Squidoo Ebay Challenge Lenses Complete - Know the Rules
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Note: If you are coming into this little adventure late make sure and catch up with the first parts of my ebay squidoo challenge tips narrative: The Intro and Bonus offer, targeting ebay users, featuring fun products, building out an ebay niche.
I finished up my final submission for the Squidoo - Ebay Challenge contest. For the last lens I wanted to show how you could create an informative, educational, or ‘how-to’ lens and still promote eBay products.
Once again cruising Ebay Pulse, I went to the board game section and found that Monopoly of course dominates. As a kid I loved Monopoly so it was an easy sell to make a Monopoly lens. But what topic to cover? It’s not exactly easy to find something controversial about Monopoly… or is there? I ended up building the final lens on Monopoly House Rules.
Everyone who has ever played Monopoly knows that the rules can seem to change from person to person depending on what their ‘House Rules’ are. How to use this?
Create a Plexo - I put together a plexo with a pile of famous ‘House Rules’ in it and encouraged people to vote on their favorite rules as well as add their own. This really encourages interaction on the lens and it really is a topic that everyone has an opinion on.
Feature Unique Items - Since this lens is probably going to be found by people who either are Monopoly die-hards or friends and family of Monopoly die-hards I try to include rare, unique, or vintage items. Displaying things that you don’t really see anywhere else and you wouldn’t think of searching for if you just visited eBay works very well.
So now that I have all the lenses for the challenge I shot off an e-mail to ebayaward- at -squidoo.com to let them know I’m all set!
What’s next? I’ll add a little more content here and there to some of the lenses before the final judging and I may tweak my tags a bit more, but the lenses are basically done and ready to go.
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Comments
Great lens Captain. I really like the way you added most of your content to the Plexo module. I need to use the Plexo more often.
Thanks,
Fred
Hi Captain,
I just wanted to say Thank you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with others in such a generous way. This contest really lit a fire in me to make the most of the ebay affiliate program.
I’ve only been a registered affiliate with them for one month and never did anything because it all seemed a tad complicated to me.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to complete the challenge but Thankfully I made my first ebay sales commission ever today!
I really have you to thank for that as I studied your information including instructions on how to set up the ebay feed in Squidoo.
I actually completed my one and only lense featuring ebay products one week ago, on Saturday June 7th and made my 1st commission sale from an auction today.
To your continued success,
Sunshine
Congrats, Capt. I like the lenses you’ve made so far–good work. I thought about joining the eBay Challenge..but I think I’m too chicken to go up against the Captain.
Good luck!
(also, your link to the eBay challenge lens is a bit….broked.)