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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In Pinterest Marketing Banner size matters! Today we are going to take a look at the different sizes and layouts for Pinterest pins and see what is working and how we can make our pins better. Note: My only reason for doing this is find out what size pins Pinterest likes right now. I do …

Today we are going to look at the differences between two different Pinterest Marketing Tools, Tailwind and Board Booster. Each does the scheduling and reporting of automated Pinterest pins in a very different way. I am using Tailwind exclusively now since Pinterest notified one of my clients that they were unhappy with her using BoardBooster. Neither …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Looking for help on how to set up your new Etsy seller site? You have come to the right place! Etsy sellers have been put on alert… there is a new Etsy seller site coming down the pipe on April 5th. While change is always weird, I have to say that I love this look …

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 …

Once you have done SEO for a while you can kind of, sort of figure out what keywords to use for a blog post. Now, don’t get me wrong, for important posts I make sure to check the Google Keyword Planner tool to make sure that I have the best version of a keyword to …

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 …