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When Are Multiple Squidoo Accounts Useful?

There have been some reason discussions in the Squidoo community discussing the ever present question of how many squidoo accounts should someone have and when it makes sense to have more than one account.
The most popular reason seems to be ‘to separate niches’ or build one account for each ‘theme’ of lenses you have. An [...]

The New Web is a Platform

With the recent releases of TwittrStrm and a Facebook Connect feature for Squidoo accounts, Squidoo continues to establish itself as a truly unique player in the new web.
As the web has developed over the past decade, what you know (content) and who you know (links) have become established signals for helping people find and use [...]

Why Tip Jars and Squidoo don’t Mix

There’s a lot of talk going on today about adding ‘tip jars’ to lenses. The mechanics behind it are basically adding a link to your paypal account asking for donations.
From a technical standpoint, adding some kind of personal donation or ‘tip jar’ to your lenses is definitely possible. However, from a ‘money making’ view, they [...]

New Squidoo Workshop. Much Rejoicing throughout the land.

Squidoo HQ officially announced the launch of their new Workshop today. It’s pretty. It’s fast. It looks wayyy more like what you will end up with when you are done.
some juicy little tidbits
Giants Only: Templates can now be inserted directly into a lens. The possibilities for this are huge…
adding popular modules in just a click [...]

The Power of Communication in Making Money

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 [...]

The Fastest $2 you ever gave

Squidoo is taking a huge ($80,000) chunk of their earnings earmarked for charity and allowing people to vote on where the money should go.
Go to the Squidoo Charity Giveaway lens and vote for your favorite charity. once. Then, tell all your friends to do it. Each vote will result in $2 going to the charity [...]

A Guide to Squidoo Earnings Payouts

From new and veteran lensmasters alike I often see the question of ‘How do the Squidoo Adsense Payouts work?’. While the Squidoo FAQ on Payment does an okay job of explaining this, I decided to take a stab at some of the finer points of the monthly Squidoo payout and how it works.
All about Adsense [...]

Make a bajillion dollars online the Easy way

Sound familiar?
Make huge piles of money with no work and no effort, anyone can do it regardless of who you are?
Sorry, not this time.
Why can’t everyone just be rich? That would fix everything, right?
Squidoo is an awesome tool and is used by tons of people to raise money for charity, make a little money, tell [...]

Squidoo Earnings Break 3,000 a Month

Well, there must be something about getting married that helps to kick it up a notch because for whatever reason, July was my best month ever from Squidoo by far!
I didn’t quite reach the $4,000 level this month but I was well over $3,000 which is a first for me.
Note: I count the paypal payment [...]

Thanks Squidoo! It Pays to Be A Giant Squid

The Giant Squid Organizers send me a super special treat! My dog, Tank, stole it and wanted to show that he too had what it takes to be a Giant Squid…. I’m not sure, what do you guys think? (click thumb to enlarge, big photos…)