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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 [...]

Squidoo Dashboard Extension Updated

Magicality has updated the Squidoo Dashboard Extension for the new Squidoo Dashboard. Currently it only offers totals and averages of your lenses, but it’s still nice because it will give you a revenue total on your current pending dashboard lenses and such.
If you were going through withdrawal, download the updated squidoo DE here. See the [...]

New Squidoo Lens Dashboard Sneak Peek – Screenshots

Squidoo HQ is releasing their new dashboard (possibly as early as tomm morning!) and I’ve got some sneak peek pics for you guys to ogle over!
This thing is going to be awesome for lens management, with filters, labels, and lots of other goodies.
Without further adieu, here are some screenshots!
This is what a list of labeled [...]

Analyzing the Squidoo Dips

Memorial Weekend was very ‘Dip’ like for me. I kept having things break, publishers discontinue their affiliate programs, lenses fall out of google like a rock, etc.
While frustrating, it’s certainly not the first time I’ve had a few days like that and it wont be the last. It did get me to thinking on the [...]

Announcing SquidTop : Custom Blogging for Squidoo

The light posting for the last week hasn’t gone by without something getting done. I’ve developed a custom blogging platform for Squidoo Lensmasters!
I’m Proud to introduce SquidTop!
What is SquidTop?
Squidtop is a site that allows you to create your own blog to talk about your squidoo lenses, accomplishments, progress, or any other topic you desire. What’s [...]

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 ) [...]

Is PepperJam part of your Squidoo affiliate plan?

There was a huge hubub a few months ago when the PepperJam Affiliate Network (run by Kris Jones) opened to the public. I signed up early in their release but I wanted to use the system a while before I threw my 0.02 in on the issue.
How does PepperJam stack up?
Dashboard
All of the graphics and [...]

Ebay Affiliate Feed Generator Live and Updated

Ok, folks after working my piratey butt off for the past few days I was able to finish updating my RSS feed generators for eBay. Here’s a few things I learned the hard way.
1. eBay’s reporting is still slow.
2. when eBay (or my generator or whatever) asks for your ‘Campaign ID’ , that is the [...]