November 2011
3 posts
When I talk about my Top 5 SEO small business marketing tips, I am referring …http://marketingartfully.com/2011/01/04/top-5-seo-small-business-marketing-tips/ http://bit.ly/sza29A
Doing a search on customer demographics seemed so easy. I just wanted to know, “where do customers come from in 2011″. I was thinking of things like the internet, email, referrals, advertising, etc…http://marketingartfully.com/2011/11/17/customer-sources-where-do-customers-come-from-2011/ http://amplify.com/u/a1ipmm
September 2010
1 post
Facebook Business Pages How To Have A Custom Page →
Facebook Business Pages have come a long way and having a custom page is starting to be as important as having a website or blog! Custom business page design can be hard or easy depending on your level of technical ability. Here are a couple of different ways to make a custom page from easy to hard!
August 2010
10 posts
Hot Small Business Marketing Help →
Hot Small Business Marketing Help is a mix of the latest posts that we just LOVE, selected resources that we think are hot and a mix of our products and affiliate products that we recommend. This is meant to be an overall resource for small business, entrepreneur and realtor marketers.
Burning Your List - Mobile, Email, Twitter or... →
Burning your list means that you oversaturate your message to a group of people. I am here to tell you that a list of people who have said you can contact them on a regular basis is a beautiful thing to waste.
Online Marketing - Internet Leads ARE Real Leads →
I am just going to say this once, online leads are REAL leads! Not all of them, but enough to make your online marketing efforts worthwhile. Today I thought I would share some success stories with you.
Realtor Marketing - Realtor Newsletter Ideas →
Because I help so many Realtors with their marketing efforts, I KNOW that generating a monthly newsletter can seem like an overwhelming task. Here are my best Realtor Newsletter Ideas, in no particular order.
Social Media - Facebook Changes Business Pages →
Social media marketing is a moving target. Just when you get something done, they change the rules. This time Facebook has changed the size of the area you have to use on your custom business pages!
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How To Find Your Small Business Passion →
Finding your passion is all the rage today. You are supposed to get out there and start doing what you are put on this earth to do. Problem is, most people do not know what their small business passion is!
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Small Business & Entrepreneur Marketing Focus →
Having a small business marketing focus is the one thing that will increase your chances for success dramatically! The business owners and entrepreneurs who are clear about their products and services will succeed every time over someone with a great idea but no goals.
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Small Business Internet Marketing Tools →
Small business internet marketing tools can make your life SO much easier. In this post I am going to review a few of my favorite tools that I use for my business or my customers.
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Email Marketing Writing Great Subject Lines →
Email marketing seems like a breeze. All the top people are telling you to just grow a list, send out emails to it and watch checks start rolling in. Well, writing great email headlines or subject lines will add to your success.
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How To Get More Twitter Followers 2010 →
Twitter marketing IS easier with lots of followers. The more people who are on your Twitter list, the more chance you have of one of them doing something you want! So here it is, how to get more Twitter followers.
July 2010
6 posts
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Direct Sales MLM Case Study - Green Cleaning... →
Being a small business owner is sometimes a challenge. Knowing where to spend your time and what to spend your money on marketing-wise can take some thought. One of our MLM or Direct Sales Marketing clients who is rocking her marketing is Rae Ann Dougherty of Green Cleaning Products!
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Facebook Marketing Making Lists →
Facebook marketing becomes MUCH easier for small business owners when you have lists of your friends segregated. These are all practical working suggestions for what to do on Facebook!
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Social Media Marketing Twitter Events →
Social media marketing with twitter events is an easy and FREE way to get your event message out there AND to let your attendees know about what is going on in and around your venue.
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Small Business Customer Demographics →
Knowing which customer demographics are right for your small business can make or break your marketing campaigns. Always make sure you know who you are targeting!
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Small Business Affiliate Partner Programs →
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Small Business Affiliate Programs An Overview →
Small business owners rarely understand online marketing’s affiliate programs. They are more comfortable with the idea of referrals or small business partnership programs. Here is a basic overview of how internet marketing affiliate programs work and how you could incorporate them into your small business.
June 2010
6 posts
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Keyword Marketing Capitalize On Current Events →
Keyword marketing has reached a new level and super exiting level. ANYONE can rank on page one in Google for a search term that thousands are searching for if they capitalize on current events.
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Blogging Success Stories for Small Biz →
Blogging success can sometimes be hard to judge and having goals is vital to knowing whether you are doing well or just spinning your wheels.
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How DISC Personality Types Affect Customer Service... →
Your DISC personality type affects what your customer service models are and how we can use them to our advantage. When it comes to customer service for our small businesses though, oftentimes we throw that information out the window and forget it!
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How To Get Paid For Speaking My Top Ten Tips →
How to get paid for speaking courses are a dime a dozen. Each week I get an email or two that tells me that if I send them a hundred or a thousand bucks I will get all the information that I need to get paid as a speaker. Well I have yet to fine one that tells the truth about what it takes to actually succeed.
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Features Versus Benefits Part Deux →
My features versus benefits post asking whether you are selling the steak or the sizzle is one that pops up quite a bit on my google analytics. It seems like every small business marketer has struggled at one time or another with trying to figure out what is a feature and what is a benefit.
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How To Write and Promote A Micro Magazine →
A month ago I had no idea how to write a micro magazine, although I did know how to promote it if one should magically appear. Here are the hows and whys of my brand new How To Marketing micro magazine!
May 2010
5 posts
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Twitter Marketing for Small Business Goes... →
I frequently talk to my small business owners about fun twitter marketing things we can do. The normal response is glazed eyes and protestations that it will not work for them! Today, the New York Times had a GREAT article about small business owners who are leveraging twitter to gain market share – Twitter for small business marketing has FINALLY gone mainstream.I frequently talk to my small...
Do URL Keywords Matter To Google? →
Does using URL keywords help drive organic traffic from google and other search engines is on my mind today. The URL keywords efficiency at getting google to notice a website is controversial but REALLY interesting.
Difference Between Small Business Websites Versus... →
I spend A LOT of time trying to explain small business websites versus wordpress blogs to people. There are some major differences that matter to your web success so here is the difference for the final time!
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Outsourcing Marketing Do Inane Comments and Spam... →
Outsourcing is a great way to leverage yourself. Hiring a company or people to help is often the only way to advance your business beyond what you are capable of doing time wise or talent wise. BUT do inane comments and spam emails REALLY work?
Taking Advantage Of Trends On Google →
Taking advantage of trends on google is a great way to get increased traffic to your website! Here is how a website took advantage of the new iPad launch to get increased traffic to their website from google.
April 2010
3 posts
Marketing Artfully on Facebook →
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Watchgary:
My appearance on CNBC the day before Twitter announced its monetizing plan Would love to get your thoughts on the interview and on what Twitter actually has done ? twitter’s play
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Interesting article about nerds taking over...
flatacre:
Are Nerds Taking Over Advertising? - Flatacre http://ow.ly/1yiBw
February 2010
1 post
New Business Denver Features Tara Jacobsen of... →
SO EXCITED to have twitter tweety birds all over me in public…:)
January 2010
4 posts
How To Optimize Your Blogs Most Visited Pages (day... →
Great post by guest author Michael Martine (my favorite blogger guru!)
So apparently I am a goober
Supposedly Tumblr is super easy to use and I am just a goober - anyone have good tips on how to get started with this bad boy fast?!??!?
Thanks…:) Tara
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“Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.”
– Anonymous
Means or End?
This is SO neat! Check out how the unexpected had to have had made people’s head turn!!!
justingerhardt:
Check out these ads for the Copenhagen Zoo.
I love advertising like this—a refusal to march lock-step with the status quo.
If advertising is putting up a billboard, then hey—put up a billboard and call it a day. But if advertising is communicating a message in a way that gets...
December 2009
5 posts
Small Business Internet and Realtor Marketing On... →
Love to have you stop by and see the latest good marketing info!
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Gary Vaynerchuk is ruining my life! →
The stupid crush it guy is ruining my life - I have been listening to him all day and the stuff he says makes so much sense that I have taken my ridiculously large internet domination plan to a new level.
And now I am on the Tumblr too…I don’t get it but figure it can’t hurt…:)
No body knows...
SO FUNNY - I have like a gagillion people in my gmail account (I have had it since they first let you get one) and not ONE person was on tumblr….:) Either that means I am cool and cutting edge or it means that friends are nerds!
Watchgary:
Is Effort enough to Scale? I think way too many people don’t think a person, or a personal brand or even a consumer brand can scale but I think effort is massively under rated, what do you guys think?
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I think that there is a fine line - I am super available when I have the time scheduled for it and for my family, clients and...
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Marketing Artfully →
Marketing for entrepreneurs, small business owners and realtors! Up to the minute info on the latest marketing that catches my attention.