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Web publishing: one Squidoo account or many?
If you’re a Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) subscriber, you know that I recommend that you get comfortable with Squidoo, and use it in your writing campaigns.
I don’t use Squidoo as much as I should, and that’s only because I don’t have enough time; I always seem to be working on one of my sites, or creating a new product.
One of the debating points in the Squidoo community is: should you have one account, or many?
I’m in the one account camp, chiefly because I don’t have hundreds of lenses. If you do get around 200 or more lenses, I can see where additional accounts would make sense.
Captain Squid, in “When Are Multiple Squidoo Accounts Useful?” says:
…you are seriously diluting a lot of the power you can get from having a unified account.
From the dashboard, lens labels are spectacular for handling different sections of lenses or groups. I have labels for both verticals or themes as well as by aff. network or marketing strategy. Multiple accounts make tracking this stuff a total pain.
I agree. Unless you spend all your time in Squidoo, there’s no point in having more than one account. However, to each his/ her own. It may work for you.
Selling writing products: sell Squidoo lenses
In Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON), you discover not only how and what to write, but how to sell what you write too.
In early lessons, you learn how to build Squidoo lenses, and as with everything else you learn in SYWON, you can put your new skill to work to make money.
Why not create some “for sale” lenses, as others do?
Create lenses and sell them
I’ve been paying more attention to my Squidoo lenses lately because they’re a great source of backlinks and therefore traffic to my other Web sites and blogs.
I don’t sell lenses, but if I were looking for an additional income stream, I certainly would do. A lens with six or seven modules takes me around half an hour to create, and since lenses sell anywhere from $40 to $200, it’s worth doing.
Enter “buy Squidoo lens” into Google, and you’ll find others who are crafting and selling lenses, which shows that there’s a demand. Many people would like to use Squidoo and fit lenses into their overall marketing, but they don’t want to take the time to build lenses from scratch. This is where you come in.
Transfer a Squidoo lens
Once you’ve sold the lens, you click a button, as above, and transfer the lens to the new owner. Very easy and simple.
Make money with Squidoo: your free online goldmine
In the early lessons of Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) Web writing training I show you how to get a Web site online for free using Squidoo.
Squidoo can make lot of money for you, and it’s a lot of fun too. Here’s SYWON’s lens on Squidoo.
I suggest that you make using this free application part of your business plan, and spend a little time creating lenses every day.
Popular blogger PotPieGirl writes:
Through process and elimination, I learned how to generate real live income from those free pages at Squidoo. I couldn’t believe it! I kept duplicating my process, trying new things and removing ineffective things until it became a simple, daily action plan that I did every day.
After a bit of time, all the parts came together into a whole and money started to come in consistently. It felt like a miracle! And it was all because of this simple little action plan I put together. I was then able to pay the bills AND fund my online business so I could create my own niche sites and have things like website hosting and an auto-responder.
Best part of all – I was no longer overwhelmed and frustrated… and THAT is PRICELESS!
So whether you’re a Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) subscriber or not, do use Squidoo to generate income. Others are doing it, and so can you.
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