Squidoo Payday - My Earnings Record

My Paydays on Squidoo - 1st Year

Note that for months and months, I earned very little

• Sept. 2008 - Made my 1st lens and went away, forgetting about Squidoo.
• August 2009 - Returned and made 2 lenses.
  September 2009 - Made 5 lenses.
  October 2009 - Published 9 more lenses on Squidoo. (on the 10/08/09 payday for the month of August earned nothing. Squidoo has a 2 month lag for paying out the earnings.)
  November 2009 - Added 25 more lenses. (Earned nine cents on the 11/05/09 payday)
  December 2009 - Made 34 more lenses. (Earned ninty-four cents on the 12/15/09 payday. This is from the October work.)
• January 2010 - Made 27 new lenses. (Squidoo said I earned $3.73 for the November work, but still haven't reached the minimum $10 payout that I'd set)
  February 2010 - Made 23 new lenses (In mid-February, Squidoo told me I earned $4.23 for the December work.)
  March 2010 - Made 28 new lenses (On the March payday I earned $8.95 for the January work.)
  April 2010 - Made 12 new lenses (On the April payday I earned $9.57 for the February work.)
  May 2010 - Made 7 new lenses (May payday, I earned $31.56 from 61 lenses. The rest of my lenses did not earn anything this month. This was the royalties for the month of March.)
  June 2010 - Made 20 new lenses (On the June payday I earned $50.29. Remember the 2 month lag in paying, so this was for earnings from April)
  July 2010 - Made 29 new lenses (For the July payday I earned $42.22. This is for earnings in May.)
• YOUR ROYALTIES (06/01/2010 to 06/30/2010)
  Your new lens earnings this period = $58.90
  Zero lenses in tier 1, 7 lenses in tier 2, and a huge number in tier 3 or lower.
  (I'm really looking forward to next month's payday, as I've had a number of associate sales on various lenses)
• YOUR SQUIDOO ROYALTIES (07/01/2010 to 07/31/2010)
  Your new lens earnings from this period = $139.50
  96 lenses earned something during the month, but $85 came from my three lenses that stayed in tier one.
  Add in the $99 from the Summer Sunshine award, my earnings came to $238.50 this month from Squidoo.
  
  
  Happy Face Sun - Magnet by dchaddad
  

My Second Year of Earnings on Squidoo

Starting with the October 15, 2010 Pay Out

• Not payday yet, but I just sold my first Squidoo lens. It was a tier one and I sold it for $100. That may sound too cheap to some, but it was a seasonal lens that will only earn a few months each year. I'm excited about this new way to earn using Squidoo.
• YOUR SQUIDOO ROYALTIES (08/01/2010 to 08/31/2010)
  Your new lens earnings from this period = $193.27
  Total earnings = $193.27!
  
  Combine the royalties with the $100 from the lens I sold brings my Squidoo income to $293 for October. This is real progress!
• YOUR SQUIDOO ROYALTIES (09/01/2010 to 09/30/2010) Paid out on November 16, 2010.
  Your new lens earnings from this period = $226.60
  
  I made an additional $10 by putting a link in one lens for a business. A few of the dollars went to charity, out of the $226.
• YOUR SQUIDOO ROYALTIES (10/01/2010 to 10/31/2010) Paid out on December 15, 2010
  Your new lens earnings from this period = $395.64
  Total earnings = $395.64! (a few dollars of the $395 went to charity)
  
  That's from the sales of Halloween items on the lenses plus 5 lenses were in tier one which paid about $25 each! Wow! The infolinks are paying mostly pennies and Chitka seems negligible. I'm loving Amazon though!
• YOUR SQUIDOO ROYALTIES (11/01/2010 to 11/30/2010)
  Your new lens earnings from this period = $379.77
  Total earnings = $379.77!
  
  Add to that $20 that I made for putting a link in one of my lenses. I was hoping that this month would be bigger (with Christmas buying) than October was (with Halloween buying). Guess not. I'm still excited about December Amazon sales which I won't know about until mid-February.
• Just received the February payout (covering earnings from December 2010). I was anxious to see how the Christmas season earned. My total earnings after a small bit was given to charity is $455.06. That's the best payday for me yet!
  
  I expect next month to drop down without all the Christmas shopping boosting the earnings.
  I like the new way that Squidoo is posting the month's earning so you can see the top earning lens and scan down the list without having to click on each one. Great!
• March 15 payout (covering earnings from January 2011) was $318.67. As expected, the earnings dropped from the peak Christmas earnings. This is probably the range I'll earn in unless I make more lenses, fine-tune my sales lenses and build more backlinks.
• BONUS - I just received $30 for a creating a commissioned lens. The nice part, is I get to keep the lens, as they just wanted the backlinks. The lens is in the third tier, but I have hopes of moving it up to second tier over time.
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  Will Work For Food by choicegifts
  
  
  Yes, there is FREE LUNCH. I made a lens for a friend and she treated me to a nice lunch.
• April 2011 (February 2011 royalties paid out 04/14/2011)
  * Total featured lenses on date: 203 lenses (I have more lenses but they did not earn anything)
  * Total paid in cash via PayPal: $323.74
• March 2011 earnings (paid out May 2011)
  
  Earnings on May 13, 2011 payday ....$348.08
• April 2011 royalties (paid out 06/10/2011)
  
  Total featured lenses on date: 187 lenses (this doesn't count my non-earning lenses)
  Total paid in cash via PayPal : $292.04 (a $56 drop from last month)
• May 2011 royalties (paid out July 14, 2011)
  
  Total featured lenses on date: 183 lenses (I have more lenses than that, but the count doesn't include the non-earners)
  Grand total this month: $467.59 WhooHoo, this even beat my Christmas month earnings!
• June 2011 royalties (paid out August 11, 2011)
  $446.97
  plus $5 for a referral which means someone who signed up through me made their first $15, so I get a bonus. My new total is $451.97 for the month.
• July 2011 royalties (paid out September 15, 2011)
  $465.41 Then on September 21, received an additional $96 which was the missing Chitka and Ad money that I filed a bug report about. That brings the total for the month to $561.79. Highest month yet!
  October 10, 2011 - just received a bonus from an experiment Squidoo did with the angels. I earned $21.59 in the DueProps Angel Project. Very nice. That brings the total for the month to $583.38.

My Third Year of Earning on Squidoo

• October 13, 2011 received the payout for August. It's the best yet! $623.22
• November 15, 2011 received the payout for September. Even better than last month...$793.40
• December 14, 2011 was the payout for October. Halloween made some great sales for me and with 10 lenses in tier one, I made $1,074.93.
  Best payout yet!
• January 12, 2012 received the payout for November. Slight drop off after Halloween and before major Christmas shopping. Still quite good at $997.36. It dropped about $77 but I'm not complaining.
• February 13, 2012 was the payout for December. Christmas earnings were good, so my payday was $1,360.82. That's the best I've ever had.
• March 14, 2012 was the payout for January. I expected it to drop after the Christmas high, but wish it hadn't dropped this much.
  Total paid in cash via PayPal was $852.52. About half of my lenses did not earn anything, meaning they didn't rank in tier one, two or three and did not sell anything through Amazon or eBay.
• April 14, 2012 - payout for February. Up a bit from last month. $881.43
  To give some perspective, this is about double what I made in April 2011. It's a huge improvement over the $9 that I made in April 2010.
• May 10, 2012 - payout for March. Down a bit, but not too bad. $824.95 was the payout.