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Teach Your Kids To Squidoo

Interested in helping your children build an online business? It really isn't that hard and with tools like Squidoo, it becomes even easier.

It's a known fact that Squidoo ranks really well in Google and is a perfect tool for highlighting a website.

What I don't think a lot of people realise is that it is a great way to teach kids some of the marketing basics that will set them up for later life.

This lens is designed to show you how you can teach, and coach, your children to make Squidoo Lens.

Interested in knowing more on how to Coach your kids into their own online businesses? Visit The Keys 2 Internet Marketing for more Internet Marketing help or me at Ask Charly Leetham.

Teaching Your Kids?

What Will You Find Here

  1. Young Entrepreneurs - are they special?
  2. Interview with Young Internet Entrepreneurs
  3. Want a Lens Built?
  4. Easy Things For Your Kids To Do
  6. Morgan's Cash Smart Kids
  7. Rhiannon's Cash Smart Kids
  8. Follow Charly On Twitter
  9. Rhiannon Cooks
  10. Links to the Kids Sites
  11. Which Site Do You Like Best?
  12. What Do You Think?
  13. Give Your Kids A Good Start

Young Entrepreneurs - are they special?

I have been coaching my children to build their online businesses over the last 6 to 8 months. Each child responds differently and works at their own pace.

My daughter, for example, understood the power of building a business and the work required. She was off an running in November 2007, with a simple blog and a recipe Ebook. However, before that - she started creating Squidoo lenses. On anything that took her fancy (as long as I approved them, of course). Check out her work: Rhis Lenses

My son was a bit slower to take it all up. He started making lenses but wasn't as diligent as his sister. However, he is exceptional at helping me maintain my blogs, updating posts etc. He now has his own website and is moving down the Online Marketing path.

I found that by introducing them to Squidoo, it was easy to let their imaginations go into overdrive and let them develop their own little "web pages" discussing what they wanted.

The tools within Squidoo make it easy, setup up a Text / Write, start typing; Add an Amazon module and find similar products to what your typing about.

Are my kids any different to the kids next door? I don't believe so, both have incredibly messy rooms, they forget to do their homework, don't know what "clean up" means and enjoy mucking around.

There is a YouTube video below showing an interview I did with the kids the other day talking about their businesses, I hope it shows how normal they are!

Interested in knowing more on how to Coach your kids into their own online businesses? The contact me at Ask Charly Leetham

Interview with Young Internet Entrepreneurs

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Want a Lens Built?

The children are embarking on a new part of their journey.

They will build and maintain lenses for customers, under my tutelage and ever watchful eye, for a one off payment. If you would like to take advantange of this service, please contact me at Ask Charly Leetham

Easy Things For Your Kids To Do

To Build Their Business

I am always looking for ways to encourage my kids to market their businesses, that doesn't cost money.

The two things that I have found that works really well are Blogging and Article writing. I can hear some people now saying how hard it is for youngsters to write, but let me assure you - give them a topic that they are interested in and you will be amazed at what they can achieve.

Morgan, who struggles at one level with spelling and writing, has written some wonderful articles and blog posts about one of his favourite topics, online gaming. Morgans blog posts can be viewed at RPG Guild Hall, online Role Playing Games and he has several articles published at E-Zine Articles, view Morgans articles on online role playing games.

Rhiannon has always enjoyed creative writing and has taken to blogging and writing articles like a "duck takes to water"! Her blog posts can be viewed at her Learn to Be Psychic blog and her articles on developing psychic ability are published on E-Zine articles.

The byproduct of this type of activity is that both childrens writing abilities and school work has improved incredibly.

Blogging and article writing are great ways for children to promote their online business at little to no cost.




We used this game to help the children understand cash flow and how to make their money work for them instead the other way round.

Even today, the children still speak of DooDads and Passive Income.

An excellent resource




Perhaps the e-game is more your style.

Morgan's Cash Smart Kids

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Rhiannon's Cash Smart Kids

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Rhiannon Cooks

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Links to the Kids Sites

RPG Guild Hall
Learn about RPGs, building a guild and all other good stuff.
Learn To Be Psychic
Learn To Be Psychic with That Psychic Girl
Drizzt Duorden & Forgotten Realms
Help Morgan write his Ebook - visit DrizztDuorden.com and provide some feedback.
Recipes By Rhiannon
Drop in and share Rhiannons Favourite Recipes
Great RPG information
Do you like WOW and Role Playing Games? Do you like Dungeons and Dragons? Then check this out.
Childrens Books
Enjoy books - all kids should read. Great resource

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What Do You Think?

  • ChineseKitesforKids May 16, 2009 @ 11:40 am | delete
    What a brilliant idea! Both my kids (ages 7 and 2) love the computer. It blows my mind how kids pick up this stuff. I think it's a great idea to teach your kids to Squidoo. My only fear is they will get poor ratings from people because of their lack of writing ability and such things? What's you take on that? I guess I should read the book offered? Great lens!
  • lwhitelaw Mar 31, 2009 @ 8:25 pm | delete
    Squidoo-ing is so much fun - haven't shown my son how yet but it's great idea to get him started with squidoo as an intro to internet marketing.
  • mukunda22 Mar 31, 2009 @ 1:59 pm | delete
    Wonderful to teach your children this wonderful creative Act--Squidoo-ing!!
  • OhMe Mar 31, 2009 @ 12:40 pm | delete
    Your children are amazing. I helped my grandson make a lens about Hogs.
  • Treasures-By-Brenda Feb 5, 2009 @ 4:20 pm | delete
    Your children are fantastic! Nicely done lens.

    Brenda
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Give Your Kids A Good Start


This is an audio that our children have listened to... Rich Kid Smart Kid by Robert Kiyosaki. My children have listened to this audio - on their own and really enjoyed.

More importantly, they got a lot out of it and continue to do so.

Rich Kid Smart Kid Audio by Robert Kiyosaki

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