Archive for July, 2007

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ANNOUNCING: BuildMyLens .com

Ok, so I have been asked about 6 million times by people if I can make them a lens. Most offered money (and some didn’t…)!
I finally wised up and joined forces with ex-ghostwriter-to-the-gurus now internet-marketing-extraordinaire Tiffany Dow (author of the first ever Squidoo ebook) and together we have launched www.BuildMyLens.com.
Tiffany, trained as a journalist and [...]

28Jul2007 | MrLewisSmile | 3 comments | Continued
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How to use Lensroll .com

I’ve had a few questions sent to me after the last post about Lensroll.com about some basic things about navigating the site, so I thought I’d post a few things I noticed about Lensroll.com during beta testing.
There are the basic things, like ‘Submit a New Story’ is how you add a lens once you’re logged [...]

27Jul2007 | MrLewisSmile | 10 comments | Continued
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ANNOUNCING: Lensroll .com

Lensmaster Glen has launched Lensroll.com
Go there now, create your account, and promote your lenses for free.
It is a site like Digg, but dedicated to your Squidoo lenses.
It looks fantastic,  it works brilliantly, and it is growing nicely.
So why should you use it? 

Because it has a pagerank of 3 already. Which means google has assigned a [...]

25Jul2007 | MrLewisSmile | 8 comments | Continued
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Boosting Your Referral $$$

As a lensmaster you receive an extra $5 every time someone signs up to become a Squidoo Lensmaster because of you and earns their first $15. Your referral link looks like this: www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/referral/MrLewisSmile (where MrLewisSmile is my username)
So how can you utilize this cool Squid $$$ offering to maximize your earnings?
Here are some ideas:

Cross your [...]

11Jul2007 | MrLewisSmile | 7 comments | Continued
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How (and Why!) to Add a Poll to Your Lens

This one is super easy.
Adding a poll to your lens.
But why would you WANT to add a poll to your lens?
For these reasons:

To find answers to questions you have about your topic (What’s your favourite color?)
To add INTERACTIVITY! To get your visitors to buy something (the ultimate interaction with your lens), you should first try [...]

7Jul2007 | MrLewisSmile | 6 comments | Continued
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Nearly 20 Rubbish Lenses? What does ‘unimproved’ mean?

If you have nearly 20 rubbish lenses, be worried.
Well, I say ‘rubbish’. What I really mean is an ‘unimproved’ lens.
An unimproved lens is one of those lenses you have with less than 4 modules. Or that lens you haven’t published yet. Or both.
If you have 20 unimproved lenses, you can’t register any more lenses. Until [...]

4Jul2007 | MrLewisSmile | 5 comments | Continued
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UnMaxing your Lens (to make the layout CLEANER!)

A real-life lens, by it’s very nature, helps focus things. Like the lenses in a microscope, or your glasses, or telescope. A Squidoo lens is no different. Your lens is to focus in on things.
Bearing that in mind, you might want to consider unmaxing your lens.
What does unmaxing mean? It means unticking [...]

2Jul2007 | MrLewisSmile | 7 comments | Continued
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Join StumbleUpon and submit your lens

StumbleUpon is a website with a difference. It is a Social Bookmarking site like most others, but has some very cool features that the others are lacking.
StumbleUpon is a MASSIVE catalogue of the best websites online, all organized in over 500 categories. The users add cool sites to the rotation database.
To submit your lens you [...]

2Jul2007 | MrLewisSmile | 13 comments | Continued