Squidoo Means People - My Superheroes!
Squidoo.com is a brilliant concept. The cosmic law of giving and receiving has been realized beautifully throughout all aspects of Seth Godin's creation. The huge community of kind and generous members make Squidoo.com well worthy of superhero status. In this lens I will attempt to honor Squidoo.com by highlighting some of the many Squidoo superheroes I have encountered on my joyous journey as lensmaster.
The First Seven Superheroes In My Squidoo World
Motivating, inspiring, energizing, role-modeling, tutoring, guiding...
Seth Godin changes my mind. Let's take this example from his blog: "Your sales force and your customers may scream that you need to lower your price. It's not true. You need to increase your value. If people don't want to pay, it's because you're not delivering enough value for the money you're charging." As a small business owner selling my artisan products at farmers markets, I think about my prices all the time. Seth's blog post stopped me cold in my tracks. His advice changed my paradigm. Here was a completely different concept of looking at my business: What is the perceived value of my product? What is the story I am selling to my customers? How can I increase the value of this story? I have these kinds of "mind-altering" experiences every day when I study Seth Godin's new writings. That's why he is my Superhero.
Quality control is the ultimate responsibility of our Editor-in-Chief, Megan Casey. However, what really impresses me most is her incredible support system for newbies and experienced lensmasters alike. Megan's accessibility, her Squidoo help pages such as "6 ways to improve your lens", "Ideas for awesome lenses", and her SquidBlog articles offer a tremendous amount of encouragement through praise and inspiration to me (and thousands of others).
That's why she is my Superhero.
User-friendly design, timely upgrades, open communication, and prompt support paired with a 100-hour work week (I cannot imagine how else he could do it!) - meet Squidoo.com Engineer, Gil Hildebrand. His brilliant mind provides me with a creative home.
That's why he is my Superhero.
Inspiration is best given by example. One lensmaster caught my attention right away during the initial weeks of my Squidoo membership: Margaret Schaut. I've learned a great deal from her tutorials and Masterpiece Lenses. Please visit my superhero portrait of Ms. Schaut for a collection of exemplary lenscrafting. Margaret continues to mentor my lenswork with invaluable advice and support.
That's why she is my Superhero.
Determination is fueled by great support. One of my biggest motivators on Squidoo is lensmaster bdkz. Bonnie invited me to participate in her monthly Squidoo Charity Challenge, and she currently sponsors my efforts to become a Giant Squid.
That's why she is my Superhero.
Originality can be learned. Or, one is born with it - as it is the case with the lovely and inimitable Flowergardener. This "honey" of a generous community darling can be found most frequently in lensmaster forums offering her help to anyone who would ask. "Deb" always says it as it is.
That's why she is my Superhero.
Oneness in purpose and organic integration of mutual support systems are demonstrated beautifully by lensmaster rms. As a Giant Squid Organizer and blogger extraordinaire with her top-quality recipe site, "Cabaret Squidoo", Robin has actively supported a number of my cooking and recipe lenses.
That's why she is my Superhero.
First thing in the morning: the new stats!
The Squidoo Superhero Club
Who is your Superhero on Squidoo.com?
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Margaret Schaut - Eccentricity
I've often been told I'm 'eccentric', and the olde more...5 points
Gil Hildebrand - How We Engineered Squidoo
Founded in mid 2005, Squidoo launched in early 200 more...4 points
Seth Godin - Meatball Sundae
A meatball sundae is the unfortunate result of mix more...2 points
Megan Casey - The Lensmaster Dashboard 2.0!
You got it!It's high time to update and improve th more...2 points
bdkz - 50 Ways To Use Twitter
Twitter is an amazingly powerful tool for promotin more...2 points
TheFlowergardener - Natural Depression Treatment
Anti-depressant drugs have serious side effects th more...1 point
rms - My Lenses
Hi. I'm rms and this is a lens about me and my len more...1 point
A Song To My Superhero Squidoo Lensmasters
Your names provide the most beautiful lyrics to my music...
Ode to Squidoo Lensmasters
Scenes from the area around the Driftwood Lodge in SE Alaska, featuring the names of some of my favorite teachers on Squidoo.com. Original music by Chef Keem. www.squidoo.com/bavarianchef
Squidoo Superhero Honor Roll!
An impressive body of work by outstanding lensmasters!
Browse my collections of featured lenses by these great contributors to our community. Their super-heroic efforts have generated thousands of dollars for charitable causes!-
The Most Important Squidoo Lenses For American Politics Today - Part 1.
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Many Squidoo lensmasters have a keen sense of what is happening in America and in the world of today. Their pages are powerful documents of our reality as a nation and its citizens. American news and politics lenses might never gain the same populari...
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The Funniest Squidoo Lensmasters
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Squidoo lensmasters work hard to provide remarkable, original content in beautifully designed lenses. This lens features the lighter side of it all - the funny stuff! Funny videos, funny stories, jokes, and pictures. Funny quotes, funny animals, game...
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New York Times Most Searched Words And Phrases - As Explored By Squidoo Lensmasters
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I thought this was an interesting idea: Let's take the 50 most-searched words and phrases on the New York Times web site for the month of May 2008, and place them into the search box on a Squidoo lens. What will we find? The results were astounding...
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Squidoo House Band - The Music Of Squidoo Lensmasters!
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This is a collection of music-related Squidoo lenses, featuring masterful lensmasters sharing their expertise in a variety of musical topics. Find original music videos, tutorials on playing drums and guitar, free music download sites, great sheet m...
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Squidoo Tips And Tutorials
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This lens presents my archive of Squidoo resources: tips for beginners, how-to lenses, articles about Squidoo.com, Squidoo books, Squidoo tricks, insights, trials and errors to learn from, Squidoo tools, Squidoo help, outstanding lenses by top Squido...
Squid Angel Are My Superheroes, Too...
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Squid Angel
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SquidAngel Blessing | If you have found your way here you have probably been 'Blessed By A Squid Angel!' What just happened? Read on to find out more about Squid Blessings and more about SemperFidelis. Perhaps some randomness, as well!
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Is A Squid Angel Looking Over Your Shoulder?
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Have you been Blessed by a Squid Angel? Did you even know that there is a group of lensmasters on Squidoo who are Squid Angels? You may never even have heard of the Squid Angels. Or perhaps you know that they exist but know little about them. Well I...
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Have You Been Blessed By Squid Angel Chef Keem?
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This is your "Wall of Fame", dear fellow Squidoo lensmasters - if you've been blessed by Squid Angel Chef Keem! Please add one or more links of your blessed lenses in the plexo on this page. I'll update the "Featured Lenses" on a...
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Squid Angel Blessings by Chef Keem
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With a Squid Angel Blessing your lenses will get a boost for your lens rank, which might improve your earnings and lead to more traffic and recognition. Not bad, huh? But what does it take to receive a Squid Angel Blessing? In general, our group of...
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WHO? SquidAngels!
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Get to know the SquidAngels! We are a small group of dedicated lensmasters with special powers to bless remarkable lenses for a little LensRank (and ego) boost. We also help to keep Squidoo safe from spam and other bad apples. Did you know?: Eve...
My Other Lenses For The Squidoo Superhero Challenge!
Each one of them contributes to the Squidoo Charity Fund!
Please help to generate more money for Squidoo's great causes by rating these pages.-
My Parents - My Superheroes!
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My parents - Josef Thiemermann and Johanna Nowak - lived through some of the most difficult years in European history. They've succeeded against seemingly insurmountable odds - from the Russian front line in WWII, to famine and despair in the Austria...
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My Wife - My Superhero!
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We met online, in January of 2006. In May, we moved together into a new Austin, Texas apartment. In August, I married my wife and my superhero at a remote fishing lodge in Alaska. Soon, we'll celebrate our second anniversary. In this lens I will tel...
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The Anonymous Alcoholic - A Superhero
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We are told that most alcoholics never make it into recovery. They die prematurely - in car accidents, from liver and heart diseases, or a variety of other related causes. Of those who find the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous or similar institutions of...
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Margaret Schaut - Superhero!
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Stan Lee, the legendary creator of Spider Man, describes the genuine qualities of a superhero - integrity, courage, self-sacrifice, and honesty. Using this expert list of human virtues and additional observations about my mentor and friend as my guid...
Seth Godin's Blog - Subscribe!
Read it every day - like I do...
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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
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Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
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Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking
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Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?
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The Big Moo : Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable
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Margaret Schaut's EBook "Masterpiece Lenscrafting On Squidoo"
Can you afford NOT to learn from a master?
Seth Godin and Megan Casey were "fantastically impressed" by this work and they renamed it Masterpiece Manifesto.
From Megan's email:
"I hope you don't mind that I shared this with Seth in the office here, and we're both fantastically impressed by your effort.
The more people you can reach with your message about quality content and authentic voice and writing and recommendations, the better Squidoo will be. But more importantly, the better those people will do, and in the end, the better the web will be. Suffice it to say I think this is an important manifesto - and I actually think you could call it that."
Chef Keem's review of this ebook, 4/25/08
This ebook is written like an article - no hype, no announcements in triple bold letters, no space-wasting this or that. Here you'll find paragraph after paragraph after paragraph chock-full of invaluable information and direct guidance on "Masterpiece Lenscrafting on Squidoo". During my first quick read-through I couldn't help but gasp at the realization of glaring "mistakes" on my lenses which block my success with lensrankings and visitor numbers alike. And I learned about the "true secrets" of high rankings on Squidoo, Google, and the entire web.
Today, I'm honored with my first LOTD recognition. This book shall guide me to my second nomination and much, much more.
The author is someone we all know as one of the most successful lensmasters in the history of Squidoo. A beautifully generous mentor of the essence of Squidoo, a big-hearted angel to all sincere squidlins - Margaret Schaut.
Margaret doesn't have to prove anything, anymore. Her masterpiece lens on Michelangelo's David is one of the very few pages that has achieved #1 lensrank.
She is one of the Top 100 Club Giant Squids, a 4-time LOTD recipient, a "retired" Citizen Squids, blogger and multiple group master. That's enough credibility for me. Wouldn't you agree?
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dc64 wrote...
I've been sitting here going through more of your lenses, and time just flies by because they are so creative and interesting. The ideas you come up with for squidoo lenses are impressive. Keep it up, that way, I know I'll always have something good to read!
Posted December 18, 2008
JaguarJulie wrote...
Just dropping by to check our your superheroes on squidoo! ;)
Posted December 06, 2008
ElizabethJeanAllen wrote...
Great lens...I don't think you've ever produced a dud. If you did its buried in the Land of the Lost Squid. Now that's an idea for a lens...
Thanks for the blessing.
Lizzy
Posted November 19, 2008
hunnydoodle wrote...
OH, HOW TRUE! YOU ARE SMITTEN, HONEY! AND I'M NOT TALKIN' ABOUT ME. YOU'RE DEFINITELY A BONAFIDE "SQUIDOO-HEAD"! But really, it is your perfect palette for self expression in a pure, and giving way. How could I not love you! (see why we need a bigger bed?)lol
Posted August 08, 2008
Hi,
I love your lens. Given you the 11th 5-star.
Check out my 1st lens "Weight Loss and Back Pain".
Thank you.
Posted July 10, 2008
badmsm wrote...
Wow, that reminds me I still need to buy my Seth Godin action figure. I'll add it to my hubby's collection here in our office, so he can inspire me while I work...LOL! Thanks Chef Keem!
Posted July 01, 2008
BFuniv.com wrote...
It takes individuals to raise a village. Your recognition of this finely functioning herd of cats is wonderfully done.
Posted June 24, 2008
flowergardener wrote...
I'm humbled Chef. You have blessed me in so many ways.........some that you don't even realize! It didn't take me very long at all to know that you would become one of Squidoo's most treasured gems - even from your very first post on the forum! Here's to you my friend.....a delicious toast of strawberry/rhubarb pie with ice cream on top!
Gods Love and multitude of blessings, and mine,
Deb
Posted June 23, 2008
KimberlyDawnWells wrote...
LOL Great photo of you checking your stats. ;) Nice job!
Posted June 22, 2008
Margaret_Schaut wrote...
Wow, Achim! You really know how to pick 'em! How many mornings have I woke up like that, looking at my Squidoo dashboard stats from a long night squidooing... A great big welcome to the club! And that video, well, you've really pulled out the BIG guns and YOU ARE WELCOME, my friend!
Posted June 22, 2008
Seth's best blog posts from the last 2 years
You should write an ebook
18 points
Tribe Management
16 points
Understanding the funnel
11 points
How to get traffic for your blog
10 points
Starting over with customer service
9 points
The web doesn't care
9 points
Make something happen
8 points
How to create a great website
8 points
Permission Marketing
8 points
Seth's Blog: Building an albatross
8 points
Seven tips to build for meaning
7 points
The Long Tail and the Dip
7 points
Valley Of The Giants - A Giant Squid Blog
Great tips from Giant Squids
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