Join the Squidoo Community
Be part of the Squidoo community. Squidoo is a great place to share your website, shopping site, affiliate marketing (no spam), or your knowledge on any subject. It is the best place to get noticed.
If you don't know what Squidoo is...then you are missing out of one of the fastest growing social networks on the internet.
As of as of February 1 2009, Squidoo had nearly 900,000 hand built lenses, according to the Editor in Chief. A lens is a page written out by the lensmaster, focused on a particular subject. By time you are reading this, these lenses can be well over a million. More and more people are joining Squidoo every day.
Show Off Your First Lens
Building Your Credibility
Squidoo is a great way to built your credibility. Let readers know that you are a real person with thoughts, dreams and a point of view. Write what you are an expert on. Share it with the community. Tell us about your new book, online store, what has made you successful. Tells us about yourself and let us know what makes you the person that you are.
Many business minded people have used Squidoo as a compliment to their websites, blogs, affiliate business or their online shopping sites. Some lensmasters have worked with businesses to create a lens for that particular business. Yes, some businesses will pay you to write for them.
But it is not business. Many lensmasters want to educate others on health issues and education in general. Others write for the fun of it. Squidoo is a great place to share your recipes, crafts, a movie review or a debate.
Debate on Brett Favre
Example of a debate lens
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Brett Favre Diva vs. Legend
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Brett Favre Is a Diva not a Legend Brett Favre is a Diva, Prima Donna, an attention getter, a baby! What ever words you want to call him, he is no legend. A legend is not a person who sucks everyone in time and time again to believe that he is retiri...
What is a Lensmaster?
Everyone who joins Squidoo is a lensmaster. You write a page called a lens, which you are in charge of. In other words, you are the master of your lens. You are the lensmaster of information.
Connecting With People
Be Heard On The Internet
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As with all social networks you are connecting with people. Making friends and being part of one of the best online communities on the internet. It becomes easy to find that you are among friends. This is what makes Squidoo so additive. It is all about the lensmasters in the community that makes Squidoo one of the top social networks online. In fact, Squidoo is one of the 300 most popular websites in the US. This does not mean you have to live in the US. Lensmasters come from all over the world.
More facts coming from the Editor in Chief, Megan Casey:
1. Squidoo has been reviewed by the New York Times, Mashable, BoingBoing and sites and papers around the world.
2. We call our pages "lenses" because each is one person's focus on something that she's interested in. (Many he's here too.)
3. Squidoo grew 91% in 2008. (Hey, I helped with these statistics.)
4. We launched the site with the tagline "Everyone's an expert (on something)"
5. As of Feb 1, 2009: About 420,000 people visit Squidoo (that means your lenses) every day.
The list goes on. To read more about it go to Getting Started with Squidoo So many great facts about Squidoo, it would make any lensmaster proud that they are part of this wonderful network.
The Payout
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Squidoo has generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual royalties to charities. 35% of the lensmasters have donated their lenses or part of their lenses to charities. There are many charities to choose from. You may have your own charity to add.
Lensmasters can get paid anywhere from a few dollars to $100 a month or more. According to the editor in chief, some make $10,000 a year. The more lenses with quality work that you write, the more income that can end up in your pocket at the end of the month. This is payout is sent to your PayPal account.
Some lensmasters have perfected a niche theme and have made an impressive amount in sales just on one lens. These sales can be generated by the use of Amazon and eBay modules. Or you can be an affiliate of an ebook, Allposters.com or something else that will bring in money in your pockets. The possibilities are endless.
Squidoo pays out revenue in the form of tiers to the lensmasters. The payout is explained on Your Lenses, Your Money and these lenses below.
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FAQ: Payment Settings and Commissions
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Are you confused about commissions? Experiencing donation snafus? Here are the most frequently asked questions about money and earnings on Squidoo. If you were directed here by Tisha, our awesome bug sorter outer, and you still weren't able to find...
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Squidoo Payday Questions & Answers
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It never fails, every month on payday the same questions are being asked in the SquidU forum. Most of them by new lensmasters, but surprisingly, there's also quite a bit of confusion among some who have been around for a while. Figuring out how...
Examples of My Affiliate and Referral Lenses
One form of income
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Squidoo Queen Kelly Stone
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Kelly Stones Squidoo Queen Version 2.1 Rocks the Market! Find out how one very determined affiliate cracked the code to making easy money without any investment! The guru's despise her, her members love her and now she is bringing the blueprint dire...
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How to Save Money Online With BigCrumbs
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If you do any type of shopping online, BigCrumbs is the place to check first for you online purchases. I joined this site in April 2008. Even then, I forgot to take advantage of it! I have been a member of eBay since July 2006. If I had joined BigCru...
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Know Your German Shepherd
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Is a German Shepherd right for you? How will you know unless you read the owner's manual? Too many pets are brought back to animal shelters or worse, because of inexperience owners. Not just the German Shepherd, but any pet. You need to know as much...
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The Ultimate SuperTip Exposed
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Hello, my name is Sandy. I have been in the internet marketing business in some form off and on for the last few years. But I have never really taken it seriously until this year. I've always thought that it would be great to be my own boss and work...
Why Do People Join Squidoo?
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A person does not join Squidoo thinking they will make a fortune on their lenses. (Maybe some do.) Everyone who joins Squidoo has their own reason to join. Squidoo can be an extension of your own writing. It can be a way to direct traffic to your website.
I know one lensmaster (grassosalvato86) who only has one lens It.course: free Italian language course though he has another account for his travel lenses. This way he would have an account for two different subjects.
This is what he had to say to me, "So far, I haven't got any travel lens, but without any particular reason I'm building my language lenses under my second account. When I have my travel lenses, I will transfer all my language ones under my first account."
"The reason why I started using Squidoo? To bring traffic to my blog. After a while though, I realized that Squidoo could also make me earn some money not only by the shared revenue from the Adsense ads but also and mainly by selling affiliate products."
I (sandyspider) also joined to bring viewers to my websites. Ebook Tree Saver and Embrace the Hill But mainly, I joined Squidoo to promote a free to join marketing opportunity. The SpiderWeb Marketing System Seven lenses were created on this subject without a clue of what I was doing. These lenses have been improved on as I have grown as a lensmaster.
As a note: Many people have one account with many subjects, as I do. Others have different accounts to keep each subject separate. After making more than 100 lenses, I often think if I should of created different accounts. Let me know what you think about this in the guestbook.
My First Lens
What do you think of my featured lens?
For all lensmasters, at the bottom of the page is a plexo to add your first lens to.-
The SpiderWeb Black Widow Venom
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When I joined The Spider Web Marketing System, there was no mention of The Black Widow Partnership Program. And even when I logged into the Spider Web, there was no Black Widow to be found. I found out about it through social networking. Afterwards,...
Great Books by Seth Godin
Founder of Squidoo
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 12/25/2009) 
Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable--Includes new bonus chapter
Amazon Price: $14.93 (as of 12/25/2009)
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Amazon Price: $9.32 (as of 12/25/2009)
Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
Amazon Price: $19.00 (as of 12/25/2009)
Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow
Amazon Price: $5.18 (as of 12/25/2009)
The Joy of Squidoo eBook
Both Men and Women Can Join Squidoo
"Your Cooking is Heavenly, Woman Reading Cookbook" Buy this at AllPosters.com
If only I had known of The Joy of Squidoo free ebook to download, before writing my first lenses, then I would have learned how to turn ordinary into extraordinary right from the beginning.
This ebook is written by Seth Godin (founder of Squidoo) and Megan Casey (Editor in Chief.) This recipe book is really about the guidelines, how not to spam your audience with the Golden rules, and 26 recipes to get you started. I will share some of them here. There is a page for each of these 26 recipes to get you started.
This recipe guidebook is available to be downloaded here The Joy of Squidoo: A Recipe Book for Great Lenses and can be found on Megan Casey's lens. Getting Started With Squidoo
This can also be found on Ebook Tree Saver along with other free downloads.
10 of the 26 Recipes to Get You Started
From The Joy of Squidoo
1. Raise money for a charity you care about
2. Teach people about your hobby
3. Engage your audience to create content
4. Build trust as an eBay seller
5. Promote your point of view
6. Display your portfolio
7. Find people to help you work on a project
8. Deeply research something fascinating
9. Find a date
10. Promote your book
Download The Joy of Squidoo: A Recipe Book for Great Lenses
Squidoo Resource Guides
Once you join Squidoo it is good to know that there is a great community here that will help along the way. For questions go to SquidU. This is the Squid University. Here you can find an answer to most of your questions. If there is something that you can't find, send the Squid team a message.Squidoo community has many Squidoo tip lenses to help make your experience as a lensmaster easier. Below are my Squidoo resource guides featuring lenses of the most talented lensmasters. And if you have a Squidoo Tip lens that is not featured then please add it to the plexos.
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Squidoo Widgets, PayPal and Tools
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Squidoo has some great internal widget modules. But what if you wanted to add a Playlist or a different type of Amazon module? This is where external widgets come in. Once you get the hang of it, it becomes easy. Squidoo is a different type of Squid...
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HTML, CSS Backgrounds on Squidoo
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I am constantly striving to beautify my lenses. Just like many Squidooers starting out, my first lenses are a little plain looking. However there have been vast improvements within Squidoo itself since I began Squidoo in July 2008. For instant, "Text...
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Lens Rank and Traffic on Squidoo
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Now that I have learned how to improve on the aesthetics of my lenses, it is time to find traffic. Without the traffic to your Squidoo lens (or even website) it really doesn't matter how beautiful you make your lens. Even with the best quality conten...
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HTML Text and Image Squidoo Tips
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I am constantly working on improving my lenses to make them look the best that they can be. I was a Newbie when I joined Squidoo, July 2008. I wasn't familiar with how different type of text formats worked on Squidoo. For one thing Squidoo is a diffe...
Joy of Squidoo on Zazzle
Zazzle, Cafepress, Allposters - another way to make money or give to charity
Donors Choose
After all it starts in the classroom
DonorsChoose.org is dedicated to addressing the scarcity and inequitable distribution of learning materials and experiences in our public schools.
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- aj2008 aj2008 Nov 27, 2009 @ 11:09 am
- Well there's certainly lots of good reasons to join Squidoo on here Sandy!
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- andreaberrios andreaberrios Nov 25, 2009 @ 7:09 pm
- Very interesting lens! Nice links.
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Nov 23, 2009 @ 11:48 pm
- This is a cool lens! Blessed by an angel!
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- Lisa-Marie-Mary Lisa-Marie-Mary Nov 23, 2009 @ 11:30 am
- Great lens! Thank you so much for all the great information! :)
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