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Do you currently have goals for where you want to go with Squidoo? I know I do.
From great big dreams all the way down to little bitty chores, I’ve got all kinds of Squidoo goals.
Some Lensmasters want to pay for their kids college.
Some Lensmasters want to give a million to charity.
Still other Lensmasters want to promote their business or share their interests or have fun or read something interesting…
A dream becomes a goal with two things : Purpose and Intent. If you can decide what you want to do and why you want to do it, the how gets a lot easier.
Oh yea, and if you write the goal down on a real, live, piece of paper, you have already done more than 99% of people with ‘goals’ ever will.
What are some of your Squidoo Goals?
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 a difference. I believe the deadline is June 30 (?). SuperGiant Squid Jeff Wend has already got his SuperHero Squidoo Project off to a great start and the Giant Squids Mentor Blog has some more information on the SuperHero Project as well.
Seth Godin defines what a true SuperHero is in his mind. Pretty interesting paradox of impatience and patience..
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.
