a curse.

I took a look at the social media profiles of the founders of the top 15 startups with more revenue on this chart and 80% of them have less than 10k followers. I don’t want to draw any conclusion from this but it’s interesting because it goes against the common narrative that you need a huge following to be successful.

I'm trying the 2-hour of deep work thing and I have to say that it's skyrocketing my productivity. I put my phone on airplane mode, lock myself in a small room and close the door. I'm so used to multitasking that I didn't realize how much it was holding me back.

Tonight I’m working on day 11 of my marketing challenge.

One person who tested it mentioned that they had signed up for a few accelerators but had never taken action like this.

Another one said it made them realize they needed to pivot the product.

Someone got their first (free) user.

In general everyone agrees that it’s tougher than what they expected.

I’ll try my best to finish and ship it by the end of the month.

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