to having my first $50 sales day today. Came up $2 short. But wow! I’m already on target to make $500 for the month, including estimated adsense sharing at Squidoo, which just blows my mind.
It took me forever to see any kind of sales at Squidoo. Forever. What helped me turn the corner? A little luck, good instincts, paying attention to my stats and learning keyword research techniques. The luck comes in with my political lenses, which are leading the pack. Follow this with new keyword research, which gave me a great Halloween niche. Good instincts brought me the Kung Fu Panda wave, while closely following what people search for brought in the cycling jerseys series that has been a steady producer.
Now if I could just keep Google from dropping lenses right when they should be hitting their peak!! My election party and Tinkerbell costumes lenses are MIA right as they should be getting their best (last-minute) traffice. Sigh.
October 21st, 2008 at 6:06 am
Well done Susan. It is good to see sheer effort and good instincts paying off. It is also good to see that you are being rewarded for sticking with Squidoo.
I have been on Squidoo for 3 months now but realistically I do not think I will see any reasonable increase in returns for at least another 3 months and it will be a year before I can expect to be making real headway.
If everyone thought like this then we may not see so many “sucky” lenses - see Mimi’s and Katinka’s blogs.
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I think it took me about six months before I finally sold anything and got a payday. But the ball just started rolling about then, in part because I was working to make Giant Squid, then the Squid 100 club. Only by making a lot of lenses was I able to get enough of a mix to start making some decent money. The date when I hit an average of $1 per lens just comes sooner every month now. Loving it!