A Friendly Lensbuilding Competition
This weekend I was hanging out in the Squidoo Chat room with Troy and we came up with a little competition that I think you guys (and gals) might enjoy following along with.
From Last friday (the 9th) till this coming Friday (the 16th) Troy and I will each build ten lenses.
The lenses will follow the following rules:
- Promote a product from Amazon related to the ‘fitness’ category.
- Use only Squidoo Modules and Squidoo’s Amazon Links
One month from Friday, May 16th, the group of lenses with the most Pending $$ on the Dashboard will be judged to be the winner.
The Variable that we are testing is that I will be focusing on lower cost items and hoping to make a large number of sales, while Troy will be focusing more on big ticket items in the hopes of landing a few monster commissions.
The Fluffanutta will be the impartial Judge in order to ensure fairness 
I’ll post a few example lenses later so you guys can see what we are building. May the best Amazon Sales Lensbuilder win
April 12th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
It will be interesting to see how much money you can make in such a short period of time
April 13th, 2010 at 3:34 am
Hey Captain!
Sounds interesting! Are there any limitations on how you can promote your lenses during your contest? Just curious…
April 13th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
This looks like a fascinating challenge and something I could learn from, too! Will you be sharing the methods you used to promote yoour lenses and any SEO tricks you used?
April 16th, 2010 at 11:58 am
Sounds cool. I’ve just started doing some of the amazon lens building and I’d be interested to see what you guys come up with.
April 21st, 2010 at 8:08 am
Hello Captain!
I like this challenge! Is it possible to have an example of one of your lens? I want to know how to create a lens to sell something…I want to learn…How do you promote these lens?Bye
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April 23rd, 2010 at 11:52 am
That’s a terrific idea! you guys are getting pretty good traffic already for such new lenses, I’d also be interested in how you promote your lenses and any SEO tricks you employ. Sometimes even when you promote lower cost items some buyers actually but something more expensive while at Amazon so it will be interesting which strategy gets the best results.
Thanks for sharing this, and I’ve received some great info in your chat area from Troy and yourself in the past.
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