If you don’t have social sharing buttons on your blog, you make it difficult for your audience to spread your content to their social networks. Our quick tutorial below shows you how to get social media buttons for your WordPress blog with the Sexy Bookmarks WordPress plugin.

Do you have any questions about how to install the plugin? We’d love to help. Let us know in the comments!

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There are many other WordPress plugins that will pair nicely with Shareaholic to achieve your traffic goals. Here are 4:

1. Livefyre

Don’t make your readers think: Make it easy for them to engage with your content using a plugin that doesn’t require filling out a form to drop a comment. Livefyre is a comments plugin for WordPress that enables your readers to easily comment on your posts. Simple to install, Livefyre offers seamless usability and showcases the comments from your readers in an elegant way.

2. All-in-one SEO pack

Make your posts easy to discover. The All-in-One SEO pack helps you optimize your posts for on-page SEO, offering one easy place for you to add a page title, meta description and meta tags for each piece of content you create.

3. Editorial Calendar

Plan posts that your audience will love, and share. The editorial calendar plugin helps publishers organize content submitted from multiple writers, guest bloggers or employees. The drag-and-drop functionality makes it simple to re-schedule posts in drafts and publish them when you believe they will perform the best.

The WordPress Editorial Calendar Screen Cast from Zack Grossbart on Vimeo.

4. Max Buttons CTA Plugin

If you’re a publisher running a blog for a business, you want to drive your visitors to take an action based on the information you’ve given them in the post. A call-to-action button or CTA button is a great way to do this.

With a simple one-line piece of code, you can paste a call-to-action button right into your HTML tab at the bottom of your post.

What plugins do you use with Shareaholic? Let us know in the comments!

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With the holiday season around the corner, it’s that time of the year again to let your friends and family know what gifts are on your mind. Shareaholic has now made it easier to direct your friends and family towards exactly what you want.

Use Shareaholic’s Amazon Wish List integration with your browser plugin, and you can add your favorite products from anywhere on the web to your wish list right from Shareaholic.

First: Grab the right plugin for your browser. To add the Amazon Wish List to your list of social networks you’ll share to with your browser plugin, go to your Shareaholic profile page. (http://shareholic.com/yourusername.) Scroll down to “Services” and click “edit.”

Among the choices on the next page, you'll see a section labeled "Bookmarking." Select Amazon Wish List.

To make sure that the wish list shows up among your top choices when you shop, be sure to set your menu order so it’s among the top sites.

Shareaholic lets you add items to Amazon Wish List from just anywhere, so you don’t have to add additional buttons to the bookmarks bar in your web browser. Keep it simple, clean and tidy!

What products will you add to your wish list this holiday season? Let us know in the comments!

Startups are in a talent war.

Like star athletes being woo’d by recruiters, developers are highly-sought after team members. Attracting the right culture fit plus technical talent from college or corporate life is tough. It’s no wonder our fellow startups use a wide array of campaigns to draw in talent, from recruiters, $10,000 referral bonuses, $10,001 referral bonuses and even puppies.

We have a different philosophy. Rather than get you excited about a plethora of tangential perks, we want to you to be excited about what you’ll actually be doing every day as a member of our team. We have a big data content sharing system that reaches more than 250 million readers each month through our exploding publishers network of more than 200,000. The team is smart, scrappy and small – which means you’ll have a big voice in our direction and a huge opportunity for growth and leadership. Considering starting your own company one day? Come learn how to grow a business by joining our newly-funded rocketship.

We’re currently looking for:

Distribution Lead (Boston)

Senior Software Engineer (Boston)

Architect (New Delhi)

Want to learn more about what we’re up to and how you can be a part of it? Ping our CEO Jay Meattle at jaym@shareaholic.com with your favorite restaurant and he’ll buy you dinner and chat about the tough problems we’re tackling and opportunities ahead.

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.

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!

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.

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!

You can now share any page, anytime, from anywhere from Google Chrome using any of 80+ services including Twitter, Facebook, Google Gmail, Delicious, LinkedIn, FriendFeed, Bit.ly, etc. Use Shareaholic to make sharing online better, faster and easier — and dramatically enhance your productivity.

Click to Install Shareaholic for Chrome Now

Important note: You will need the latest developer builds of Chrome 4.0+ to run Shareaholic. To use extensions on the Mac you have to be using the latest build of Chromium (the newest dev build of Chrome for Mac doesn’t support extensions properly yet). We expect the regular version of Chrome to support extensions soon. In the mean time, if you’d prefer you can also use our bookmarklet – which works on all browsers.

Download and install the Chrome 4.0 Dev Channel: Windows | Mac | Linux 32-bit | Linux 64-bit

As always, if you have any suggestions whatsoever for improving the extension, do let us know! Follow @Shareaholic for product updates, tips and more.

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How do you use Shareaholic? We’d love to learn from you and share!

It’s not too late to get your own Shareaholic stickers! We still have lots more stickers in stock. If you’d like one, send us a self-addressed stamped envelope to our mailing address (below) and the sticker is yours. It’s that easy!

Jay Meattle
c/o I Want A Shareaholic Sticker!
32 River Street #2
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA