The Squidoo Step by Step Guidebook is a free download and all royalties from the lens telling you about the guidebook have always been set to donate 100% to charity. However, following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the decision has been taken to donate to Hope for Haiti.
Although the first Squidoo royalty payments will not be made until March, a donor module has been added to the lens and it is our hope that people who found the Guidebook useful will make a donation. The Charity module will also ensure that Hope for Haiti will start receiving some donations immediately.
Not only does the The Squidoo Step by Step Guidebook give you tips abvout how to publish and promote your lenses, there is also a link to a new networking group called Professional Squids, which is free to join and will support you as you develop your online presence.
Hope to see you there!
Tags: earthquake in Haiti, Hope for Haiti, Squidoo, Squidoo step by step, Squidoo step by step guidebook
…so I thought as I made my first sale today, the least I could do was start promoting my Zazzle store on Squidoo!
It’s been a very busy few weeks, what with co-authoring the Squidoo Step by Step Guidebook, but I am so pleased that I also managed to set up AJ and Family on Zazzle.
In fact I was sooo busy, that I forgot that setting up the store was one of my 10 things I want to do in the next five years. It’s great when you achieve an objective, isn’t it?
But not only is the objective achieved, but I am so pleased that the store will feature artwork, photography and cartoons by all four of my children. A real family enterprise!
However, it was not until this morning when I got an email telling me about the sale, that I thought I had better make a lens: AJ and Family on Zazzle.
Tags: 10 things I want to do, AJ and family, Squidoo, Squidoo lens, Squidoo step by step guidebook, Zazzle, Zazzle store
Over the past few months it has been my pleasure to have been involved in a project to pool knowledge in order to produce a step by step Squidoo guide that takes Squidoo Lensmasters through the process of publishing and promoting a Squidoo lens.
Full of Squidoo tips, The Squidoo Step by Step Guidebook has been published as the result of a collaboration between 10 well known (and I think respected) Lensmasters. This completely FREE Squidoo Guide takes you through the process of researching keywords, to selection of the URL, to how to promote your lens both in the short and long term.
A lot of effort has been put in to make the process as simple to understand as possible. There’s checklists and links to sites where you can promote your lenses.
To get two or three people to agree on a project and work in harmony together is difficult enough but I am proud to say that the 10 people who worked on this project are still speaking to each other and have each learned so much from each other as a result!
But the group is not stopping there. Not only do we have a FREE download, with nothing needed from you (no opt ins, nothing), we also have a very special invitation for you. So head on over to the lens: Squidoo Step by Step to find out more and grab yourself an early Christmas Gift.
Happy Christmas, with love from “Tenfinity”!
Tags: Lensmasters, Squidoo, Squidoo lens, Squidoo step by step, Squidoo step by step guide, Squidoo step by step guidebook, Squidoo tips
Boy oh boy – what an honour! My Squidoo lens Christmas at AJ’s has been nominated for a Giant Squid Award in the About Me category.
I loved making this lens as it includes contributions and memories from some of my closest family members. It is part of my family history, a legacy that will last as long as Squidoo does!
I also have another nomination: Environmentally Friendly Halloween Lights, which was nominated in the Best Holiday lens category and I blog about my thoughts on that in my other blog: Going Green Ideas.
But if I could nominate just one lens out of all those featured to win an award it would actually be Homeless in America, which has been nominated in the Best Charity Lens category. I think this has to be one of the most evocative and powerful lenses that have ever been published on Squidoo. But it also saddens me to think that this lens was ever necessary.
Tags: about me, Christmas, Environmentally Friendly Halloween Lights, Giant Squid award, Going Green Ideas, Halloween, Squidoo
Over the last few weeks I have been considering where my time is best spent as I work towards trying to build some sort of on-line presence and hopefully increase my on-line income. I am no nearer getting well enough to get a job due to the effects of Otosclerosis and so on-line is where my efforts have to be focussed.
I must admit that currently it is a struggle to hang on to the belief that Squidoo, blogging, article writing and Zazzling can combine to help get us out of the financial pit we are in.
I want to write. I want to create. But the pressure to somehow find a way to earn, (eventhough I am unwell) to help my husband support us financially is taking away the enjoyment. I am also finding it really hard to get into the swing of the Pantomime I am rehearsing. I need to give myself a kick kick up the backside as it is “curtain up” in just a few weeks time.
More recently various upsetting events have knocked me for six. At the beginning of November my son and his partner lost the baby they were expecting. Then today, I have heard that the 5 year old son of some very close family friends has cancer.
My objectivity is definitely suffering, as is my normally positive outlook. I find myself irritated by a lot of things relating to Squidoo so I have spent a lot of my time recently trying to fathom out Zazzle and setting up our store, which has been frustrating and fun at the same time. It has taken me a lot longer than I thought it would and as a result, I have probably left it too late to be able to capitalise on the Christmas shopping season but at least I should be set up for Valentine’s Day!
The new Zazzle store is very much “under construction” but you can find it at AJ and Family.
Tags: otosclerosis, pantomime, Squidoo, Valentines Day, Zazzle
I have realised that my URL for my Green blog was all wrong, so I have set up a new blog here: Going Green Ideas.
I have exported the blogs from here to the new one and I am not quite sure what I will do with this one – well not yet anyway, so watch this space!
All this blogging about going green on Squidoo and finally I realised that I have enough “green” lenses for a Lensography and Going Green Ideas was the result.
Going Green Ideas will be a place where I can organise my eco-friendly lenses. I have not made many Lensographies but they will become increasingly important in helping me manage my lenses as the number increases – 63 to date.
I often wonder how Lensmasters with over 100 lenses keep track!
Tags: eco-friendly, Going Green Ideas, green lenses, Lensmasters, Lensographies, Lensography
Pink Ribbon for Breast Cancer Awareness
Not to mention having to face her own mortality head on and cope with the worries and fears of her parents, partner and children.
I am also sure that she would desperately like to find an answer to the question:
Why me? What caused my cancer?
In big red letters, which certainly made me sit up and take notice, the email said:
No matter how many times you get this E-mail, Please send it on!!!! Bottled water in your car is very dangerous!
I immediately thought of the bottles of water that are always in my car. The ones that my daughters and I drink from all the time. But did I panic? No. Because I am always cautious when I get emails like this.
I carefully read the email through. Oh gosh! Sheryl Crow was on the Ellen Show and said that bottled water is what caused her breast cancer? And it must be true because her Oncologist said so? Dioxins in plastic bottles cause cancer?
Now wait a minute! I am no science specialist (I leave that to my Hubby) but I do know that no Oncologist can categorically pin down the specific cause of cancer in an individual. Even if they have suspicions they are not going to make such definite statements.
So I did what I often do when I get an email like this. Tootle off to Google and do a search. This search was:
Sheryl Crow plastic bottle dioxin hoax
BINGO!
My fav hoax slayer site came up with the goods: Plastics Cancer Link Email – Freezing Plastic Bottles – Plastics In the Microwave or Car
Various versions of this e-mail are examined and reassuringly Hoax-Slayer says:
An earlier variant of this hoax referred only to the freezing of plastic water bottles. This later version has added on spurious information about using plastics in microwave ovens as well. Both versions contain false and misleading information.
The site then goes on to debunk the hoax, point by point, with links to scientific references to back it up.
Sorted! No need to worry then. Phew!
But I remained very angry. These emails are horrible. They are preying on millions of vulnerable people who either have or who have had cancer. People who are often raw with worry or grief. People who care enough about their friends and family to want to keep them safe from harm.
These emails are sick!
And it is particularly sick during Breast Cancer Awareness month, when for many of us our thoughts are about people we know or have lost through cancer. My hubby lost his Mother, my ex lost his Mother too – both to cancer. I know four women who have been treated or who are currently being treated for cancer.
Lensmaster Lakeerieartists has recently published a lens: Pink October : The New Color of Fall .
There’s links to companies that are donating to various campaigns and why not Donate a Dollar yourself? Michael’s Way is a charity that helps the families of children with cancer to cope with the extraordinary non-medical expenses that come about as a direct result of the child’s illness.
If you want to do something positive and genuinely useful for Breast Cancer awareness then circulate Paula’s lens, NOT that email.
Tags: breast cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness, eco-hoax, Pink October
AJ