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One more week of the lensbuilding contest

One more week of my little lensbuilding contest with Grayth and it’s looking like I might draw the short end of the stick! We’ll see how it all works out in the end. (follow contest progress here)
Either way,  the contest has given me some great new ideas for templates etc for future lensbuilding, as most [...]

Captain Draws first Blood in Amazon Contest

The Amazon Fitness Lensbuilding Competition between Grayth (troy) and myself has begun as of Sunday and I’ve scored the first Sales with $1.24 currently pending on my dashboard from the 8 lenses I have entered in the competition.
For a blow by blow of traffic stats etc for the lenses in the competiton, official judge and [...]

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 [...]

First Earnings Surface in Squidoo Quest

Our First Sale hit in the Squidoo Quest! It took a little less than 4 weeks for our first sale to come through Amazon, and only with 3 lenses published (have another venture that I’m trying to get off the ground, it’s been a time suck.).
Almost $4.00 from one sale certainly isn’t too shabby.
If we [...]

Rethinking Keyword Research

I’ve received a great response so far on my little Squidoo Quest and am noticing some repeated questions on keyword/topic research so I feel that we should dedicate a few posts here to talking about it.
Here’s my general philosophy on researching new squidoo lens topics (or new niches in general)

Don’t focus on just ‘one’ keyword [...]

Squidoo Quest Week One Update

Every week I’ll provide a brief update to my Squidoo Quest so we can track our progress together.
I’m in the process of creating some charts to summarize all of the statistics on an ongoing basis. Once this is live I’ll let everyone know so they can catch up on any weeks they missed.
Week 1:
Lenses created: [...]