Squidoo's Greatest Failure

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What is Squidoo's greatest failure?

Why me of course!

I have decided that I really suck at this online writing/money-making game. In fact I suck worse than the most sucky thing you have ever being sucked by. I am that poor at it.

No money, no talent, no hope - heck, someone get me the Samaritans on the phone, quick.

Aha! I thought. It will be easy to make money online.

Oh dear. Yet another mistake I have made in life.

Epic Failure T-Shirt from ZazzleI should have known better, really. As a life long failure for me to expect to soar in to the upper reaches of lens heaven with pockets stuffed full of filthy lucre was just a dream. There are no Squidoo profits for me.

My three lenses sit their unloved, unread and unreadable. If you want an object lesson in how to avoid not making money on Squidoo go and read 'em. If you can stop laughing long enough you will learn what not to do if you want to be successful around here, to see Squidoo profits. It's easy. Just watch whatever I do - and do the opposite.

In fact...

...I am a multiple failure

Accident picture by Ervin Pospisil

I have not just bombed here on Squidoo, I have also bombed on HubPages (check out my Old Time Radio Programs hub if you want to mock a failure) and on Triond. A full set.

Considering I started all this writing online with the intention of avoiding starving to death and all I have so far earned is about $3, a rethink is rapidly becoming in order. Surely Squidoo profits can't be that hard too earn, I mean, everyone else seems to make it look easy and declares "Hey, I'm making a $1,000 a month". Don't you just hate those people? Oh, that's just me as well is it? Well look, I can't help it. I'm not just a failure, I'm a spiteful failure. Damn it! If I'm going down I want to see others fail as well. There is nothing us spiteful failures hate more than someone else's success.

I've even been getting death threats...

...from Seth Godin

Seth Godin

He some how found out about my success as a failure and seemed quite annoyed with me. He said "No one DOESN'T make money on Squidoo! We have people who have had lobotomies who are doing a million dollars a day. Everyone makes money on Squidoo."

"I don't," I said. There was silence. Well, apart from the grinding of teeth, or it could have been a revolver cocking. It was kind of hard to tell as Megan Casey had sneaked up behind me with a laptop power lead and was trying to strangle me.

Fortunately she tripped over Seth as he lunged at me and I managed to get away. I tell you those two are scary, a serious case for anger management classes. I suppose I shouldn't say that really as Seth has obviously forgiven me. He sent me an email the other day offering me a job. You know, for a guy who's written all those books his grammar is terrible. You've never seen sentence construction like it. He said he had "a contract out on me", I ask you. He meant he was offering me a contract, but he didn't specify what it was. Still, a job's a job- Sorry I've got to go there is someone knocking on the door.

There's nothing a failure loves more than company...

...so feel free to join in with your own failures

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