Only time will tell how beneficial Squidoo will be both to the lensmasters and lens readers, but I think it’s a creative approach as a starting point for content. Don’t quit your day job yet, but you should know that as we all grow, our goal as a co-op is to pay as much money as we can to our lensmasters and to charity. Then, with no other deductions, we pay 5% of our post-expense revenue directly to the charity pool, 50% directly to our lensmasters and retain the rest to pay off investors and employees. That’s direct out of pocket expenses like rent and servers and salary and benefits expenses (our CEO doesn’t take a salary, and neither does our board of directors). We divide up the money we receive in a very public way. Between Amazon and Google AdSense, Squidoo promises to divide up the revenue in the following manner: In this video, I will show you how to earn 15 per minute by liking videos. I was eager to make my first lens (what a. At the time, Squidoo was the perfect platform for this because traffic was good and the site was growing. I had written for other sites in the past but was looking for a place where I could write even more articles and have it reach a larger audience. Squidoo’s business model centers around advertising. We (Everyday Money) are not, in any way, affiliated with or representing PayPal. It was October 2012 when I first discovered Squidoo. For my lens, I took the approach of providing a reference source for learning about RSS feeds. Pre-defined modules include text lists, link lists, RSS, Amazon, jobs via Indeed, Flickr, and Google Maps. You simply choose the ones you want, put them in order, and then add the content. Squidoo provides a bunch of different modules that can be added to the lens. To try out Squidoo, I created the following lens: What is RSS? Users can read through the information provided by the “lensmaster” and obtain a better understanding of the topic or use the lens as a starting point for a more thorough dive into the area. It’s a place to start, not finish.įor the end-users browsing Squidoo, a lens (well, the good ones at least) can provide a comprehensive overview of a category of information. More specifically, a lens is a single web page filled with information and links that point to other web pages, to continually updated RSS feeds, or to relevant advertising. For the publisher of a Squidoo lens, the advantage is the ability to create another resource to highlight expertise on a subject providing users a great starting point on a particular topic.Ī lens is one person’s (lensmaster’s) view on a topic he or she cares about. Also, many lensmasters have been around for quite some time, and reality is you need to know what THEY know in. With about half a million Squidoo pages (lenses) now and 239,270 Squidoo lensmasters (as of this writing), the popularity, the power, and the profit potential of Squidoo is becoming quite lucrative AND competitive. The service is more of a mini portal to different topics. Affiliate marketing on Squidoo has gotten to be a tough business. Squidoo can’t be evaluated against creating a blog or having a web site. Some have questioned the usefulness of the service, but I have to disagree. As Seth Godin’s brainchild, I had been meaning to fully check Squidoo out for some time now. I finally had a chance to play around with Squidoo last night and I’m impressed.
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