Some Fun Facts about my time on Squidoo:

I began using Squidoo right around when there was 100,000 lenses.. Now I think there’s close to a million.

I’ve got somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 lenses. While I’ve slown down my output a bit since moving to Singapore (so much to do and so little time!) I’m hoping to maintain my rate of better than a lens a day for the foreseeable future. It’s too profitable and fun not too!

I’ve had multiple lenses earn over $1,000 in a single month.

I’ve had a nice handful of lenses earn over $100 in a single month.

I’ve got hundreds of lenses that have only ever earned pennies. (and that’s okay! Success with no failure is pretty boring..)

I was an original Giant Squid and Giant Squid 100 member.

I started Squidtop – a Blog network for lensmasters that is building up a nice community. I’ve got plans to make this even more awesome in the near future, if you want to help, let me know!

The Isle of Squid lens directory has grown to include thousands of hand reviewed lenses representing some of the best that Squidoo has to offer. This is another project that I’m hoping to expand in coming months and if you want to help, let me know!

I’ve met some amazing people from not only across the US but across the entire world. Some of you folks are truly amazing!

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and so much more I can’t think of right now…

Here’s to another 2 years and beyond of Making Money and Having Fun!!!

If you haven’t had a chance to go look at a lens in the last few days, go take a peek. It’ okay… I’ll wait.

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Okay, so it looks a little bit different. And Squid U certainly noticed. I left my two cents on the update, but I’ll re-cap here.

Personally, I think they are pretty good.

1) I don’t like the ‘Loyalis Recommends’ in my sidebar. If you are going to have a lensroll function, I would prefer that it didn’t look like I was explicitly endorsing lenses that I’ve never seen before. Also, when you use Primary Tag Domination, it results in having your sidebar lensroll and the orange explore box with the exact same links… that’s kinda boring IMHO.

2) umm…. I see the sidebar image issues were fixed in my sleep! Nice work.

As HQ is progressing and working on their layouts and designs, I have been impressed with the way they have handled the criticism, etc. They have been exceptionally patient in explaining their motivations for changes and improvements to Squidoo and this patience is often overlooked.

I think there may be some argument to directing some of the redesign efforts to improved things like tag pages, the workshop (which is becoming a little divorced from the reality of what’s presented), as well as some re-designed ‘central navigation’ areas that make it easy to find some super cool lenses…oh and a pony for Gil..

Great work Guys, keep it up.

Thoughts or comments?

Take a deep breath…. and mosey on over to the Squidoo Forums. Affectionately nicknamed Squid U the forums have the best community I have found on the internet. Take a look around, and a lot of your basic questions can be answered as you encounter them.

What are you waiting for? Jump in and start churning out those lenses. If you get stuck, you can always drop a line to the friendly Captain, or stalk the forums for a while and see if you can get your questions answered. The most important thing is that you get going.

“What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.”

— Aristotle

-The Captain