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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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When you are doing direct sales marketing you actually have three kinds of customers and to be a successful consultant you need to be focused on each of those in marketing efforts. The three areas of marketing are: Recruiting new consultants Finding hostesses to hold parties Selling retail products What I find is that most …

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updated March 15, 2019 I LOVE collecting great free marketing tools and hacks that Etsy sellers can use to promote and grow their shops! This list includes some of my all time favorite tools that I use regularly for my shop! Related Post: BIG LIST of Etsy Tools & Resources (50+ and counting now!) Fotofuze …

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I fought using a blog planner for years. I thought I could keep a list (somewhere) or use the drafts in my WordPress (loser) and not have to be tied down to just a few blog posts that I HAD to write. Then I made my own blog planner and wah, wah, everything became wonderful in my blogging …

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As a social media dweeb, I see lot of Pinterest Marketing Fails, but the one that hurts my heart is when bloggers deliberately make their posts “unpinnable” by having tiny little pictures. There are many hard core bloggers out there who are rocking the SEO world. They are writing long, thoughtful posts and doing a …

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Today’s post is about advanced blogging and how to make a roundup post that is super sharable on social media sites. If you are thinking about kicking your blogging up to the the advanced level (like a post a day), the first thing that comes to mind is, “how I am going to produce all …

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Today I am going to be talking about “flat lay” photography. This is where you put the item(s) to be photographed on a flat surface and shoot directly down at them. I am super interested in Flay Lay for my GlamorouslyVintage Instagram where I post food photography pics. These are 10 super awesome flat lay …

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