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!

PS send me an email if you would like to see an industy featured or if you have a business that you would like to brainstorm about. Each month I will feature one small business owner for FREE!

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 …

As Etsy sellers we are all looking for great Etsy shop ideas for our products and to help us make money. Since I had so many great tips and ideas for vintage Etsy sellers, I thought I would make a big, binge worthy “how to” marketing guide to get them in one handy dandy place! …

How to do a comprehensive marketing plan to get more leads! Marketing for real estate agents is much different than “regular” marketing. If you get this wrong you can waste a lot of time and money doing random bits and pieces, but never have an overall plan to actually get more buyers and sellers. By …

Understanding SEO is vital for bloggers. After obsessing about keywords for years, I have found 3 great tools and have some marketing tips for how to read and process the data for your WordPress blog or website! Includes Google Search Console, Keyword Hero and Serpstat. What I have found is that there are SO …

All of my best tips and ideas for a rocking New Years or January marketing campaign! Small business marketing ideas including themes, graphics, social media posts and content ideas to get your creative juices flowing. This is part of my seasonal marketing posts series that walks you through marketing ideas for a whole year! please …

As a creative small business owner there are many ways we can make money. Too many ways in fact! This worksheet will walk you through figuring out what your passions are and them combine them with income potential to see what you should be doing to grow your business. My Business Crisis I don’t know …