Shareaholic Blog » Jay Meattle http://blog.shareaholic.com Shareaholic's blog is full of blogging tips for bloggers, content marketers and digital journalists on how to create shareable content. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:24:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Post to Quora from Chrome http://blog.shareaholic.com/2011/12/post-to-quora-from-chrome/ http://blog.shareaholic.com/2011/12/post-to-quora-from-chrome/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:17:07 +0000 Jay Meattle http://blog.shareaholic.com/?p=3390

I’m please to announce that Shareaholic for Chrome now supports easy posting to Quora. Simply go to your service settings to enable! This functionality is available immediately.

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As a devout HackerNews reader and contributor (if you haven’t checked out HackerNews yet, you should), I am very excited about our latest product announcement today: Extended Share for YC’s Hacker News

One thing I have always missed on HackerNews was the ability to quickly share articles right from HackerNews — quickly. No more. From today, Shareaholic Chrome extension users will see the following Extended Sharing options automatically appear next to each HackerNews post:

This is a work in progress. We plan to add similar functionality to other similar sites. We love it, but we’d love your feedback! Thanks so much.

Next steps: Get Extended Share for YC HackerNews (Chrome Extension) | Settings

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Owing to popular demand and lots of feedback from you, we have added the Tweet Button in the Like Button Set in Shareaholic for WordPress.

Your readers can now share posts over Twitter with just a couple of single clicks! Update to the latest version of Shareaholic for WordPress to enable this today.

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You may have spotted the Shareaholic Top Bar in our latest release of Shareaholic for WordPress. If you haven’t already, do give it a try! We think you and your readers will love it.

Once enabled, as your readers read your posts, they will no longer have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the post to share it. With the Top Bar your readers will be clearly reminded to ‘Like’ on Facebook, ‘Send’ to Facebook, recommend the post through Google +1, share over Google+ or post to Twitter and as a result increase the social sharing activity for your content!

You can see the Top Bar in action on this very post itself by scrolling down.

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]]> http://blog.shareaholic.com/2011/12/web-browser-market-share-november-2011/feed/ 2 Shareaholic Closes Seed Funding; Now Reaching 250 Million Unique Visitors http://blog.shareaholic.com/2011/11/shareaholic-closes-seed-funding-now-reaching-250-million-unique-visitors/ http://blog.shareaholic.com/2011/11/shareaholic-closes-seed-funding-now-reaching-250-million-unique-visitors/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:27:17 +0000 Jay Meattle http://blog.shareaholic.com/?p=2669 The entire team at Shareaholic’s has been busy making loads of progress. Today, I am pleased to share a few amazing milestones:

Support for Tumblr

We are thrilled to announce official support for Tumblr. Our WordPress plugin has been downloaded over 1.4 million times, and starting today Tumblr owners can also make their posts shareable with Shareaholic! If you already have a Tumblr, get started here.

Shareaholic Growth

250+ Million

Shareaholic is now reaching 250 million people each month through our publisher network, APIs and browser extensions. We continue to hit new records each and every day. We send huge thanks to our community members for sharing content with Shareaholic and installing the publisher tools on your blog. We would not be where we are without you – so thanks!

Addition to Team Shareaholic!

Janet Aronica

I’m glad to welcome Janet Aronica to team Shareaholic! Janet is going to be spearheading marketing and community for us. We’re extremely lucky to have her. Make sure to follow her here, here and here.

Seed Funding Round

And last but certainly not least, I’m also very pleased to announce that we’ve closed a large seed round of financing for Shareaholic that will help us take our explosive upward momentum to the next level!

Our dream team of investors include General Catalyst Partners, Nextview Ventures, Boston Seed/Nicole Stata, Dave McClure (500 Startups), Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot), Stephano Kim (X+1), David Cancel (Compete, Performable), Brian Shin (Visible Measures), Prof. Ed Roberts (MIT Sloan, Sohu), Roy Rodenstein (HackerAngels), Jonathan Kraft (The Kraft Group), and more.

We’ve grown the company so far on a boot-strapped budget and with limited resources. We’ve achieved unbelievable progress, earning 2 million browser plugin installs and reaching more than 250 million visitors through hundreds of thousands of websites. This round will enable us to lay a solid foundation of building a game changing company by scaling our team and resources to expand on our current traction and growth.

Lots more to come!

From one-man-shop to a scrappy team of seven, our team is tackling interesting, fun challenges to create a better content sharing experience on the web. The team is growing fast. So if you’re interested in building an elegant and useful product that will reach hundreds of millions of users, please reach out.

]]> http://blog.shareaholic.com/2011/11/shareaholic-closes-seed-funding-now-reaching-250-million-unique-visitors/feed/ 3 Coming out of our shell; Additions to the team http://blog.shareaholic.com/2011/10/coming-out-of-our-shell-additions-to-the-team/ http://blog.shareaholic.com/2011/10/coming-out-of-our-shell-additions-to-the-team/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:47:47 +0000 Jay Meattle http://blog.shareaholic.com/?p=2380 Shareaholic is two years young. For much of this time we have kept mostly under the radar and heads down building. Here is our product report card thus far:

For the first year it was just me and contractors cranking out product, marketing, and distribution. We were intentionally super scrappy. Then all our incredible hard work started to pay big dividends towards the end of last year. We started to hit our stride. Our operating metrics started accelerating and beating all forecasts. Day after day we started setting new records (and continue to do so)!

To keep up with all this, in January, I opened an office in India and recruited some of the best. By the summer it was clear that the trajectory that Shareaholic found itself on dictated that we also start building the very best team in Boston. The timing was perfect.

Today, I am pleased to formally announce that our small team at Shareaholic is growing quickly and I could not be more excited to welcome William Sulinski and Robby Grossman to Team Shareaholic!

There is no greater feeling than having others believe in something you created and want to make it their own. I am honored and extraordinarily proud to stand alongside the incredibly smart and talented team of peers that now make up Shareaholic.

I love this Steve quote:

“Great things in business are never done by one person, they are done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs

Lots more to come! And yes, if you are looking to join a fast growing company, you should ping any one of us!

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You can utilize these analytics for business and competitive intelligence by understanding the sharing and social activities happening at any other websites in your industry. Discover and learn from what is working and what is not for any website.

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We’re now making these actionable analytics available to you so we can help you drive even more quality visibility, traffic, leads and views to your own websites and content!

Click the screenshot below to start exploring –

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