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Fresh Squid Graduation Class October 2008

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Busy Busy Month for Fresh Squid Group!

October was really busy and successful month for Fresh Squid Group! During this month this group made exclusively for newcomers to Squidoo featured 94 lenses by 94 newly joined lensmasters!

These lensmasters came willing to learn and teach us all something new! They shared their passions and dreams with us!

It's never easy to start somewhere from beginning and it's great to see them come this far!

Cheer to October 2008 Graduation Class!

MEET FRESH SQUID GRADUATES



OCTOBER 2008

Fresh Squid Lens HAS BEEN Lens of The Day!

Being newcomer to Squidoo, doesn't mean you can't make quality lenses and receive recognition by community for your work. Best proof for that are lenses made by Fresh Squids that have been pronounced as Lens of the day!

Laddoo had his lens as Lens of The Day! Another, Squidaddle was honored for his lens only 25 days after joining Squidoo!

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Fresh Squids in Contest!

Cheer to our winners! Your votes made this possible!

Winner of 2nd Fresh Squid Contest is jfield with her lens:
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2nd place goes to stephen001 for:
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3rd place winner is MrDarcy with:
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QUESTIONS FOR GRADUATES!

Following few questions are for our graduates, to let them express their feelings and share new knowledge with those who will come!

How Did You Found Out About Squidoo?

What brought you here?

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    MrDarcy Feb 18, 2009 @ 7:27 am | delete
    I was googling for Jane Austen fanfiction that I couldn't find anywhere, and I found Squidoo. I still didn't find what I was looking for though, so I decided to make my own lens that would help others finding stuff. It was my first lens. I have 11 now! :D
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    ZBT Feb 14, 2009 @ 8:46 pm | delete
    I e was tooling around the link referral forum when I first heard about Squidoo. And, THANK GOD that I did! Yep, a guy was going on and on about how you could get listed on the 1st page of Google - and, he's right. My lens, Detroit Caterers ... , is in the #1 position (it's Valentine's Day 2009). I "get it" now - and there will be absolutely no looking back. I'm so very grateful!
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    WebSpinstress Jan 21, 2009 @ 1:40 pm | delete
    I noticed that links from Squidoo.com were appearing on the first page of Google results frequently. I didn't know what a Squidoo lens was, and decided to take a quick peek. The "Build Your Lens" button captured me immediately and I haven't been seen in the real World often since that day...
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    RichMann Jan 8, 2009 @ 2:37 pm | delete
    When I was enrolled in some Internet marketing courses.
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    CASU Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:38 pm | delete
    I found Squidoo while searching on Entrepreneur, I was looking for places to promote my website, I enjoy Squidoo, and have created 3 lens and soon to be on #4. I think I have a good lens for selling my products. Although it is coming along slowly I post my Squidoo Lens everywhere I can.

    www.squidoo.com/creative-name-plaques
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    CherryShrimp Jan 6, 2009 @ 10:44 am | delete
    If not mistaken, it was from Wealthy Affiliated that I got to know about Squidoo. Since then I uses Squidoo to promote some of my blogs and affiliate product
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    stephen001 Jan 6, 2009 @ 10:23 am | delete
    I found about Squidoo through one of my friend. I remember the day when he send me his referral link for me to join squidoo. It was October 2008. Then I decided to choose recent inventions as my subject and started collecting amazing information about latest inventions. Putting it on my lens, connecting to other great lensmasters that's all what I did. Now when I am getting more than 200 visitors per day and also earned my first online income through it, I simply love Squidoo. Recently I have started a new lens about online paid surveys that is doing very good just after 15 days of its creation. I really appreciate suggestions from other lensmasters so that I can improve it just like my first lens.
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    easyforyouebooks Jan 6, 2009 @ 2:31 am | delete
    My 2 Mentor recomended squidoo to me and I'm so glad they did. I love making lenses and the community is so friendly and helpful. Thank You so much.
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    kathypi Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:40 am | delete
    I found Squidoo while I was on zazzle, I was reading a post to promote my zazzle products, someone had mentioned Squidoo! I came and had a look and thought I am no writer, I could never do this, but I looked around and thought nobody knows me, I WILL GIVE IT A TRY! It has been
    liberating for me, I had recently lost a pet of 12 years, and thought I would do a private tribute to Angel, I wrote, I cried, I wrote I cried, when I WAS DONE I got the nerve to click publish, I HAVE TO SAY, I had so many caring people comment, I feel very fortunate to be a part of such a caring community.
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    Flynn_the_Cat Jan 5, 2009 @ 4:11 pm | delete
    Actually, I can't remember! I think I was reading lots of reviews of blogging sites and PODs and Squidoo came up a lot...
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Was It Hard to Get Around Squidoo?

What was the hardest? How you worked it out?

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    MrDarcy Feb 18, 2009 @ 7:28 am | delete
    It's easy to get around, but sometimes Squidoo works slowly for me.
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    ZBT Feb 14, 2009 @ 8:48 pm | delete
    The hardest thing for me has nothing to do with Squidoo. What's hard is staying on track; I'm so excited about so many subjects, and making the lenses that it's not even funny! Focus. Focus. Focus.
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    TheGreenerMe Jan 28, 2009 @ 8:20 am | delete
    I didn't find it hard at all to get around Squidoo! The workshop is very easy to manuever, and it's easy to jump around the site and find new lenses to read. There are many tutorials that helped me get going and make my lenses look better, along with tips on what the Giant Squid Reviewers are looking for.
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    WebSpinstress Jan 21, 2009 @ 1:40 pm | delete
    Squidoo is very user-friendly and there are many tutorials to learn all the basics quickly. One tutorial links to another, which links to another, and it only took a few hours of reading to learn how to maximize lens modules. The SquidU forum is packed full of helpful lensmasters and community leaders who have no problem lending an extra tentacle. :-)
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    RichMann Jan 8, 2009 @ 2:46 pm | delete
    I found the Squidoo interfaces fairly intuitive but need more explanations and better tutorials. The help function was not very helpful. The search return were disappointing especially because of the low volume of returned results. The forums were also hard to target specific search information.
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    CherryShrimp Jan 6, 2009 @ 10:45 am | delete
    nope. Squidoo is very user friendly
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    stephen001 Jan 6, 2009 @ 10:24 am | delete
    No Way... Squidoo is very easy to use and amazing platform.
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    TanituIsland Jan 5, 2009 @ 8:17 pm | delete
    Explore and Explore Again, and Soon Enough You're Squidoo-ing !
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    Flynn_the_Cat Jan 5, 2009 @ 4:12 pm | delete
    Not at all; but I came to Squidoo with a hard earned knowledge of basic HTML & the Internets already.

    ...gagtoes? What kind of security word is that?
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    terez07 Jan 5, 2009 @ 3:10 pm | delete
    I did not find getting around Squidoo difficult at all. What was astonishing to me was the wealth of information available! One of my first thoughts was "how did I not know about this site earlier?" I still have much to learn, plus there are so many excellent lens about every subject I am interested in. I am still getting my feet wet!
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What Do you Like About Squidoo?

Share it with the world!

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    MrDarcy Feb 18, 2009 @ 7:30 am | delete
    The endless possibilities. While making a lens I already have an idea for another. Other people's lenses give me even more ideas!
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    ZBT Feb 14, 2009 @ 8:54 pm | delete
    I like that I found a place where I can get the end result(s) that I have dreamed of (helping people/getting the word out there about my business, which go hand-in-hand), and the only thing that it costs me is my time. It doesn't get any better than this! Well ... except that it works - and is really fun, too!
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    TheGreenerMe Jan 28, 2009 @ 8:22 am | delete
    I love the sense of community at Squidoo. Lensmasters go far out of their way to help out on the forums and by making such helpful tutorial based lenses. Squidoo makes it incredibly easy to make a great lens that will actually be found!
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    WebSpinstress Jan 21, 2009 @ 1:41 pm | delete
    I like Squidoo because it is dedicated to providing a solid platform with high-quality content on a diverse range of subjects. The community is welcoming, open-minded, and willing to give you positive feedback to improve your lenscrafting skills on any topic. It's very rewarding to create lenses that you are passionate about, read amazing lenses created by other interesting lensmasters, share comments, have your lenses ranked, and gain friendships with many Squids along the way...
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    RichMann Jan 8, 2009 @ 2:49 pm | delete
    I like the ease of use in some lens building applications. The ability to use HTMLl and CSS to design with and the friendly lensmasters.
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    CASU Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:41 pm | delete
    I like that you can just express yourself about almost anything from life to the kitchen sink.
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    CherryShrimp Jan 6, 2009 @ 10:46 am | delete
    ease of use, fast being index in Google, good amount of readers, large community
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    stephen001 Jan 6, 2009 @ 10:27 am | delete
    What I Like most about Squidoo.... hmmmm....... Tough question... I like everything about Squidoo. Specially the community that squidoo forms by connecting all great lensmasters.
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    easyforyouebooks Jan 6, 2009 @ 2:36 am | delete
    What i love about squidoo is that it is so easy to create a nice lens around the things you are passioned about. There are so many lenses you can learn from and get advice about things you need to know about squidoo.
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    kathypi Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:59 am | delete
    The community of Squidoo, I found everyone so welcoming!
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What Could Be Improved On Squidoo?

In your own opinion?

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    MrDarcy Feb 18, 2009 @ 7:38 am | delete
    Many small things like allowing to choose a longer excerpt in a blog feed, or the mentioned earlier star rating system.
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    TheGreenerMe Jan 28, 2009 @ 8:24 am | delete
    Some of the Squidoo sister sites like "Best Ever" have low, low traffic and load a little bit slow.
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    WebSpinstress Jan 21, 2009 @ 1:41 pm | delete
    If I had to pick one feature that could be improved, it would be the star ratings system. Some of my best lenses have most of the traffic pulled from outside sources, but visitors without a Squidoo account are not able to rate lenses. However, I know there may not be a solution for this as it leaves a wide gap for playing the system...
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    RichMann Jan 8, 2009 @ 2:59 pm | delete
    The most frustrating parts of lens building was the fact that there's not enough support for using HTML and CSS. When editing lenses, the save function rewrites the code and really messes up the layout by adding end tags>where they don't belong. A great deal of the tutorials aren't clear as to how to use HTML and CSS and the very limited support for these layout features. It's very hard to get Google page rank for a lens even if it's optimized for the search engines. There should be support for those that want to add Opt-In forms to their lenses. There's many ways that this can be done without compromising security by using IFrame. There should be support for RSS submission to the various RSS ping engines.
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    CASU Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:49 pm | delete
    Well I think that when I was a newcomer I was totally lost.so maybe when they first join Squidoo you could give more direct help with getting started.You know basics it takes alot to fugire out were to start. but once you get into it with a little help from Squid U.
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    CherryShrimp Jan 6, 2009 @ 10:48 am | delete
    I guess is the traffic. Seems like Squidoo sometime do get slow respond in login and page reload. I guess is mainly due to high user rate.
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    stephen001 Jan 6, 2009 @ 10:28 am | delete
    Their payouts.... Must give little more to everyone specially lensmasters in top level.
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    kathypi Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:48 am | delete
    Maybe a central page, with more links in one area, would make it easier for new people to find what they are looking for would help.
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    Flynn_the_Cat Jan 5, 2009 @ 4:25 pm | delete
    A few glitches here and there. not made me lens of the day yet... can't think of much
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    terez07 Jan 5, 2009 @ 3:19 pm | delete
    Well, so far I have no complaints as of yet.
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Yours or from someone else!

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