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 [...]
Fun Squidoo Stats from October 2009
– The top earner made more than $1300 for the month.
– Hundreds of people earned $100 or more.
– More than a thousand people earned more than $10.
– Lensmasters donated more than $5000 to the Squidoo Charity Fund.
– More than 90 people had 100 or more lenses all ranked in the [...]
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 [...]
As the year is drawing to a close, it’s important to remember that Dec. 31st is generally the last day you have to significantly impact your taxes for the year. One of the great things about making a few bucks online is that you have some options to reduce your tax bill through some smart [...]
Since our little piratey band has grown so much since January (like 800% !) I thought that it was appropriate to take a post and recap what you folks thought were the best posts of the past year as well as some of my personal favorites.
The Most Visited Blog Posts on Captain Squid in 2008
Can [...]
I’ve found that there are three basic levels or types of income you seem to generate when you start out trying to make a few bucks, online or off. I’ve come to think of them loosely as ‘pebbles, rocks, and sand’. If you imagine a jar that, when full, will earn you as much money [...]
September was a pretty stinky month (relatively) for earnings from Squidoo. Of course, Hurricane Ike decidedly played a role in the drop off in money made from Squidoo. However, October is quickly turning into my best month ever by far.
In fact, I broke the $500 mark in one day for the first time yesterday!
I know [...]
Now that we’ve established that rating swaps for lensrank are not worth your time, let’s talk about why doing (almost) anything for earnings from lensrank aren’t really worth it either.
Let’s take a hypothetical situation. You are a new squidoo lensmaster. You want to turn squidoo into a major income stream of yours, earning $2,000 a [...]
As a few of us were hanging out in the squidoo chat room on mIRC talking to some of the newest Giant Squids (Congrats, by the way!) I think I began to realize the true power of communication and success on Squidoo (and in most things for that matter).
Since about February this year, virtually everyone [...]
Yesterday, Squidoo HQ announced their monthly payday on each lensmaster’s account dashboard. For the first time ever, the top lenses earned well over $10. In fact, the top lenses’ adsense revenue share was $11.04!
The tiers were as follows (I’ll update Squidconomy with these a little later today):
$11.04
$1.72
$0.08
Interesting Changes afoot in payouts:
This was the first month [...]
