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Squidoo Queen - Making Money On Squidoo The Easy Way
There are literally thousands of ways to make money online, some good, some bad and some just plain stupid. Squidoo is without doubt one of the best and easiest ways to make money with. In this lens I want to show you just how powerful it can be and how you can use Squidoo to start making a few extra dollars a month or turn it into a full time marketing business.
Let me just get this part out of the way now so that you don't waste your time reading if this is not for you. Making money online takes time, patience and dedication. You are required to work, yes - work!
Deciding to work from home can be very rewarding but it can also mean you need to learn a few new disciplines. Keeping the TV switched off, letting people know that you are working and not available for coffee or just managing not to try and fit the housework in when you should be working.
If you are sure that you can spare at least a few hours each week then I have some really GREAT news for you. Any work that you do now, can end up making you money for many, many months to come! Hopefully it doesn't sound all that bad now :)
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** Update **
Squidoo Queen has evolved through out my journey and will continue to do so. At the moment we are on the forth edition and the latest version is due for release VERY soon - check back here for more updates as they happen.
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Squidoo And Affiliate Marketing - The Basics
Master The Basics And The Rest Follows Naturally
I expect many of you will already know what affiliate marketing is, if you don't you can read about affiliate marketing here. The biggest problem that people have is trying to find ways of promoting products (both their own and affiliate ones) and getting people to see these products.Many sites wont let you use affiliate links, others make it difficult for you - at Squidoo they allow you to do it! So not only are you allowed to create your own advertising space on the net totally free, you are able to make money through it too.
Although they allow you to do all this, you must respect the fact that you need to play by their rules, this means that certain topics are off limits and your lenses should be well thought out and helpful to the reader.
Even though Squidoo offers you a revenue share on each of your lenses, it would be a lot harder to build a lens that makes you significant income this way. Note that I say 'harder' and not impossible.
For me though, Squidoo is a fantastic tool for affiliates. Although I create information products to help people place all the information they need together, I am still an affiliate marketer. Teaching is my hobby and I do it because I am passionate about it. The fact that I can get paid for my hobby is a plus.
Keep reading to find out how YOU can use Squidoo to make money as an affiliate.
Squidoo - The Basics
You might be asking yourself how Squidoo can help an affiliate marketer, or any marketer for that matter. Looking at 'what' Squidoo can do for you first is the best place to start.
- Offer You A Free Web Page On The Internet
- Lets You Place Your Affiliate Products In Front Of The People That Want To See Them
- Gives You A Search Engine Friendly Page That's Easy To Use
- Let's You Use It's Rank With Google To Get Lots Of Free Traffic
- Even Shares It's Revenue With You
With such a HUGE amount of benefits it should be becoming more apparent by the second just HOW powerful Squidoo can be for your marketing.
What To Do If You Have Not Made A Penny Online Yet
Even Squidoo Queen makes mistakes!
The main question that I get asked is "I've never made a penny online yet - why will Squidoo be any different?" My response is generally that marketing in any form is a learning experience. Most people can relate to the following:- Hear about someone else making money online
- Decide to have a go yourself
- Read on the internet about it
- Buy a few products
- Give them a go
- Get sucked in by 'the next big thing'
- Read some more
- Buy some more
- Try some more
- Rinse and repeat
You end up going round in circles and getting nowhere fast! In the end you start to doubt yourself. You doubt sales pages even more until you either settle for the few dollars you might make a month or quit. I actually did this for over a year before I realised that I was never going to get very far.
Here's the secret ........
Never give up - Don't go from one program to the next without mastering the basics of marketing first.
Learning From Your Mistakes
If you have been getting no results from the methods that you have been using, then why continue to do the same thing? After all, if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got!
To this day I make mistakes, I take the mistakes and work out where I went wrong and realise that I have learnt something from it - therefore it's just a learning curve.
One of the biggest mistakes that I made was Squidoo Queen (the name - not the product). Once I had written Squidoo Queen, I had to test it to make sure that it would live up to my claims. I took a small group of people to use as guinea pigs and once they had gone through the course - it was the group that decided to call me Squidoo Queen - it stuck!
At the time I never realised how bad this would be for me long term! I am no Guru and I had no idea about 'branding' etc. I now know that I should have been Kelly Stone from day one. When I first released Blog Traffic Unleashed - Nobody knew who it was by!
I do not think I am royalty and I know that I am not the worlds best Squidoo lensmaster - But I DO get results. I learnt a good lesson and wont make the same mistake twice.
Can I Really Make Money With Squidoo?
The Top Earners Have Something In Common
The next most common question that I am asked about Squidoo is "Can I really make money with Squidoo?" I can say that you can make a lot of money with Squidoo if you put your mind to it and follow the basic steps of marketing.I cannot guarantee that you WILL make money. After all, you are the only person who can answer that. If you know that you are the kind of person that only gives a half hearted attempt, then you are only going to get half hearted results (if you're lucky).
Following the advice above, if you are prepared to work at it, keep with it and really dedicate time and effort to your marketing, then there is no reason why YOU wont earn money with Squidoo.
Once you look around Squidoo and see who is making money here, you will start to see a trend - they all have one thing in common - Quality Lenses!
They build them, they work on them, they test them, they tweak them - in fact, they do everything that it takes to make their lenses profitable.
Why could YOU not do the same?
Visit the Squidoo Queen website or my Marketing Blog for even more information on Squidoo.
You Can Learn A Lot More About Squidoo
Kelly Stone Marketing Blog
If you want to find out more about Squidoo and what it takes to make money with it, I strongly recommend that you read my marketing blog. It's got a whole section on Squidoo and covers lots of basic marketing strategies - For Free!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byLet Me Know What You Think
Just saying 'Hi' is fine too
I love to hear about other Squidoo members and what they are up to. Leave me a message here and let me know what you think - But please don't put links in them (I will remove them).
If you have any advice you want to share, a top tip, secret methods or just some common sense based advice - do it here.
CBHUNT wrote...
You have made a nice lens. Rated it. Check out my lens on Clickbank RSS Feeds combined with the Squidoo RSS module, Twitter and Blogs.
http://www.squidoo.com/clickbank-rss-feed
Posted June 15, 2009
moneymaking12345 wrote...
hey there great lens would you mind checking mine out see if i am doing ok?
http://www.squidoo.com/Maverick-Money-Maker-Review
Posted March 18, 2009
Catherine53 wrote...
Hello Kelly-I got here!! I do have a Page that I made once-but I had no Idea what to do with it or Organise it properly. At last there is someone (You) who can teach me how to do things properly! As you advised me-I will be taking a look around here to see how things are done -because I am only an Amateur Interneter!
Thanks for the Invite-Kelly.
Regards,
Catherine.
Posted February 18, 2009
robby1 wrote...
Hi Kelly,
I'm so glad I found your site. I purchased your ebook and am delighted with it. I've never Squidood before, but I'm having fun learning.
Robin
Posted February 04, 2009
robby1 wrote...
Hi Kelly,
I'm so glad I found your site. I purchased your ebook and am delighted with it. I've never Squidood before, but I'm having fun learning.
Robin
Posted February 04, 2009
IsabelR wrote...
I agree with you when you said that you should have used your name before "Squidoo Queen" - I can understand what big difference it makes.
Thanks for a wonderful Lens.
Posted November 12, 2008
Jim10 wrote...
Hi Kelly I just signed up to get your squidoo Queen ebook or whatever it is. I never heard of burn marketing but I have been making some lens and hubpages fro a while. Hopefully it will help me do better.
Posted September 26, 2008
sandyspider wrote...
I can see why you are called the Squidoo Queen. Love your work.
Posted September 25, 2008
sandyspider wrote...
My problem is that I do too many things at once and never finish any of them. You give some good advice.
Posted September 23, 2008
MayaLuna wrote...
Great Lens - I found my way here via a post on the Warrior Forum.
So many people think they can make money online without any effort whatsoever so it's refreshing to see you telling the truth about needing to put in some time and effort.
Posted September 20, 2008
ChristiannaGarrett-Martin wrote...
I have Squidoo Queen amongst other things from you They are all brilliant tools! and thankyou Kelly, for all your help and advice too :)
Christianna.
Posted August 18, 2008
RentMyGarden wrote...
Hi Kelley Stone,
I really like your honesty. I am so glad you tell it like it is! Making money online takes a time commitment, patience, dedication, self discipline, focus and effort. Thanks for keeping it real. Wishing you continual Squidoo Queen success.
Posted July 08, 2008
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