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Entries Tagged ‘Squidoo Earnings’

New Squidoo Training Center Now Open

The Captain has been slaving over a hot computer monitor all weekend getting a new treat ready for you all. There is now a separate part of the Captain Squid site where I’ve compiled resources, tools, and other nifty stuff to help you guys make more money as quickly as possible. The ‘Tools’ section and [...]

February 2008 Squidoo Earnings Payout Tops $600

It’s my favorite day of the month! Booty Day!
Here’s the Breakdown:
Squidoo Payout: $247.98
CJ: $401.69
Total: $649.67
Lenses Built : 32 (woefully short of the number I need to get to 1,000 lenses)
Total Lenses (as of 2/7/08) : 283
Where the lenses fall: (These numbers should be read as ‘the number of lenses in the top X,XXX on my [...]

Squidoo Tip of the Day: Squidoo Product Descriptions

If you are building a new lens with any kind of Amazon, CafePress, or other products that Squidoo allows you to add descriptions to, add a short description.
Many people often forget that if the picture is a giant stuffed elephant and the title says ‘plush toy’ or something similar, Google thinks that is a picture [...]

New Squidoo Feature – Exporting your Earnings

If you open up your Squidoo Dashboard and click on ‘Stats‘ a screen that looks like the following should pop up. Notice anything different?
There’s a new Lens Royalties Tab!
Click on it and you get a huge list of your earnings for your lenses for a particular month including groups. There’s also an export button
For all [...]

Squidoo Payout Earnings Report : January 2008

Note: The Earnings included in this report are November 2007 earnings directly from Squidoo and Commission Junction Earnings from December 2007
Unfortunately, This month’s earnings from Squidoo and CJ activities was not as zesty as I had hoped. All told, My payout dropped by about 50% from last month, down to about $275.
�Squidoo Earnings for November [...]

Squidoo Has Earned me $100 in 5 Days

It’s not quite time for a full earnings update for December (which I’m unfortunately expecting to be a bit lower than Nov.) but I thought I’d let everyone know how January Earnings at squidoo are going so far:
Dashboard Earnings: $0.56 … Not too impressive
CJ Earnings:

In December, I saw some great growth in my Dashboard earnings [...]

1000 Squidoo Lenses – Too Much Rum for Cap

The New Year is a time for goal setting. Anything is possible. Looking back on 2007 and my Squidoo experience, I get really excited.
Excited about the people I’ve met.
Excited about the potential of Squidoo.
Excited about helping others learn about it.
I’ve set a new Squidoo goal for myself in the 2008 year.
I want to have 1,000 [...]

Dec 2007 Squidoo Earnings Report: $575

Arrrr…. The booty has been counted for another month of Squidoo earnings and the Captain has done quite alright.
Squidoo Earnings are based on October Sales from Squidoo ‘Money Maker’ Modules and Adsense Revenue. CJ Earnings are based on November Earnings.
Squidoo: $192.46
CJ: $382.33
Total: $574.79
This was the Captain’s best month ever for both segments, nearly doubling the [...]

Squidoo Payday Nov 2007 : It’s booty Time!

Yesterday afternoon was Squidoo Payday and The Captain was pleased. Passing over $120 in Adsense share combined with CJ payouts for the month of over $160 puts the month’s earnings at near $300/mo. So, Lewis’ post about earning $300/mo. from Squidoo is definitely achievable. I did it in four months.
Today’s Lens Breakdown: Nov 8, 2007
# [...]

How Squidoo eBay Commission Tracking Works

I’ve noticed a lot of curiosity on the Forums lately about how commissions actually work with eBay and Amazon.
I’ll cover each Affiliate Program in separate posts so as not to get them confused and to let everyone in on how it all works.
The eBay Commission Process

A visitor to your lens clicks on an ebay [...]