Hand Build a Handmade Lens!
Squidoo is a great, easy way for anyone selling handmade items to promote their creations. Display your knitting, painting, sculpting, jewelry making, etc. and generate more visits (and hopefully sales) on your website or webstore.
Why Squidoo?
I've been using Squidoo to promote my sculpture and jewelry (as well as myself) for over a year now. Squidoo accounts for the most referral traffic to my website, blog, and online shop, only search engines send me more visitors than Squidoo.This lens is all about ways to use Squidoo to promote your handmade business. However if you aren't selling handmade items I'm sure there's information here to help anyone seeking to promote themselves or their business.
Squidoo Basics
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How to Squidoo -- A Step-by-Step Primer
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This step-by-step primer gives you plenty of how-to information on how to get started building your Squidoo lens. Get some useful tips about how to build that lens with plenty of helpful pictures of the various templates you can use. You'll see plent...
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Squidoo Modules
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This lens demonstrates a selection of some of the most used and useful Squidoo Modules. You'll see them in their natural environment, with content or product included. Accompanying each is a description of what the module does. To start with, this is...
Basic Tips
Images
Show off your creations with lots of good pictures. Don't be limited to just the small image you can stick in a text/write module. Use an image hosting service like Photobucket to upload and show images using HTML.
Share your Passion
Make it clear you love what you do. Share your enjoyment.
Help Formatting Your Lens
Using HTML on Squidoo
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Advanced HTML for Squidoo
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The techniques shown here aren't much more advanced then what's in the Basic HTML tutorial. The code being used isn't any more special. But the results and presentation can appear to be more sophisticated. Hence it being the Advanced HTML tutorial. F...
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My Favourite CSS Tricks on Squidoo
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The basic tools provided by Squidoo will do pretty much everything you need to get your content out to your audience. But sometimes you want to format it a little differently, and this is where inline CSS comes into play. Here I show some of the tric...
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Super Advanced HTML Tips and Tricks to use on Squidoo
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These html tricks for Squidoo are not really that super advanced. But they are super cool! Anyone can do this, Yes, you too! This lens would not be possible if it were not for the groundwork of other lenmasters: specifically, Magicality and N376 so t...
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Basic HTML for Squidoo
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Before you start reading all this, you may want to open Advanced HTML in a new tab, because you'll be wanting to check it out as soon as you've finished this! You can use basic HTML in a few of the lens modules. Mostly used to create hyperlinks (the...
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Simple HTML tricks to use with Squidoo
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Squidoo has a nice editor for your lenses, but things can be improved. This lens will show you some simple tricks to include more than possible with simply using the editor. These tricks should be used in modules like the link list, or the write modu...
Use RSS Feeds of Your Products
Many online selling venues have RSS feeds of products. In my case I use eCrater. Use Squidoo's RSS module to display the RSS Feed. Make sure you select the "everything available" option for an excerpt, and set displaying HTML to Yes if the feed includes images and/or buy now buttons.
If you use eCrater check out my Using eCrater RSS Feeds lens for more tips.
If you use Etsy the default rss feed is very minimal but this article tells you how to get a full featured feed with pictures.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byDo You Have an Etsy Store?
This is the format of Etsy store links, to use the Etsy module you want to add only the number after user_id=
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=0000000
The Etsy Module
You need to select some items to show.
Great Stuff on eBay
You can use the eBay module to show off your listings there. Squidoo also has two co-brands just for eBay called SquidBids and eBayers on Squidoo.
I don't sell on eBay so here are some search results on eBay for "handmade". To show just items from your own store select the "PICK BY SELLER OR STORENAME" option.
Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand by
Use Videos on YouTube
Show Flickr Photos of Your Creations
Or in this case photos of my sculptures that are unfinished.
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Fire Dancer Wip
Tentacle Bug
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Become an Expert
How to Lenses
A sampling of the lenses I've done sharing my knowledge.
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Creating with Cold Porcelain
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Make delicate creations using this easy to make homemade air dry clay. Cold porcelain dries to a beautiful and durable finish perfect for making tiny flowers and other miniatures.
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Building Armatures for Polymer Clay Sculpture
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Armatures are vital to strong sculptures. Learn about different methods for building strong armatures. A strong armature can hold polymer clay in virtually any complicated or precarious position, even look like it's floating in air.
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Polymer Clay Sculpting Tips and Tutorials
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Polymer clay is a wonderful medium for sculpture. You can create one of a kind sculptures without the need for an expensive kiln or messy mold materials. You can create everything from very simple animals made from basic shapes to detailed, complex,...
Useful Squidoo Links
- SquidU | Where lensmasters know best!
- Squidoo forums.
- SquidUtils - Utilities and Tools for Squidoo Lensmasters
- SquidUtils has complementry utilities and tools for Squidoo Lensmasters. Tools include: the advanced dashboard, lensmaster feeds, plus Amazon links and feeds.
- The Best Squidoo Blog Ever | Captain Squid
- A blog about squidoo and making money using Squidoo
- Squidoo Chat Room | Captain Squid's Squidoo Training Center
- Chat about squidoo
- Squidoo Dashboard Firefox Extension
- The dashboard shows a basic set of information to the Squidoo user, but is this enough?The Squidoo DE will enhance Firefox to show even more information on the dashboard.
- SquidBlog
- Official Squidoo Blog
- #!etsyhacks | feedback
- Get Etsy shop feedback as RSS or Atom. Display your feedback on a lens using this tool and an RSS module.
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Leave your questions and comments.
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- ChapelHillFiddler ChapelHillFiddler Sep 22, 2009 @ 7:10 am
- You really know your stuff, very inspiring. I have a zazzle store but have never had a clue how to promote it. You've given me some clues, thanks!
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- henzy henzy Jun 2, 2009 @ 11:40 am
- great lens. thanks for the tips
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- Mountainside-Crochet Mountainside-Crochet Apr 4, 2009 @ 4:28 pm
- Great hints and links. Thanks for the info.
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- Happiegrrrl Happiegrrrl Feb 20, 2009 @ 11:05 am
- A very helpful lens!
Thanks for submitting this lens to Etsy Informationals. Welcome to the Group!
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- CosyCandles CosyCandles Feb 18, 2009 @ 3:54 pm
- Brilliant lens. some good useful tips.
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More Handmade Business Lenses
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Running a Handmade Business
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So you're an artist, designer, or craftsperson and want to take your first steps into making money from your talent and skills? This lens is full of advice for anyone starting a handmade business.
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Branding Your Handmade Products
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Learn about building a brand as an indie artist or designer. Branding helps create an image for you and your business. It helps generate repeat business and word of mouth which is so important for small business.
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Selling Handmade Jewelry Online
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The internet gives jewelry artisans so many new opportunities to sell their work and reach a far larger number of people. This lens gives an overview of things to consider before selling your jewelry online.
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Tools for Etsy Sellers
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Etsy is the biggest online marketplace devoted to selling handmade products. Here is a collection of tips and tools for Etsy sellers to help their productivity and success.
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Preparing for an Art or Craft Festival
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Art and craft festivals are a lot of work but worth it for the exposure you get and the great people you meet. Here is a guide to preparing for a show and having a great time. Oh yeah, and did I mention selling your creations?
This handmade business lens is a creation of Noadi's Art
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