Anyone who’s a fan of Mad Men knows the challenges that Don Draper and his cronies sometimes face when pitching campaign ideas to clients. If you ever feel like Don Draper, trying to convince a reluctant client (or your boss) … Read more
Small Biz Social Friday: Twitter in 12 Minutes a Day
If you have even a passing interest in news about your industry or current events, Twitter is hard to resist. And unless you’re disciplined, you can find yourself clicking from link to link for hours on end. But to find … Read more
6 Ways to Leverage Your Facebook Cover Photo
For the past six weeks we’ve been using our Facebook cover photo to demonstrate fun ways to leverage the new cover photo rules. If you haven’t heard, a few months back Facebook relaxed their cover photo rules and now … Read more
3 Perfect-for-Summer App Ideas to Try in June
Creating seasonally inspired apps is a great way to keep your Facebook presence exciting, and bring your fans and followers coming back again and again. In Part 2 of our ongoing “app ideas” series, in which we give our users … Read more
Small Biz Social Friday: 6 Best Practices for Twitter
If you got your Twitter account set up last week, you might be wondering “Now what?!” For starters, don’t go too crazy trying to figure it all out. The best way to learn is to follow along and see what … Read more
8 Game-Changing ShortStack Resources
At ShortStack we work hard to produce a variety of content for our awesome users and fans. We get such great feedback, it’s hard to stop ourselves! You all inspire us to do and share more.
Since stepping up our … Read more
How to Make Awesome Quiz Apps with ShortStack — in 4 Steps
If you can remember grade school, you can probably recall those dreaded words from your teacher: “Class, we have a quiz today.” Undoubtedly her words elicited a unanimous groan. An online quiz seems to have the opposite effect, though – … Read more
Small Biz Social Friday: 6 Tips for Setting Up and Getting Started on Twitter
So you’ve conquered Facebook and started a blog. What’s next on your road to social media dominance? Twitter, of course! Twitter is sometimes described as a noisy cocktail party — so noisy, in fact, that it can be really … Read more
Guest post for Fast Company
Advice for Building a Global Tech Company in the Middle of Nowhere
A few years ago, when I was running a small web and graphic design company, my team created a simple software tool to help speed up our production. It was intended only for our staff’s use, but we realized almost immediately it would be useful to lots of other businesses.
Minutes after having an “Aha!” moment like that, plenty of developers would have packed up, moved to Silicon Valley, and gone looking for funding. I decided to not do that, partly because I had a young family and didn’t want to relocate, but also because it wasn’t a viable option. The cost of starting a business, hell, the cost of everything down there was just too much.
From Zero to +51K Clicks: How One ShortStack Designer Made His App a Viral Hit
Social Media 180 is a digital agency — and ShortStack Master – that develops cutting-edge social apps with a primary focus on promotions that drive Likes, shares, email signups, engagement and produce a solid return on investment for their … Read more
