Marketing Yourself With Squidoo

July 15, 2008 by Chris
Filed under: Marketing

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You may have noticed my links, but if you haven’t visited Squidoo, you’re missing a great opportunity to market yourself. With Squidoo, you create pages that are called lens. A lens is a static page, your canvas as it were, to create a page about a topic of your choice. It can be your love, like writing. It can be a focus of your life, perhaps health. It can be a hobby, a place you love, anything. Then the fun starts.

Squidoo works in a controlled type of set up like Blogger. You are given choices of modules to add to your lens. Some are basic like text areas and lists. Other modules are money-making like Amazon and NetFlix. There’s even modules for eBay and ArtByUs to feature your auctions. You pick and arrange the modules as you please. More than one of a type can appear on your page. You are allowed to use some basic HTML to customize the look and feel of your lens.

What are the benefits to you? Visibility. The site gets a great deal of traffic. The format is very attractive too. A visitor wants to browse lens. Lens are fun to create. You can have more than one. Some people have lots of lens–over 100. Then there’s the money. When you add that Amazon module, you can add your associate ID, if you have one. You do make money on other revenue-focused modules. So does Squidoo, but it’s their site.

I’ve had my lens for awhile now. Other than Zazzle, it has been my best paying non-art outlet. Nice too that my earnings can be sent to my PayPal account. Here are some examples of my lens.

Writing My First Mystery

Weborg Lodge Studio

Doing the Door–Door County, Wisconsin

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Kimberly at Squidoo on Wed, 16th Jul 2008 12:16 pm

Welcome to Squidoo! There are tons of ways to use Squidoo, including some of the tips you shared above. Be sure to stop by our peer-driven forum at http://www.squidu.com/forum to learn more.

Have fun!
~Kimberly
Squidoo’s Community Organizer