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Entries Tagged ‘challenge’

Super Giant Squids Everywhere

In addition to the ebay challenge for lensmasters (Which ends today so get your lenses in!) there’s also been another challenge that has been stealthily sneaking around Squidoo.. the SuperHero Challenge!
This one is a little bit less demanding than the eBay contest. Simply build 5 lenses about regular everyday superheroes that you know who make [...]

Squidoo Ebay Challenge Lenses Complete – Know the Rules

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. [...]

Squidoo News : Uber Giant Challenges

I’ve decided to bring back the weekly Squidoo News Updates, at least for now. I find that it helps me keep track of all the great ideas I’m finding that people are writing about.
First,  a shameless plug. I Answered a question over on the Giant Squid mentor Blog by a fantastic new lensmaster (JigsawForte) on [...]

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 [...]

Ebay – Squidoo Challenge Bonus Offer and Tips

As many of you have probably heard, Squidoo is sponsoring a contest for eBay users masterminded by Giant Squid and Powerseller Katiyana. The Challenge? Build 10 lenses in 10 days from June 4 – June 17th about eBay. There are of course, lots of fabulous prizes and exposure up for grabs including an eBay Live [...]