How I Found Squidoo

Squidoo has become a place where tons of people, myself included, have found success on the Internet. Before I found Squidoo, I was making literally pennies online. Back then I knew nothing about making money on the Internet, and would just slap together a site or something and put Google Adsense ads on it and just wait for the cash to start rolling in. Well, to tell the truth, that never happened. At the time I had almost no idea about promotion, getting traffic, or anything like that.

When I found Squidoo, however, this all changed. While browsing on the various forums I used to hang out all the time, I kept seeing references to something called “Squidoo.” I wanted to learn more about this “Squidoo” and sought out to find out all I could about it. I’m a person who likes to use IRC and chat, and so I searched for any Squidoo chat rooms.

I found Captain Squid’s Squidoo Chat, and from that moment on I began my journey to success with Squidoo. I swear, all of my success is attributed to this chat and Captain Squid’s blog. I have learned more in the past six months with these than I ever learned in the year or two I drifted along reading other blogs and forums. And the friendships I’ve made there have become literally priceless. I couldn’t have possibly reached where I am now without them.

Fast forward to today and here I am with 150 lenses, a Giant Squid, ten thousand times smarter, and actually making good progress with Squidoo. I went from making maybe a dollar or two a month, if I was even lucky, to over $300 a month. All in the small amount of time I’ve spent with Captain Squid and the gang, reading the SquidBlog, and by trying out new things on my own using the advice I’ve received. That has been a large part of my success–getting good advice and actually applying the advice I’ve received.

So, thanks to Captain Squid and the gang for providing information and advice that has been invaluable to my success. I couldn’t have made it without you.

April Squidoo Earnings

Today was payday for April’s Squidoo royalties and Google Adsense earnings. I didn’t earn as much as I would have liked, but since then I’ve made huge improvements to my lenses and I feel that next month’s payment will be much better.

But anyways, to me, direct Squidoo payments are just a bonus–the majority of money that I make is with affiliate programs such as LinkShare and Pepperjam. I’ve also been using Ebay Partner Network for some time, and have had good experiences with it.

With all earnings combined, I earned around $260 in April with Squidoo. Not bad. May looks like it was even better, too, at least $320. This may not seem like much to a lot of people, but to me it’s pretty good progress, especially since I really only started building lenses seriously a few months ago. My goal for the end of the summer, before I start school again, is $1,000 per month. I know I can reach it if I keep going onward. There are lensmasters such as Captain Squid who earn over $2,000 per month with Squidoo, so I think $1,000 per month is pretty modest and attainable.

Wish me luck.

Hello to the World

Greetings. My name is Zach, and I’m a Squidoo geek, fanatic, maniac…whatever you wanna call it. I’ve been basically won over with Squidoo and have been with it for about seven months, and during that time I’ve made nearly 150 lenses, become a Giant Squid, and have begun earning some decent money with Squidoo. Decent, at least to a student like myself. But it’s a nice side income and provides me with some extra spending (or saving) money each month.

My goal for this blog is to just talk about Squidoo, and hopefully I’ll be able to come up with some witty Squidoo tips and such to share with the world. We’ll see.