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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Here are 50 of the best kinds of postcard ideas that work. You can send them out to your clients, prospects and past clients to generate leads and make more sales. Whether you are prospecting buyers, sellers, expireds, first time homebuyers or just need some messages to send, this is the post for you! One …

Pinterest can be super confusing for Etsy sellers! You know social media is supposed to drive this flood of views, but there is really nowhere that shows you how to do it from start to finish in a way that will make your time worth it… until now! Here are 5 tips and ideas to …

Tips and ideas for minding your work time. Strategies for how to schedule your activities and priorities for small business owners. Howdy! Today I am talking out loud to myself about time management and being busy and thought I would bring you along for the ride! Have you ever thought to yourself, “I am just …

If you are thinking about having ads on your site, I am sure you have heard about RPM (revenue per thousand views) and may be wondering how much you could make on your traffic. When I was thinking about doing ads I kept looking for real numbers, but all I heard was, “it depends on …

After avoiding putting ads on my website for 10 YEARS, I finally took the leap and did it. Here are my best tips and ideas for deciding whether you should consider pay per view as a way to earn money from your website visits! My Website Ads Story I don’t think I can talk about …

I love finding great Etsy tools and resources that can help me and my peeps really rock our Etsy shops! I put a call out in some of the groups that I follow and am sure that I will get more and more suggestions as this post goes along! Updated 12/28/2018 If you have a …

When you are a small business owner, answering the question of what are important customer demographics can make or break your marketing efforts. Customer Demographics are defined by Wikipedia as including “gender, race, age, income, disabilities, mobility (in terms of travel time to work or number of vehicles available), educational attainment, home ownership, employment status, …

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 …