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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 [...]

One Year of Squidoo and 368 Lenses Later

I started using Squidoo one year ago today (give or take 24 hours) and in that time I’ve:

Built 368 lenses (just over 1 a day!)
Been a Citizen Squid, Giant Squid, Squid Angel, forum mod, and all around Squidoo helper.
Started a blog about Squidoo (this one)
Started an auction site for Squidoo Lenses
Started a lens directory [...]

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 [...]

Squidoo Income Report | April 2008

April ended up being a banner month for the Captain and his Roving Band of Squidoo Piracy. Earnings have continued to increase each month I have been a part of squidoo and reached a new record high in April. Some of these earnings came from websites that I have used squidoo exclusively to promote but [...]

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 ) [...]

Moving and Upgrading – Don’t mind the Ugliness

I upgraded the Captain to WordPress 2.5 and, shockingly enough, the custom theme I had hand built decided to go nutso. (Note: this is not really shocking).
As a result I grabbed the first theme I saw and threw it up. I’ll work on making it look a little more piratey tonight.
Anyone know a good WP [...]

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 [...]

Ebay Partner Network Goes Live

No, this isn’t an April Fool’s Joke. Ebay has officially made the split from Commission Junction to become it’s own stand alone affiliate program.
For the month of April, all the links for both Commission Junction and eBay will be live. All the links you have switched over to the new ebay program will earn an [...]

Captain Squid Guest Posts with PotPieGirl

I wrote a guest post for PotPieGirl yesterday exploring some new tricks I’ve learned about getting passive backlinks with YouTube modules.
I haven’t published that trick anywhere else, so it’s worth checking out. PotPieGirl runs a great marketing and SEO blog and talks a lot about actual implementation of theories you hear so much about.
Thanks for [...]

Captain Squid Squidoo Interview with Gadget Guy and the Guru

I was interviewed today about Squidoo today by the Gadget Guy and the Small Business Guru. I thought it went really well, we talked about some Squidoo basics and how you can use it as a part of your marketing strategy.
The full interview is about 30 minutes long and can be found here.
This was my [...]