Network Solutions State of Small Business published a report recently about the effect social media has on traditional websites. Mainly, it talks about how social media is changing spending plans on traditional websites for small businesses. The majority aren’t changing any of their spending plans, but almost 10% are planning on eliminating or spending less [...]

You should constantly be updating your feeds (Twitter, blog, YouTube, etc.) even if no one is reading them (your content will come up in searches when people are looking for information and if you post relative updates then your business will be more likely to get new customers and fans). Feeds are important, important, important. [...]

According to a study conducted by ExactTarget and CoTweet, users say that social networking sites Facebook and Twitter are increasing their social interactions that they have with their friends in person. A smaller percentage of people said that there social interactions were waning because of Facebook and Twitter while the majority of people said that [...]

Giving virtual gifts is extremely popular on Facebook. Just to give you an idea of how popular it is, social goods and services raked in over $2 billion in 2008 and those are paid goods and services. Imagine what unpaid gifts could do for your business. They wouldn’t make you money directly but they will [...]

Adam Blake of Hubspot discusses how you can be the first result in Google in a matter of minutes – all you have to do is post an update on Twitter. It sounds strange, I know, and I was extremely skeptical of this also. After looking into it however, I am convinced that this could [...]

When you are using the Links Widget in ShortStack, you may notice that you can create links with clickable images instead of just using text. This may be hard for many of our users though that don’t have appropriate images for their links. RSS, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, WordPress and Digg images can be hard to [...]

Are you tired of some unknown entity controlling the Mayoral position at your business? Foursquare is now giving business owners the ability to impeach those check-in cheaters, allowing the prestigious title to go to someone who deserves it, Brenna Ehrlich of Mashable reported. “If a Mayor is flagged by a business owner, they’ll be removed [...]

Not only was ShortStack built to allow anyone to build a Facebook tab quickly and easily but it was also built to get all of your important information in one place, making it easier for your fans, followers and customers to get the content that they require. In an age where everything is fast and [...]

Group gifting has been around ever since the stone age. When a clan wanted to get the chief a new spear then they would all contribute and that spear would be the greatest spear in the entire clan. This form of gift giving isn’t very popular though since one person always gets stuck making the [...]

A new feature that we are excited to give to our users is the Google Analytics widget. All you have to do is create a Google Analytics account, if you don’t already have one, and then create a new profile in order to get the required UA code (you need one UA code per website/Facebook [...]

The social check-in battle is heating up now that Facebook is updating “Places.” This update will allow iPhone users to check-in at a Place and then have to option to check-in the friends that they are with, Josh Constine of InsideFacebook.com reported. They can also take photos while at the Place and upload them to [...]