Tara Jacobsen

I love marketing and thinking of great ways to help people get more oomph for their efforts. Whether you want to know about niche marketing or branding or recommended vendors, stop back often to see some great ideas!

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If you are using Pinterest for marketing your Etsy shop or Shopify store, it is super important to track how many views (or hits) you are actually getting for your efforts. Tips and ideas for tracking your Pinterest traffic and how to know if what you are doing is working! This post contains affiliate links. …

Keeping up with age demographics for advertising is an ongoing process. With that in mind I periodically update this post with the best information that I can find! If you have any great data I am missing, please shoot me an email … tara(at)marketingartfully.com. This post was updated March 2019. Customer demographics are about how …

Today we are going to talk about doing a Pinterest audit for your Etsy store! Includes tips and ideas for setting up your profile, boards and what and how to pin to get more views to your Etsy shop. Great for Etsy sellers who want to add this super buyer friendly social media platform to …

Tips and ideas for doing affiliate marketing without having to pay to promote your links. How to make money on your links using Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, a blog and email marketing. Make passive income promoting products that you love! What Is Affiliate Marketing? Affiliate marketing is when you are recommending a product or service to …

I do a lot writing and helping to develop keywords and focuses for my business clients. While I have 17+ years experience of doing SEO work, sometimes it is just nice to have a starting point where you can set off from with your Adwords planning tool search or even just to figure out what …

Here are my top tips and ideas for doing an open house, as well as three open house sign in sheets! After having done 100 open houses in a year, I know that hosting open houses are a great lead generation tool for both buyer and sellers agents. My Open House Story When I started …

Looking for an awesome blogging plugin to make beautiful roundup posts, Create is your answer! My best tips and ideas in this small business marketing tutorial where I walk through making a “top posts and articles” list for my planner site! This plugin allows you to easily make a roundup post of your own or …

As a blogger sometimes you get complaints about too many ads on your site. Did you know you can use use div tags to exclude ads as a Mediavine publisher? Here is a step by step tutorial to walk you through spacing out your ads! Running Ads on Your Blog If you just want the …

With all the changes in shipping laws around the world, you may want to change the list of countries you will ship to for your Etsy shop listings. This brief tutorial will show you how to change your settings in your shop manager. Log Into Your Etsy Shop Manager & Click On Your Listings Tab …