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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 with my piratey antics in a few weeks.
Hey, even pirate captains get a break every once in a while!
Squidoo Virtual Intern Derrick Kwa has started off a little initiative to talk a little bit more about squidoo and business.
He’s started up a new network over on Ning called SquidBusiness. Since I occasionally moonlight as a personal finance blogger as well as being a huge business nut / Capitalist freak in general, I thought it was a great idea to spark some honest discussions about Squidoo and Business.
I’ve got some juicy money theory that I’ve been mulling over about Squidoo that I’ll probably share first over there.
If you are interested in that kind of thing, swing by and check it out. I’m not talking about ‘how do I sell my e-book’ kind of ‘business’ I’m talking about things like:
How to effectively value/measure ROI on a lens
Volume versus quality, how do you balance them
How to invest your earnings
Do you need to pay taxes on Squidoo Earnings? How Much? (btw, if you don’t know, the answer to this one is YES but there are some other tax considerations as well..)
I’m looking forward to it as I haven’t really met anyone that likes to talk about money as much as I do… but 10 or 100 other people combined can probably talk as much as I do.. 
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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 lenses looks like:
Here’s what the Daily Digest front page looks like:
Here’s one from Megan at HQ on the page where you add labels (love the checkboxes!)
My thoughts -
The New labels function is going to go miles for me in turning lenses into manageable groups. Maybe a traffic, revenue, and lens count on each label and filter page as well as the current daily digest? That would really let you see how segments of your lenses are performing which would be huge.
A pending revenue total on the daily digest would be sweet.
The ‘Top lens of the day’ section on the Daily Digest could have Today’s traffic as well so you could see how well it was doing today.
the ‘Needs some love’ section could probably go without the lenses I have in WIP, but some lensmasters may want it to include WIP lenses …
The sorting function by traffic is a little buggy. (Disclaimer: HQ is still ironing out tons of UI stuff so that’s probably where this is coming from)
Being able to set labels or filters based on things like # of stars or LR or traffic would be sweet. For example, say I want to track the # of lenses I have between LR 20,000 and 50,000 on one list…
Overall, I think it is going to be a bajillion times better than the previous incarnation. I can’t wait to see what they do to the workshop!
What do you guys think?
