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Entries for June, 2008

The Captain Takes the Plunge

That’s right, The Captain is tying the knot with his beautiful fiancee!
I will be gone for a much needed vacation / wedding / and honeymoon from now until after July 4th weekend. I haven’t had any time unfortunately to pre-write any posts for you guys so you will just have to wait until I return [...]

Setting Squidoo Goals

Do you currently have goals for where you want to go with Squidoo? I know I do.
From great big dreams all the way down to little bitty chores, I’ve got all kinds of Squidoo goals.
Some Lensmasters want to pay for their kids college.
Some Lensmasters want to give a million to charity.
Still other Lensmasters want to [...]

Super Giant Squids Everywhere

In addition to the ebay challenge for lensmasters (Which ends today so get your lenses in!) there’s also been another challenge that has been stealthily sneaking around Squidoo.. the SuperHero Challenge!
This one is a little bit less demanding than the eBay contest. Simply build 5 lenses about regular everyday superheroes that you know who make [...]

Sneaky Squidoo Lens Label Trick

Okay, so after spending all day on Sunday re-tagging over 70 lenses (thank my piratey stars that the keyboard shortcuts for fast tagging still work.) based on the results of a test I was running (more on that later..) I’ve come to some conclusions about labels.
1) They save you a lot of time if set [...]

Squidoo Ebay Challenge Lenses Complete – Know the Rules

Note: If you are coming into this little adventure late make sure and catch up with the first parts of my ebay squidoo challenge tips narrative: The Intro and Bonus offer, targeting ebay users, featuring fun products, building out an ebay niche.
I finished up my final submission for the Squidoo – Ebay Challenge contest. [...]

Squidoo News : Uber Giant Challenges

I’ve decided to bring back the weekly Squidoo News Updates, at least for now. I find that it helps me keep track of all the great ideas I’m finding that people are writing about.
First,  a shameless plug. I Answered a question over on the Giant Squid mentor Blog by a fantastic new lensmaster (JigsawForte) on [...]

Squidoo Earnings Report May 2008

Okay, Okay, I know I’m late with this but the first few days of the month were crazy go nuts busy.
Overall income saw a bit of a drop this month, but not the end of the world by any means as I had a few new affiliate programs start to pan out after going through [...]

Ebay-Squidoo Challenge Day 5 – Niche Build Out

Sorry for the lack of Ebay Challenge Updates folks, I got a little carried away. On Saturday morning I found a niche on eBay Pulse and was going to create a second ‘product’ lens to show you folks a few other little tricks.
Unfortunately the niche got a little carried away with me and here I [...]

Ebay Squidoo Challenge Day 2 – Rubik’s Cubes

On to Day two of the Ebay Squidoo Challenge and I’m starting to pick up a little steam.
For my second lens in the contest I chose to do a product based lens, specifically Rubik’s Cubes and Variants.
Good tips from this lens:

Less can be more – Notice how I use fewer than the standard 3 listings [...]

Squidoo Ebay Challenge Lens 1- eBay Seller Scales

Alright all you squids and squidettes hold on to your tentacles.
The first lens by the good ole Captain for the Ebay – Squidoo 10 Day Challenge is live and ready for action.
The first topic I chose to cover was eBay shipping and postage scales.  I chose it for several reasons:

I know the topic – I’ve [...]