All About Squidoo

Thanking Squidster an old time squidangel who finally agreed to be interviewed. Why are you a squidoo lensmaster? Originally I was attracted to the ease with which anyone can quickly assemble a web page. Okay, the idea of shared revenue was a strong motivator as well. I heard about it in one of the IM forums and thought I’ll give it a try. My very first payday with only a handful of lenses yielded over $11 which I thought was very promising. Unfortunately, the financial trend did not quite...Read Full Story

Joan4 is one of those lensmasters that just can’t make you stop smiling. It’s not for nothing that a lens has already been made in her honor She’s a giant squid top 100 member, a rocket mom and one of the new squidangels. Generous as she is, she thanks an amazing amount of lensmasters at the bottom… And of course she can’t limit herself to just answering my questions. She started out her e-mail to me with: What fun!! I am flattered! I hope I have answered these questions appropriately. Feel...Read Full Story

While kiwisoutback’s lensmasters handle suggests a New Zealand origin, he tells me one of his niches is road trips in the USA. Looking for answers to this conundrum, I checked out his lensography and found out he’s married to one of our greenest lensmasters: TheGreenerMe [edit]Kiwisouthback has since explained on his lensography that he chose the kiwi years ago as a handle on ebay, just because it was a unique animal. No regional associations whatsoever. Of course it probably made a...Read Full Story

Janet21 is what most of us want to be: a self sufficient online entrepreneur. Surprisingly she’s only made 92 lenses to date, which goes to show that online income really is about quality more than quantity. Added to that of course her other online ventures. Why are you a squidoo lensmaster? In 2006, I made the decision to try to earn an income online. I am a stay at home mom and had no desire to work outside the home even once my youngest started Kindergarten in 2010. I discovered Squidoo...Read Full Story

Veronica shares my passion for spirituality and paranormal phenomena, but also makes lenses about politics, where she lives and so on. As a giant squid she was already a credit to squidoo, but now she’s a squidangel too. Here’s her interview. Why are you a squidoo lensmaster? Because once I started at Squidoo, I couldn’t stop. Besides that, it is one of the most helpful, friendly group of people I’ve ever encountered online. What is your favorite lens? My favorite lens of mine (or one of...Read Full Story

Oh wow - this is an emotional interview for me. I’m tearing up, though that might be because of the continuing sinus problems I’m having. For one thing - inkserotica is so honest about her emotions, it’s touching (and she’s right: it makes compelling reading). For another - she thanks me at the end… and I started out disliking her (partly because the whole adult lenses thing put me off). I’m thanking her here because she’s amply proved her value as a squidoo community worker by the blog she...Read Full Story

It’s been a while since I interviewed anybody on this blog. Mysticmama forced my hand though, by setting up two spiritual blogging / networking sites in the past month. Bambi has been supportive and generous ever since her appearance on squidoo only a little over a year ago (Jan. 8th 2009). She’s in the Giant Squid 100 club, she donates her royalties to Humane Society of the United States and is generally a great addition to the community. But she’s also been appointed Squidoo Support Sites...Read Full Story

It seems like some of the Monkeybrain lenses here have their mind made up from the start. I feel a more objective and less opinionated approach may be more preferable so that people can get a better understanding of issues. On the other hand maybe a strong opinion gets more results! This lens will examine which types of lenses are more successful, but before you read the results, what do you think? Do you prefer an opionated Monkeybrain that lets their thoughts be known or do you think the...Read Full Story

Lately Squidoo has been implementing a lot of new changes that are shaking things up for lensmasters all over, combined with wild google rank fluctuations and random lensrank crashes it's getting hard to tell - is Squidoo out to get us? This is a humorous and sarcastic lens that looks at this very important question to expose the raw truth to all lensmasters and looks at how we can defend ourselves from these constant Squidoo attacks. Yes you may be surprised and shocked but please read on...Read Full Story

Are you going to hire a Squidoo lens creation service to build your lenses for you? When you hire someone to build a lens you will be able to have them transfer it to your account so that you can have full ownership of it for as long as you want. Many people do not know how to accept the transfer of a Squidoo lens and may need a little help. If you are going to have some Squidoo lenses created by someone then you will want to make sure that they know how to transfer them and that you know how...Read Full Story