Posted By SquidooFreak on February 6, 2010

With the winter Olympics in Vancouver coming up, a number of new skiing games has been released for various games consoles, as you would expect. On my new Squidoo Lens, Best Skiing Games, I’m taking a look at 3 of the new games, trying to lure money out of the pocket of skiing enthusiasts this year.

Are we just facing a polishing off of old stuff, have we got improvements on old games, or are we faced with true rip-offs? Get the answer to these questions, and find out what more options is available to you if you’re doing skiing in your living room this year: http://www.squidoo.com/bestskiinggames

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Posted By SquidooFreak on February 1, 2010

This is the weekly post where I normally keep my reader up to date with my lensbuilding etc., only this week I’ve decided not to do an update, but rather focus on getting some more work done.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why I’m taking this step, on the back of yet another disappointing week, but I’m confident things will change for the better, and I’m putting measures in place to ensure this.

More on that next week….

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Posted By SquidooFreak on February 1, 2010

Just a quick post to announce the addition to yet another lens in my portfolio: Best Bedroom TV

This lens came into existance on the back of me having installed the European version of the recommended Panasonic 26-inch TV, and finding it on a fantastic deal at Amazon.com.

Again – I’m following the template set out in Tiffany Dow’s 52-Week Squidoo Lens Building challenge – using strategies from the Info Product Killer guide. These have proved to work very well indeed for me.

Go and have a look at my latest creation – you can find it at http://www.squidoo.com/bestbedroomtv

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Posted By SquidooFreak on January 30, 2010

Whereas I haven’t announced any new lenses this week, simply because I’m going through one of those periods where nothing seems to work like I want it to, I’ve been working in the background for the last couple of weeks to give this site a much needed facelift.

The result is now live – as I’m happy with the way things look now – though there’s still a bit of tweaking to be done.

Got to go back and get on with building some lenses now.

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Posted By SquidooFreak on January 25, 2010

Wow – I can hardly believe it – we’re 4 weeks into 2010 already. This is my weekly update for how I’ve done with regards to my goal for this year, or should I say for the first deadline I’ve set myself for March 31st.

The first couple of weeks were awful – meaning I didn’t get any lenses published – so it could only get better, and it has! Not as well as I would have liked – but better!

Let’s recap on my aim for this week:

Current Status:

• Total Lenses: 20
• Lenses under lensrank 100k: 12 (60%)

Status Goal For Week 3:

• Total Lenses: 24
• Lenses under lensrank 100k: 14 (60%)

I did manage to get 2 new lenses published for this week, which is only half of what I set out to do, so if I was to do 4 lenses a week so far I’m now 10 lenses behind schedule. That’s a bit scary!

In a situation like this I’m going to have to have a look at whether my goals are realistic, and possibly adjust! Now – knowing what things have been like on my end these past few weeks – there’s not a lot I could have done about things, and I’m still thinking that I can turn things around, though it’s not getting ant easier if something doesn’t give quite soon. However – I believe it will.

Part of the reason why I haven’t released the amount of lenses I would have liked to is that I’m following Tiffany Dow’s 52-week Squidoo Challenge, and build my lenses to the template set out by the challenge, which gives me a lot more work to do than what I normally would have! I’m now getting more organised and familiar with the template, so I think this will improve my productivity.

Therefore I’m not going to make any adjustments just yet – but rather see how this week goes. If it doesn’t work out I will make adjustments, because I’ve decided to stick with Tiffany’s guide, and go for quality rather than quantity when it comes to building Squidoo lenses.

My aim for next week looks like this:

Current Status:

• Total Lenses: 22
• Lenses under lensrank 100k: 10 (45%)

Status Goal For Week 4:

• Total Lenses: 26
• Lenses under lensrank 100k: 13 (50%)

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Posted By SquidooFreak on January 25, 2010

This morning I’m back to announce a new Squidoo Lens I’ve built about Toy Story Toys.

This lens is a cross promotion lens for my previous lens abour Pixar movies – and there’s more of them to come. The reason why I put the toys angle on this lens is that there’s an endless amount of toys you can link to like this – in fact I could easily have built another lens on this subject as well – but also it’s an easier keyword phrase to rank for in the search engines

Gotta get back to some more lens crafting – but go and have a look at my new lens. Here’s the link again: http://www.squidoo.com/toy-story-toys.

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Posted By SquidooFreak on January 21, 2010

I’m back to announce a new squidoo lens today – my first new lens for quite some time. The lens is called Pixar Movies List.

This is the first lens I’m building as part of Tiffany Dow’s 52 weeks on Squidoo challenge – using the outline recommended by Tiffany, on the back of her own trials of using the Info Product Killer e-book with Squidoo.

I have used a similar pattern for the lenses I built toward the end of last year – and so far they’re doing pretty well – with sales starting to come through both from the Squidoo modules, but also for my own affiliate links that is built into the lenses.

I’m very confident that if I stick to the goals I’ve set for myself – 2010 is going to be a good year for me – in terms of generating a serious income online.

This lens is what is named as a feeder lens in the Info Product Killer e-book – the idea being that I can branch out from it to a number of sub lenses – and at the same time it goes quite well with my decision to do more lenses on movies. The first one of the sub-lenses has been planned out, and should be online tomorrow or the day after, so watch this space.

Here’s the link to the lens again: http://www.squidoo.com/pixarmovielist

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Posted By SquidooFreak on January 18, 2010

Back again with an update on last weeks progress in reaching my goal for the first quarter of 2010.

Again – it doesn’t look good – because I’ve been too tied up to do any work on Squidoo again last week, so I’ve not launched any new lenses. I’ve published one – but it’s not fully done yet – and I’m not going to launch it before it is ready.

This means that I’m now 2 weeks behind schedule, and I’m about to be in a position where I have to either adjust my goal, or find some extra time to build more lenses.

I’m going to keep my goal as I set it last week, because I know I’ve got a few things coming up this week, so I’m not going to be able to put in much of an extra effort. What this means in numbers is:

Current Status:

• Total Lenses: 20
• Lenses under lensrank 100k: 12 (60%)

Status Goal For Week 3:

• Total Lenses: 24
• Lenses under lensrank 100k: 14 (60%)

If this fails to happen – I’m forced to take some drastic action next week – which I’ll discuss then…

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Posted By SquidooFreak on January 13, 2010

It has been payday at Squidoo again – and the co-op money for November 2009 has been distributed. Just to remind everyone what the co-op money is – it’s 50% of the money Squidoo makes through advertising on everyones lenses for that month – shared between all lensmasters. Of cause, those who build better lenses (measured by Squidoo’s Lens Rank) gets a bigger cut, and no payments are made to lenses with a Lens Rank above 100,000 (less is better).

This month my co-op portion has gone up quite considerably, which should probably be seen in the light that I had a lot of new lenses to my name for November 2009, and I’m continuing to steadily build my portfolio. Another reason could be that people are more inclined to click through on ads in the months up to Christmas, meaning increased revenu for Squidoo.

OK – so drumroll…… – my Squidoo payment for November 2009 was: $4.45

That’s not bad if you consider that I only made $0.28 the month before, and only $0.08 the month before that! Talk about increase! I’m certainly not going to be one to complain if this continues

Only time will tell – so watch this space for next months’ payout…..

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Posted By SquidooFreak on January 11, 2010

I’m back with an update on reaching my goal as set last week. Let’s have a re-cap:

Current Status:

• Total Lenses: 20
• Lenses under lensrank 100k: 12 (60%)

Status Goal For Week 2:

• Total Lenses: 23
• Lenses under lensrank 100k: 14 (60%)

Now, this week has been abysmal for me in terms of working on Squidoo. You’ll notice that I haven’t announced any new lenses, which is because I haven’t made any! This mainly down to the weather here in the UK being extraordinarily bad at the moment, so schools have been closed due to snow, giving me extra family commitments.

I now have a steeper hill to climb, but sometimes that happens. It’s called real life. The opposite could have been the case, where I’d have made extra lenses and given myself less to do later on, or an opportunity to exceed my goal and make things easier throughout the year.

Now – my goals are still realistic to reach – so there’s no need to revise my plans. Here’s my aim for the coming week:

Current Status:

• Total Lenses: 20
• Lenses under lensrank 100k: 12 (60%)

Status Goal For Week 3:

• Total Lenses: 24
• Lenses under lensrank 100k: 14 (60%)

I’ll be back with the next update in a weeks time.

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