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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 [...]

Weekly Squidoo News in Review – Monthly Wrap Up

Since this is the last Squidoo News edition of the month, I thought I’d wrap up some of the exciting new additions to the world of Squidoo in February. As the end of the month draws near, make sure you spruce up your lenses one last time for that April payout!
I received a mention in [...]

My Squidoo Dashboard Wishlist

I’ve been trying to pound out some lenses today and have been struggling (as usual) with the unwieldy size of my dashboard. Having 300 lenses listed in one place is great for my ego, but not for getting anything productive done. Opening multiple accounts doesn’t really solve much but forcing me to remember more logins [...]

5 Common Misconceptions about Squidoo

I’m constantly amazed at the people I find on forums that are still stuck in last summer and convinced that Squidoo is worthless as a tool for promotion or for making money. Their loss, my gain I suppose..
However, there are some common lensbuilding and squidoo techniques that many people use that are just plain wrong. [...]

How to Promote All your SquidCasts at once

Ok, the new Squidcasts are pretty awesome. Let’s talk about why for a minute.

You can now communicate directly to your visitors with little thoughts and tidbits. This is awesome.
You can announce new events or updates across the squidoo universe (well, YOUR squidoo universe)

This is good. Really good.
But how do you promote your squidcasts to [...]

First Squidoo Newsletter Coming!

The First Captain Squid Newsletter, packed with some good little nuggets of squidoo knowledge, should be arriving in your inboxes in the next day or so.
I’ve moved the newsletter list over to a new service (I wasn’t satisfied with the old one’s interface) so expect a confirmation e-mail to drop into your mailbox today [...]