One Squidoo Lens, One month, $1,000
For the first time today, one of my lenses has made me over $1,000 in a month. Not all of my lenses, one. This is a huge milestone for me and I’m super duper excited about it!
It’s taken me almost a year of steady lensbuilding ( 11 months to the day to be exact ) to get to this point and I have to say, things are looking like they are only going to snowball from here. Last month I began to have my first few $100 days from just revenue generated from squidoo. This was hugely exciting and began to show what really happens once you reach that ‘critical mass’ of lenses.
Now I’ve earned $1,000 in a 30 day period from a single lens. That is also very very cool.
Will the earnings from this lens carry on forever? I doubt it.
Will I be able to use the lessons I’ve learned from this lens and the nearly 400 others I’ve built to continue to build lenses that make money? You betcha.
The best advice I have? Learn, Innovate, and be stubborn. Keep working at your ‘Squidoo skills’ and it will pay off for you.
Of course, I created a lens about my $1,000 / month Squidoo lens and what it took to get there that tells a little bit of the story if you would like to check it out.
What’s my next goal? Earning $1,000 a day with squidoo.
Plus, I just had to try the ‘grab a plexo’ feature since I’d never used it before so here goes:
Feel free to ask questions, but for obvious reasons I probably won’t answer ‘what lens is it?’ and other similar questions but I’d be more than happy to answer more general ones.

April 19th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Big congrats! That’s a great milestone. I surely wouldn’t tell what lens it was either. I probably wouldn’t even tell I’d made $1000:)
April 19th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
That’s huge news! Congratulations!
It gives all the rest of us a goal to aim for.
All the best,
JD
April 20th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Really, that is awesome and inspiring. Keep it up and thanks for all you do for the rest of us.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Waw!!! That’s great… Just really GREAT!! It really motivate me to optimize my squidoo lens!
A bit question for Captain:
1. The earning from Squidoo moduls only or you also use your own affiliate like CJ?
2. What Lens Rank for this $1000 earning?
Many thanks for the answer!
April 20th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Congratulations. That’s very impressive – must have taken a lot of work!
April 20th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Great job! Your success gives us newbees hope.
Liz
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:06 am
WoooooHooooooooooooooo!!!!
Congrats! Now that is a REAL Squidoo success story!
::::standing ovation for Captain Squid!::::
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
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April 23rd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
OK! You found the mother load – Your Golden Goose Super!
April 24th, 2008 at 6:20 am
Bigtime congrats Now that would make a very interesting Squidoo guide:):)
April 24th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Way to go Captain Squid!
I just had one of my lenses break the $1000.00 dollar mark this month too…and it is definitely exciting to watch one lens make that kind of money for you!
Definitely makes you want to make ten or twenty more!
Congratulations!
Stephen
April 25th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Take it from another Giant Squid and Squid Angel, this is an awesomely amazing task indeed; i.e., to earn $1,000 from a single lens on Squidoo in a one-month period. Captain Squid has got tongues-a-wagging indeedy. A big hearty congrats to you. Woo-hoo!
April 26th, 2008 at 8:29 am
What a nice milestones you have there… Keeep Going Captain
April 27th, 2008 at 12:52 am
This gives me hope to go and shoot for my goal of $1,000. per month PLUS!
April 29th, 2008 at 8:58 am
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April 30th, 2008 at 4:16 am
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April 30th, 2008 at 4:17 am
Nice good luck for you and us
April 30th, 2008 at 11:08 am
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April 30th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Loyalis,
Major congrats. You’ve just set the standard for the rest of us. Your success story is plastered all over the net. Just stopped by to pat you on the back.
~Music Resource~
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Hope I do so! Do you know hubpages ?
May 14th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
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May 15th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Great job, captain way da go. I hope I can achieve a similar milestone. Been checking out your squid training stuff nice…I got a question on some of it so shoot me an email
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Congratulations Captain Squid! That’s quite an accomplishment. I have a lens (in another account) that made me $1050 but that was over a 3 month period. Your accomplishment would make a nice info-product if how you did it can be duplicated.
May 30th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Fabulous news!!! and so encouraging to all of us who are just starting out! Thank you! You have set a new goal for me for sure! now goals include 100 lenses by Christmas 2008 and $1000/mo in 3 months. (already been at this a month or so and I am in a hurry!)
June 4th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
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June 4th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
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July 20th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Hey Captain Squid, this is fantastic news. One day I hope to be a Giant Squid but I’m still a Squidling with just 10 lenses, not enough to organise into categories yet on (what will be) my lensography.
What amazes me is how quickly some of you enormous Squid have put together hundreds of lenses, wow, that’s dedication.
This little Squidlet in the nursery looks at you with huge admiration.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:15 am
hai, congratulations captain, this is a great news, keep it up, all the best for ur further ideas.
October 12th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Now I know why they call you Captain Squid. Big ups to you Captain.
Your an inspiration to marketers like myself who on occassion feel as though I’m hitting my head on a brick wall, until someone like you comes along and steers me in the right direction.
$1000.00 a day for someone like you will be more then achievable Captain Squid, look forward to hearing about that.
Thanks and congratulations once again.
Assasinmum.
November 14th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Great lens !!! Its these stories that keep me motivated and building new lens’s.
Thank You,
SD
December 9th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Is your traffic still growing? What are your lenses about anyways? I need specifics here bro!
Thanks Captain.
December 30th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
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February 28th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Congratulations! That’s a very impressive achievement
$1000/day though, that’ll take some luck I think!
March 27th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Congrats!! I have been reading all of your posts over the last few weeks in preparation for diving into lens building and this is by far the most inspiring for me. I am curious about how many hours per day over the last 11 months you have put into your “steady” lens building?
March 31st, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Captain Squid…YouDaMan!! I wish I could get you to take me by the hand and show me step by step what to do to be as successful as you.
August 22nd, 2009 at 10:41 pm
I am pretty impressed with this. I am new to Squidoo and reading your blog has provided me with the inspiration to try and reach this lofty goal. This shows me anything is possible.
August 29th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Wow!
$1000 in one month! Well Done
September 8th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
One of my lens earned me a couple of $$ wasn’t much
but $1000 in a month is awesome.
December 9th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
So how much money have you made from this since you started?
March 9th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
A $1000/mo. stream is something to be proud of friend. Nice job.
April 15th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Congratulations! I’ll have to check out your lens on how to do it! I could do with an extra $1000 a month.