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If you wish to make sure a specific item is alsways on you front page the best way is a custom block. In your admin/blocks you can create a new block. In this created block you set it to visible in the same page of a module that is your start page. A common approach is this:
Install News module
Set news module as the start page in general preferences
Go to admin blocks and Create a custom block to show in the news page
Manage this block in the future from the admin/blocks page. - you can reset it's position, visibility, title and edit it. be sure to set it's number in relation to where you want it to appear on your page. All you need to remember is what you called it.
So.. if Tiny content is set to be on your start page you can do the same. (I am not familiar with the module - tbut the process is the same) - it would be the same foe smart section too.
I have a welcome message block at the top of my start page - my start page is the news module.
HTH