Using Squidoo to Promote Your Handmade Business
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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
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
Use RSS Feeds of Your Products
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
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.
Show Flickr Photos of Your Creations
Or in this case photos of my sculptures that are unfinished.
Become an Expert
How to Lenses
A sampling of the lenses I've done sharing my knowledge.
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.
Lens Love Widget
This module only appears with actual data when viewed on a live lens. The favorite and lensroll options will appear on a live lens if the viewer is a member of Squidoo and logged in.
Pen a Message
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manlalakbay
Feb 5, 2012 @ 1:20 pm | delete
- Nice lens you have here. Keep it up. :)
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Adinantiquejewelry Sep 6, 2011 @ 1:07 am | delete
- Great content and helpfull tips. Thank you very much ;-)
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dawngibson Jul 6, 2011 @ 7:12 pm | delete
- Thanks for making this. It's really helpful.
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ArtsiBitsi
Jun 22, 2011 @ 4:15 pm | delete
- You gave me the confidence to build my own lens. I am hoping to make more and use more of these tricks soon.
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artyfax
Jan 19, 2011 @ 5:49 am | delete
- A great help. I have been considering an etsy store for some time after finding eBay a bit of a letdown at selling handmade art. Thanks for the lens
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by Noadi
Hi! I'm Sheryl, a sculptor and jewelry designer, I create in polymer clay and mixed media, please visit Noadi's Art to see my work or my Etsy shop to buy.
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