48 Ideas for New Squidoo Lenses

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End Writer's Block and Get Fresh Ideas for Creative New Squidoo Lenses!

It happens to everyone. You sit down, you intend to create a masterpiece lens, and then you realize you're completely out of ideas.

If you're stuck on new lens ideas, here are 48 ideas for fresh lenses that might give you a jumpstart!

1. Stop Forcing your Lens!

Get outside of the house or off the computer, experience life. Don't come back until you have plenty of new ideas! Just forget about lensmaking for a bit, and you'll come back full of ideas.

SquidLit, Magazines and the News 

2. Read a book lately? Make a SquidLit lens and review it!
3. Watch the news, write something topical that will be popular today, tomorrow and next week.
4. Visit Google trends to see what's hot today.
5. Pick up a magazine and flip through it. Disagree with something they wrote? Make a lens about it!

6. Review a Product you Purchased.

Give your recommendations on why you should buy a certain product, and go into detail about personal experiences with it and why it's so useful and different.

 

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Picture and Video Content for your Squidoo Lenses 

7. Make a picture only lens. The Text Module with Big Picture makes it very easy.
8. Advertise your business, lens, MySpace, Twitter, Facebook or profile. Make a list of reasons why people should visit.
9. Share your lensmaking secrets!
10. Review a movie on SquidFlix.
11. Compile your best jokes together on a lens.

12. Make a lens showcase!

Feature other works by lensmasters on a subject on your own lens showcase. Highlight the best of the best in your opinion, and be sure to tell those lensmasters about it!

13. Make a Lensography 

Make it easier for your lenses to be found on Squidoo by containing them in a lensography. Kind of like an about us page mixed with a site map.
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14. Use Unique Modules as a Base for your Lens 

Squidoo has a bunch of unique modules that will make your lens look and feel different. Add many of the same module to your lens and see if it works for you!

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The Flickr Module in Action!

15. Take a Survey!  

Find out information about your readers, your customers, other lensmasters by using the poll module!
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Share your Squidoo Knowledge! 

16. Make a lens about your favorite musician, band, or song. Consider using the SquidWho template.
17. Offer a tutorial on a subject you know a lot about.
18. Take advantage of the SquidZipper lens template and tell people the best places about your town, or a major city you know plenty about. It really is incredibly easy to make a SquidZipper lens, too.

19. Discover your Niche.

What are you passionate about? Plan out several lenses on one subject. People, places, things, activities, history, science, dig deep into your niche, then create your own lensography featuring your lenses on that subject!

Make Something Unique by Using New Lens Templates, Supporting Charities, or Being Festive 

20. Make a lens about a charity, for that charity!
21. Highlight an upcoming event, and don't forget to use the countdown module!
22. Get festive and think about the next holiday.
23. Stuck? Interview someone else for a differing opinion, insider knowledge, and intersting stories of their own!
24. Charged up about something? Make a Hey Monkeybrain! lens about it. Vent. It's SquidTheraphy.
25. Squidoo and blogs work well together. Take a post from your blog to the next level by rewording it into an interesting lens.
26. Feature your favorite artist on a lens.
27. Make recommendations, post picture and include links about your recent vacation!

28. Make a List Lens 

You can really get going quick by making list lenses like this one.
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Think of Things in a Different Light 

29. Take a break from Squidoo and come back tomorrow!
30. Highlight unique aspects of sports teams, owners, coaches, records, players, curses, locations, names or pictures.
31. What are your favorite websites to visit? Tell us why and how you use them.
32. Dedicate a lens to someone else! Who's your hero?
33. Find a category on Squidoo that you haven't written a lens in yet and start there!
34. There's a whole other world out there of money making possibilities with Affiliate Programs. Get started on one today!

Bonus Tip: Find Unique Products on eBay 

eBay Stores have incredibly unique products. Don't just limit yourself to the regular eBay search, click on the "stores" link at the top of eBay's home page and get started on finding unique stuff that people will find interesting!

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35. Stop by one of the Squidoo Blogs! 

Lensmasters have taken the initiative to start their own blogs and sites about Squidoo outside of Squidoo! Find some inspiration from their tips. Here are a few examples...
SquidooCool.com
An informative blog about Squidoo by MrLewisSmile.
SquidUtils.com
Priceless advice from top lensmaster Fluffanutta.
Captain Squid
Captain Squid has been created as a resource for lensmasters to improve their lens.

36. Don't Rely on the Internet.

The internet is great, but it's only one source of information. Books, magazines, newspapers, and libraries have enormous amounts of information, statistics, and ideas that you can't find online.

Offer Advice, Showcase your Pet, or Give a Lens! 

37. Offer some creative ways to be greener by offering some green tips.
38. Feature your pet, donate the royalties to an animal cause!
39. Give the gift of a lens. Know someone that has a business, or something they'd like to promote? Help them out by creating a great lens featuring it! (Of course, ask permission first!)
40. Give your kids a lens! Let your kids get involved in the fun of making a lens and ask them what they'd like to make a lens about. Now there's a different point of view!

41. Shine the Spotlight on your CafePress Store 

Squidoo and CafePress are like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Easy to make lenses, and it does just what you want it to.
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42. Let Other Lensmasters Write your Lens! 

What do you mean write your lens for you? Squidoo has a whole tab of interactive modules to add to your lens, like the Links Plexo, YouTube Voting, Flickr Voting, Guestbook, and the controversy creating Duel module to make original content for your lens! Ask an interesting question and you can get unique, insightful results.

What's the better lens template, Hey MonkeyBrain or
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Hey Monkeybrain is definitely better!

spirituality says:

I love the hey monkeybrain template. I use it on all my debate lenses (and I've made a few). The squidwho template doesn't really make my lenses better than they would have been and doesn't look as good either, I think.

Posted January 03, 2009

kiwisoutback says:

I like Hey Monkeybrain. I love the controversy, I love hearing opinions of people from opposing sides. They're lenses that really make you think.

Posted October 21, 2008

SquidWho is far superior.

GypsyOwl says:

I like using SquidWho to introduce upcoming famous people. People that we 'should' know about. For example my Who Is Carrie Wilkerson is a great lens to meet The Barefoot Executive who is motivating work at home women. http://www.squidoo.com/carriewilkerson.

Posted October 22, 2008

 

 

43. Use your old content and make into new lenses. Not only can you use your blog posts, but use your old English essays, college papers, articles, and even lengthy forum posts to create original lenses.
44. Create an about us page for you or your business.
45. Create a Squidoo group instead of a lens, but make it unique and creative!
46. Stop by the SquidU forums to chat it up with other lensmasters, and get inspired from everyone else's creativity!
47. Make a lens specifically written for a certain demographic.

48. Work Quickly with Brainstorming!

Take out a pen and paper, and start brainstorming. On paper, things look different and your mind interprets it differently when you actually write down your thoughts. Start with one idea, then offshoot module ideas, other supporting lenses, unique graphic looks for your lens, keywords, what you'll sell, and where you expect to get traffic from. This should give you a good start to your new lens!

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