Is Facebook ‘Dead’ for the Small Business Owner? – The Huffington Post
The most shocking stats are the loss in the teenage demographic (a staggering three million teens in the U.S. alone) and the gain in the older demographics.

The tablet market is slowing — long live the smartphone –  USA TODAY
there are increasing signs that the tablet market, while still growing, is starting to slow.

5 Ways to See How New Customers are Finding Your Business – Constant Contact
Most customers, especially happy ones, are willing to let you know how they ended up on your website or at your front door.

One Simple Tip to Avoid Confusion for Customers Using PayPal – LexiConn
When a customer enters a ship to zip / postal code in the shopping cart that does not match the ship to zip code saved in their PayPal account, this stock warning message appears in the shopping cart.

ShopSite Announces Version 12 is PCI Compliant – ShopSite, Inc.
ShopSite version 12 has been audited and passed validation for the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS)

3 Key Business Marketing Trends for 2014 – Small Business Trends
the shine of social media has lost a bit of its luster.

6 Tips for Marketing to Millennials – Practical Ecommerce
Millennials are the roughly 65 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 34, a coveted demographic for brands and merchants.

Holiday sales rise 2.3%, online Christmas spending up 16.5% – LA Times
On Christmas Day alone, online sales surged 16.5% year over year, according to IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark.

2 Trap Doors That Can Derail Your Business In 2014 – Constant Contact
When one of your competitors creates something unique and different about their business, your natural tendency may be to do one of two things:

1. Copy or imitate the improvement
2. Attempt to incrementally improve upon what they just created

How to get more retweets: USE CAPITAL LETTERS – CNET
Another quite moving conclusion is that Sunday is not a day of rest, nor merely a day of worship. It is the day when more people retweet than any other.

10 SURPRISING SOCIAL MEDIA STATISTICS THAT WILL MAKE YOU RETHINK YOUR SOCIAL STRATEGY – Fast Company
THE FASTEST GROWING DEMOGRAPHIC ON TWITTER IS THE 55–64 YEAR AGE BRACKET.

16 Free Online Tools for Small Businesses – Practical Ecommerce
Here is a list of online productivity tools for small businesses. There are apps for collaboration, accounting, scheduling, development, customer management, general office tasks, and more.

Distinction — Make It Your Secret Weapon in 2014 – Constant Contact
The mistake happens when we overlook, or fail to clearly define, all of the distinctively awesome things we do.

Quick Thinking Helps Our Ecommerce Merchant Cash In on Good Morning America – Lexiconn
One of our ecommerce ShopSite merchants was recently featured on Good Morning America’s Deals and Steals segment.  It often results in tens of thousands of visitors in a short period of time, and hundreds to thousands of sales in just a few hours.

Introducing ShopSite Version 12 – ShopSite
Here are a few of the most anticipated features released in ShopSite’s version 12