Showing posts with label make money online. Show all posts
Showing posts with label make money online. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Squidoo Modules


WOW! I hope you took the time to check out the videos Jackie posted today... they are really helpful and eye-opening!

Today I'm going to familiarize you with some of the many 'modules' that are available over at Squidoo so you understand just what an easy 'plug and play' approach to website building is provided over there.

When you go to the 'module picker' from your lens by clicking on 'Add Module' when you're in editing mode, the first thing you will see is what is called the Starter Package:

  • Amazon
  • Duel
  • Flickr Photos
  • Google Blog Search
  • Guestbook
  • Link List
  • Poll Module
  • Text / Write module
  • Yelp
  • YouTube vids

Next to each of these module titles is the word ADD. When you hover over this word you will see a popup with a brief description of the module. Sometimes these descriptions are helpful in that they give you an idea of what you can do with the module... like the following info for Amazon:

Amazon

The trusty Amazon module you know and love. Feature your favorite stuff (books, CDs, DVDs, geekware...) and comment on it. (Beware, you could earn money!) If you want people to vote on your list, or submit their own items, or share your list... try the new Amazon Plexo module instead.


And sometimes they are simply tantalizing and don't really give you any more clarity about what it does so you find yourself clicking on it simply to explore. The great news is that you can easily delete any module if you decide it's not a particularly helpful tool for the kind of lens you're building.

Don't feel like you have to use every module offered in the Starter Package. Just follow your wisdom and inspiration!

In addition to finding modules sorted under various tabs you can also search for modules alphabetically. For instance... when you click the Search (A-Z) tab and then select the letter 'W' you will see the following list:

As you can see, it's not always easy to tell what function is served simply by reading their names. I mean, would you guess that the 'Wonkette' module description says, "Politics for people with dirty minds"... whatever that means! LOL

As our blog is about marketing online, I presume you are interested in monetizing your lens. Some modules lend themselves more easily toward that than others and it's valuable to be creative and think outside the box. I have received the most comments about various lenses about fun widgets that were found on my lens that didn't directly earn me any money but gave my lens some word-of-mouth that increased the likelihood that someone interested in purchasing would land on my lens!

And since we're talking about money here I'll share with you how Squidoo divvy's up the dough.

Ah, money.

One of the great features of Squidoo is the ability to make money for yourself or charity by selling items through one of our monetized modules. How does this work?

  1. You add a money making module to your lens. Some examples include Amazon, eBay, and CafePress.
  2. Someone buys an item
  3. When the transaction clears though the website where the purchase was made, you get a commission
  4. You decide if you want cash (which is paid out monthly through PayPal) or for the commission to go to charity. You also decide your minimum payout in your Dashboard preferences.
  5. Commissions for month one are paid in month three. So anything you make in January will be paid in March.
The total commission made from each sale is split up. Five percent off the top goes to our charity. Yay! The remainder is split 50-50. Squidoo gets 50% to run the site, and you get 50% to play with.

Several advanced users also become affiliates for websites and products not yet offered through one of our money making modules. This allows them to offer additional products that match their niche topics.

Hope you're inspired to go explore and take advantage of this brilliant no-cost playground for attracting people to you!

I appreciate you,

--Mary K

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Sunday, November 4, 2007

Bum Marketing 30 Day Experiment

Hello!! Welcome to the 30 day marketing experiment. We are Mary K, Kat and Jackie Lee, three friends and co creators who have been working online for various amounts of time and having various amounts of monetary success. We will each introduce ourselves here shortly.

We were talking and wondering what gets in the way of success online? The three of us have loads and loads of information, that can't be the problem. Well. . . maybe it is part of the problem. We have too much information.

Jackie is an information junky. She gets ebook after ebook, reading and reading, learning new things and thinking, "OH this might be just the thing I need to be successful." Just when she starts getting involved in that she learns something new and jumps ship because this might be just the thing.

She knows so much but doesn't keep at any one thing long enough to see if it really IS THE THING!!

Mary K takes an eclectic approach to everything! Vulnerable to analysis paralysis in her efforts to discern the best method, tool, style or approach she's been known to get sweaty palms at the mere idea of a 'timed' event. Will the Bum Marketing 30 Day Experiment be just edgy enough to move her toward the goal, proving that virtually anyone can earn $1000 in 30 Days, or will she cave and fall off that edge?!?

Kat is an idea machine who dives into things with out a second thought - which is wonderful and in the long run will serve as abundance machines - however, this often leaves her scrambling for much needed capital to create the next part of her masterpiece. Slowing down long enough to focus on some marketing that will produce capital now might just be what the doctor ordered.

Knowing, intellectually, that we should be experiencing way more success we decided to try an experiment.

We decided to pick ONE THING and do it for 30 days and see what happens.

We chose to focus on Bum Marketing for this challenge because


  • It seems really doable, whether you are a pro or it's your first day online

  • There are enough variations we could each do something a little different

  • There is no financial investment necessary to get started and to follow this method
If you aren't familiar with the "Bum Marketing Method" it involves writing articles to market affiliate products.

The three of us will each be taking a little different tack to the method, and we'll see what works and what doesn't. For the first day of the challenge we will list what our daily action steps will be, and as we go on we'll be accountable to each other, and to you, to make sure we are following our plan.

You READY? I know we are. Let's get started on this

Bum Marketing Challenge for One thousand in dollars in 30 Days!!!

The 30 Karat Team
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