Promote Your Real Estate Business for Free with Squidoo SquidZipper Lenses
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Attract Highly Targeted Leads with SquidZipper
Learn how the SquidZipper MagicBuilder can create a free webpage for your real estate agency or business in just minutes!
So, What the Heck is a SquidZipper?
Squidoo Editor-in-Chief Megan Casey Explains...
Here's a quick overview about why you need a Zippers page of your very own, how to get started, where to get help, and of course, some great examples from fellow Realtors.-
Welcome, Realtors!
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Here at Squidoo, we just launched Squidzippers.com, a new site that makes it easy to become the local, trusted expert in your community. Shhh...don't tell. You guys and gals (Realtors, that is) have the exclusive right now. Here's a quick overview...
Are You Looking for Real Estate Clients?
Real Estate SquidZipper Lenses
Check Out These Lenses Created by Real Estate Professionals
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Doug Garner's page about Northern Kentucky
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I'm a realtor here in Independence, KY specializing in Buying, Selling, Commercial, Condos, Residential, Investment Properties, and Development. My goal with this page is to share my personal take on living and working in Independence, KY, and to give...
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John Casey's page about San Diego, CA
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I'm a commercial real estate broker here in San Diego, CA. My goal with this page is to share my personal take on living and working in San Diego, and to give you a place to sound off on your favorite places around town, too. So first, here's a littl...
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Gene Carey's page about Grayslake, IL
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I'm a Realtor® here in Grayslake, IL specializing in Buying, Selling, Residential, and Investment Properties. My goal with this page is to share my personal take on living and working in Grayslake, IL, and to give you a place to sound off on your favo...
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Barbara Abe's page about Real Estate in Hawaii Kai, East Oahu, Honolulu, Hawaii
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I'm a Realtor here in Hawaii Kai specializing in Residential Buying and Selling. My goal with this page is to share my personal take on living and working in Hawaii Kai, East Oahu, Honolulu, HI, and to give you a place to sound off on your favorite pl...
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Pasco Washington 99301
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Pasco Wa | Franklin County | Joe and Colleen Lane | We are Realtors here in Pasco, WA specializing in Buying, Selling, Commercial, Condos, Residential, Investment Properties, and Vacation Homes. Our goal with this page is to share a practical take on...
How About You...
Get Started with the Step-By-Step Guide
Here's my favorite link:
Create Your Page
Click here to build your FREE SquidZipper lens, and promote your real estate business or agency in just 5 easy steps.
www.mayorofyourzipcode.com
10 Tips to Build Your First SquidZipper Lens
- All you need is a zip code to begin. Enter a zip code and hit Build it!
- It's fine to completely ignore questions 1-9 on the MagicBuilder. Answer any that apply and select MagicBuild my Page!
- Don't worry about content yet... just choose I want it!
- Pick your url and hit Continue.
- Type the word that appears and hit Continue.
- Edit your lens title at the top of the page and hit Save.
- The MagicBuilder will provide several modules for you. Delete any you don't want, scroll back to the top of your lens, and choose Save Draft. Your lens is now saved and ready to edit whenever you like. It won't be live until you publish it.
- Go through your Workshop Tools on the right side of the page. This is where you'll edit your author bio, upload a photo, add up to 40 tags, choose lens settings, and specify royalty settings. After entering new information, be sure to choose Save Draft to update your lens.
- Now you're ready to edit your lens and add content. Just get the basics down for now with an intro (including a photograph) and a few modules. You can always add more modules later. Be sure to visit other SquidZipper lenses for ideas and inspiration. When you're satisfied, hit Publish and your lens will be ready for viewing and further editing.
- Overwhelmed? Why not hire a professional lensmaster to build your first lens? For just $25, lensmaster ThomasC will build a basic SquidZipper lens for you. Check out SquidBuilders.com for details, and visit ThomasC Lensography to see samples of his top-notch lenses.
Make a Profit with Your SquidZipper Lenses
Earn Money for Yourself and for Charity
To increase your SquidZipper's earning potential, simply include some money-making modules, like Amazon, CafePress, and Zazzle. Samples of these modules are shown below. This is strictly optional—if your objective is to attract leads, a SquidZipper lens will work fine without money-making modules. You can also add them at a later time. That's the beauty of Squidoo!One of my favorite ways to monetize SquidZippers is with the Images of America books produced by Arcadia Publishing. I have several of these books in my own library, and often give them as gifts. Arcadia Publishing produces several other series that might also work for SquidZipper lenses, including Postcards of America, Then and Now, Campus History, and Corporate History. Some of these may be difficult to detect with the Amazon 'search' feature. For example, SquidZipper lenses featuring Washington, D.C. could include books about Capitol Hill, Georgetown University, and the Mayflower Hotel. I have better luck finding selections on the Arcadia Publishing Website and then searching for those particular titles directly from the Amazon module.
An Images of America author spotted his book on one of my notary SquidZipper lenses and thanked me for using it. That was pretty exciting!
Arcadia Publishing's Images of America Series
Images of America Books on Amazon
More Than 5,000 Titles Available from Arcadia Publishing
Source: Arcadia Publishing
Lighthouses and Life-Saving on the Oregon Coast (OR) (Images of America)
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 11/25/2009) 
Center City Philadelphia in the 19th Century (PA) (Images of America)
Amazon Price: $17.15 (as of 11/25/2009)
Long Beach Art Deco (CA) (Images of America)
Amazon Price: $15.59 (as of 11/25/2009)
Add Merchandise with a CafePress Module
Here's Fargo...
I Love Fargo Women's T-Shirt
Price: 20.99
Messenger Bag
Price: 22.99
Fargo or Bust! Teddy Bear
Price: 17.99
Can't Find Your City?
Create Your Own CafePress Shop!
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How to Run a Successful CafePress Shop (and make lots of money!)
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CafePress is THE online place to become your very own entrepreneur quickly and easily. All you need is a computer, Internet connection, and a graphics program, and you are on your way to making major money! Get all the CafePress goodness...
Can't Find What You Need?
Create Your Own Zazzle Shop!
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Zazzle 101 ... How to make a profit on Zazzle
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Zazzle is one of the Print-on-demand companies out there that allows people to design & sell their own creations. I love Zazzle's ease of use, friendly staff, and the fact that I can make money on my art. I've put together this comprehe...
Add Images to Your Lenses with AllPosters
Choose From a Variety of City and Real Estate-Related Posters
Make More Than One
If your real estate business covers multiple zip code areas, make lots of SquidZipper pages—one for each zip code. Why not? It's FREE, attracts customers for your business, and earns money for you and charity.
www.mayorofyourzipcode.com
Add Your SquidZippers to Popular Groups
Here are a few places to start...
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Squid Zippers Headquarters
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Squid Zippers The best SquidZipper lenses...ever!
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Home, Garden, & Anything Housing Headquarters
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Home, Garden, & Anything Housing Give us your lens on the home, garden, housing, decorating, real estate, etc. We'll even take your cooking lenses, that's if you are cooking at home! Family friendly only please!
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Commercial Real Estate Group ~ Just for Commercial Agents Headquarters
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Commercial Real Estate Group ~ Just for Commercial Agents While there are a lot of business groups on Squidoo and even groups specifically for real estate agents, the commercial real estate agents really need to have a place all of their own. If you...
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Squidoo-It-All Headquarters
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Squidoo-It-All :: Join the Fun! Anything and everything can be squidoo'd! Sign In and Tell Us About Yourself, Your Squidoodlin's! BIG NEWS: Headquarters is cooking up something to make groups BETTER THAN EVER! LET'S SHOW THE WORLD YOUR BEST SQUIDO...
Still Struggling?
Don't Worry... Your Fellow Lensmasters Are Happy to Help
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SquidU's Lensmaster Lounge: Help for New Squids
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Newbies! Need help with Squidoo? Choose "SquidU" from "Squidlinks" up top to visit Squidoo's members discussion forum, aka The Lensmaster Lounge. SquidU contains many kinds of resources to help you learn Squidoo. The Lensmast...
What's the Buzz on SquidZipper?
Here's What Bloggers are Saying About Squidoo SquidZipper
- 5 essential luxury platforms — The duPont Luxury Marketing Guide
- SquidZipper is a co-brand of Squidoo.com. If you haven't explored Squidoo.com, you ought to, if for no other reason than because you will be able to curate your own content and point it towards your site? for free. With SquidZipper you ...
- Squidon'ts for SquidZipper Lenses
- By the way, you don't have to be a notary to use SquidZipper. My companion site, Promote Any Business for Free with Squidoo SquidZipper Lenses, provides step-by-step instructions for promoting any local business. ...
- Winner: Pet Peeves About Other Lenses
- Thank you again fellow Squids! Giving shout-outs, nods, and promotion to remarkable Squidoo lenses. MiMi of GrowWear.com invites you to submit your favorite lens. Click Email the Author. Want to be a lensmaster? Start here.
- SquidZipper | Annie Maloney Knows Sevierville, TN - Annie ...
- Squidoo has allowed that priveledge. My page is not quite finished yet but like everything, it is a work in progress. You can check out Annie Maloney's Page About Sevierville,TN at SquidZipper and let me know what you think. ...
Personalize Your SquidZipper Lenses
And... Learn New Ways to Monetize your SquidZipper Lenses
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50 Things to Add to Squidzipper Lenses
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The key to a great squidzipper lens is personalization. Squidzipper already has an automated lens made on each zip code. So, what else is there to say? A LOT! The automated lens only shows the almanac version of your town. It doesn't show the people...
P.S. SquidZippers Can Be Fun Too
Share Your Favorite Neighborhoods, Restaurants, Festivals, and Sports Teams
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Nico's Mexican Food in San Diego, CA
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Nico's Mexican restaurant in Ocean Beach. It's just about as real as real Mexican food gets. Sure, your chances of getting good Mexican in California are higher on average than in most other states, but at Nico's you're guaranteed fresh, elemental, b...
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Harris Ranch Restaurant and Inn, Coalinga, CA 93210
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If you are driving the most boring stretch of I-5, in the San Joaquin Valley between LA and San Francisco, there is an oasis half way between the two! Harris Ranch Restaurant and its accompanying inn are worth viewing. The restaurant food is great an...
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Fayetteville, AR 72701 - Home of the Razorbacks!
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Fayetteville is located in the northwest corner of the state of Arkansas, near both the Oklahoma border on the west and Missouri on the north. We're nestled in the Ozark Mountains, a beauty to behold any time of the year. You may be interested in Fa...
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Little Italy in Cleveland, OH
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Little Italy is a beloved urban neighborhood, located on Murray Hill in Cleveland, Ohio. Little Italy is also host to the annual Feast of the Assumption Festival. A visit to the "old neighborhood" is like stepping back in time, to when neighbors we...
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Mizell's Butterfly and Hummingbird Extravaganza in Folsom, LA
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Each September, Mizell Farms welcomes butterfly and hummingbird lovers to their nursery for the annual Butterfly and Hummingbird Festival. Events include speakers, hummingbird banding, visiting the butterfly house, touring the nature trail, plant rel...
Share Your SquidZipper Lenses Here
Add Your Lens Links and Vote for Your Favorites
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BrauHaus Salon in Pasadena, California
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Travel Town Museum in Los Angeles, California
For more than 50 years, Travel Town has been a fav more...1 point
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Outsourced Channel Data Management, Visibility into the Channel, Channel Directory Services, Channel Data Partner, Channel Management | Zyme Solutions
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- Tammy Tammy Nov 23, 2009 @ 1:38 am
- I've always been looking for a helping hand with promoting my real estate business. I thank you for this awesome tip.
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- curtman curtman Nov 19, 2009 @ 4:12 am
- cool... thnk you for the lens
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- KathyMcGraw KathyMcGraw Oct 28, 2009 @ 10:16 pm
- A lot of good info here- I made a SquidZipper lens but something was wrong with the platform and it ended up on a regular template-had to do my own adding. This has a ton of great info-thanks Kim.
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