How to Make Money with Your Favorite Homemade Recipes
Your recipes really can earn you an extra income when you combine them with the power of Squidoo.com.
Squidoo makes it easy to design (free) web pages (called lenses) about your favorite recipes. (or any other topic)
I'm a WAHMÂ (Work at Home Mom) who has been successfully earning money with my recipes for over two years now and I've decided to spill the beans and give you my recipe for successfully earning money using only Squidoo and a favorite recipe.
First, You'll Need to Grab a Squidoo Lens
If You're Already A Member You Can Skip This Part
The first step to making money with your recipe is to grab a Squidoo lens and to pick a great name for its URL address.Try to pick a basic name like:
http://www.squidoo.com/birthdaycupcakes
(Sorry, you can't have that one, it's already mine)
If you don't already have a Squidoo.com account, you can sign up for free, by clicking here.
Grab a Squidoo Lens
Sure, I'll get a bonus if you sign up through this link, but so will you. And once you have your own Squidoo account, you can ask people to join too!
(You see, we're making money already!)
Visit the Newbie Guide to Squidoo for more information about how to get started with your first lens.

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The 5 Most Important Ingredients To Make Money With Recipes
How to Enhance Your Chances of Making Money with Your Recipes
Once you have these 5 ingredients in place, feel free to further personalize and design your recipe lens and make it your own.
All of my recipe lenses are designed differently but they ALL contain these 5 ingredients.

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1. A Great Recipe
Your Own Homemade Recipe
Of course you'll need a great recipeThe most important thing on any recipe lens is a great home made (that means you own it) recipe. You can't just go willy nilly pulling recipes from published cookbooks, blogs, or other people's web sites.
Your recipe must be original. Plagiarism is not allowed, and violators will be penalized.
That said, we all know that many people make certain recipes in similar ways to many other people. Is that plagiarism? No. But copying somone else's work is!
No one can copyright the title of a recipe, so you are free to use any title you like but when it comes to giving the directions, you need to write your recipe down in your own words.
Sharing personal tips within the recipe itself is a helpful way of making sure that your recipes are written in your own words.
P.S. If you're planning to make a lens about your Mom's Famous Meatloaf recipe, it's probably a good idea to get her permission first too.
Read this great article to learn more about sharing recipes on Squidoo: Recipe Lenses on Squidoo - what are the copyright and potential TOS issues

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2. Amazon Modules
You Need to Sell Something Along Side Your Recipe
I've found the best modules to use for recipe lenses are the Amazon or Amazon spotlight modules. You can use others, I've just had the most success with these two.
The best things to sell are things that go well with your recipe that you can personally recommend.
Don't go crazy and put tons of merchandise on your lens.
I've noticed that my best earning lenses are the ones where I've featured only a few products that I really love.
Giada's Family Dinners
Amazon Price: $21.45 (as of 02/09/2010)![]()
This is an example of something I like to sell because it happens to be one of my favorite cookbooks.
I know it is a high quality book with beautiful pictures and easy to follow delicious recipes. When I talk about it on a lens I know what I'm talking about because I use this book all the time.
If you don't own the product you are promoting, reasearch the product so that you can tell your readers why you want that kitchen product.
Your knowledge and passion will show through in your writng, as will your ignorance. Taking a few minutes to study the merchandise will pay off royaly in royalties!
Cookbooks work well with food lenses but so do kitchen utensils and small appliances. Always choose products that are specific to your recipe.
3. Royalty-free Pictures
Show Off Your Homemade Recipe
Pictures of the food and ingredients will help make your recipe lens more appealing and appetizing to the general public.You can use photos that you've taken yourself or look for royalty-free photos online.
Be sure to use a Creative Commons search when looking for photos online. Stealing pictures is considered plagiarism too!
Allposters.com offers an affiliate program that you can join that works perfectly with your Squidoo lenses. You can find great pictures AND possibly make even more money from your lens.
When inserting Allposters.com pictures into a lens, the text/write module works best.
All of the photos found on this page were supplied by Allposters.com.
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4. Add a Link List
Add Links to Similar Homemade Recipes
By adding a link list, you're not only helping your readers find what they are looking for; you're also helping the search engines find your recipe page.
Here's an example: You'll notice that my links match the title of this lens.
- ? How To Make Money Selling Your Recipes | Top Work At Home Moms
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- How To Make Money Selling RecipesPractically everybody's got hundreds of recipes stashed away
somewhere. Why not sell 'em? So why don't you? The right way is
to run a small classified ad in any of the tabloid newspapers.
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5. Get the Word Out
Promote Your Homemade Recipe Page
After you've made your recipe lens be sure to get the word out about it. In order to earn money, your lens needs to be seen by as many people as possible.
Here's a few ideas for getting the word out about your recipe lenses.
*Email the link to your friends and family.
*Post your link at your blog or ask a good friend to do it for you.
*Join a food specific Squidoo Group.
*Talk about it at Squidu.
*Add your link to your signature line at forums you visit and on your outgoing email messages.
You can get started now by posting a link to your great new recipe lens right here!
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What's Your Secret Recipe for Success?
I Told You Mine . . .
Do you know any other ways to make money with your favorite homemade recipes? Please share them here.
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- StevenCousley StevenCousley Jan 26, 2010 @ 4:34 pm
- I can think of some other ways but I'm not ready to open a restaurant yet, there could be a lot of work involved. :)
Thanks for the tip on link lists and matching keywords. I haven't really used that module at all but now I can see a good reason to start.
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- ottoblotto ottoblotto Jan 26, 2010 @ 8:53 am
- I have shared a few recipes. They haven't made me any money, but I enjoyed doing them!!!
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- lasertek lasertek Jan 7, 2010 @ 8:50 pm
- Nice! This is a good idea for an extra income. I will tell my wife and my mother about this. Maybe they would be willing to share the family recipe and earn a few bucks out of it. 5*
Hope you could visit my lenses and this fb page. Thanks
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- Aika Aika Dec 18, 2009 @ 2:20 am
- This is a nice lens for those who loves to cook! I wish my mom could see this
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- prosperity66 prosperity66 Dec 6, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
- What a great interesting and informative lens!
Will definitely look into recipes... I tried so many!
Dom.
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