Squidoo Guide by Lisa (not me by another Lisa....lol)

 Squidoo shortcut to Money

Is this another Squidoo How to guide, claiming to let you know the secrets to making it big online? No this is written by an active successful lensmaster working on her lenses here and now, to me that's pretty selfless to write about how she does it.
I admire anyone who can write down their formula, sometimes with me I go off on a tangent get lost see something else and think oh I like that, I do have an attention span of a goldfish

However Lisa's book caught my attention, and I read it all!

Word for Word.

Getting attention from Google is something we all strive for, every page published we want our pages to scream at Google Pick me Pick me.
How Lisa describes how she gets googles attention is so easy, yet we all want to over complicate it
When she stated by saying the way to make money is all in the sales instantly I knew this lady knew what she was talking about, many strive for those tier payments on Squidoo, but that will not make us good money,
yes we can write wonderfully creative, informative pages, but to be honest even mine that have won the spotlight Lens of The Day, make zero, nothing NIL,not a cent, in return for those hours it took me to craft that Page.

Let me make a fun to the point product page and boom! SALES=$$$$$ yes that lens will probably never win any awards, but It makes me lots of money, month after month, as you will find out in one of the chapters of Lisa's' book ".....You make LONG money" at Squidoo!


After 3 years, well 1 and a half of taking it seriously, I can now understand this statement. But I went the long way around it, what Lisa's book is giving you is one of those light bulb moments, I say one, actually throughout it many light bulb moments) In fact when Lisa breaks down time/effort to return....WOW even I was impressed by her no nonsense method.

I laughed as I learned a top tip, in this book that had just never occurred to me. 
When I started I actually started with the same product Lisa started online with, however it is rather outdated, so I don't really feel it worth its money any more, and wanted something current to suggest to people who are interested in making good product lenses on Squidoo.

After reading this I know what Lisa has written is how its done, no messing around, with tools or complicated formulas to success, so easy and simple and anyone really can do it.

 I have heard countless people cry "squidoo does not work" Well there is a host of very successful lensmasters just waiting to tell you differently.  If you "work" it will "work for you.
Only If you listen to these people who are making money proven track records.

Squidoo shortcut to money is set out, gives great tips, and action points, I like the style easy to implement.

Honestly I love this, even I as a seasoned lensmaster or as someone said recently "old timer" I was reminded actually how simple making money with Squidoo really is.
For the price I think your getting a great bargain, a good read, good action points, and reminders of how to get googles attention straight away to your lens, and a few golden nuggets thrown in too.
 Actually to get my head around making product "sales" pages (which make us money no doubt about it!)
I just love creating those pages that are soley product based and cashing in on hot topics.
How to creat a Great Sales Page that will make you money

Grab a copy of Lisa's' Squidoo Shortcut to making Money Click Here!

A fantastic reminder to new and old that actually Squidoo is easy, making money on Squidoo can be easy too, and you can indeed make a very good passive income online as I discussed in my previous post.

Who is really in charge of Your online business

Not often I go against the grain, however I am this time....

It seems we live in a world where, we (the majority) are sheep, yes you heard me, sheep.
Flocks and flocks of sheep. Darting about looking for who or what to follow next.....
We follow, we are happy to follow in fact it is easier to follow, who we think we should follow, and who others also follow.
We see their success and we want it too, so....we follow them.

Then someone else comes along and oh-oh,no you cant do that and this is why, and their case presented is very convincing.
We all run around in a bit of a state, and then someone else who has that emulated position within the group of sheep, steps out with their voice of reason within the madness and confusion, and proceeds to tell us what we have been doing is wrong! Then proceeds to tell us what to do now.  Which we find out later down the line was a load of rubbish too. 
(top Tip about working online - learn now that a shortcut now is a LOT of work later on!)

anyway they state their  point plain and clear and yes we all start following them, until ....
all  change...and it happens all over again....?

I write this recently as I have ran around like a headless chicken recently, changing things that HQ had changed so I had to combat those changes with my changes, with what the people I followed told me I had to change to help my business

Are you confused yet? my head is hurting too....

2 things happened recently for me to realise and ask myself who is really in charge?

I was devastated recently to find out some of the people I look up to follow, listen to what they have to say shared they could not break earning the $500/$600 dollars a month mark.....What? I thought they were earning $1,000's.

I re-read this statement, and thought ? I am listening to you, I had by-passed that milestone long ago.

I have worshipped you and listened to what you had to say, you have written explicitly on how to make money online? you share tutorials with others,  and if you said it It must be good or in recent cases certain things were bad for my business then I would move mountains to get it implemented....
I removed myself from them, stopped following their email alerts, and I have just went on my merry way.
guess what earnings are up.  my niche websites are coming into their own, Google loves them, I have spread my little wings, and
guess what, I still see the same posts, the same bickering....anyway you get what I mean.

My Sales are fantastic and projects out with my normal are on the move. In fact the only person I have been reading is actually not a sole person but google webmaster tools, they keep me updated and let me know of any changes, I should be considering google is my friend and sends me lovely organic traffic, I am going to listen to him/her.

2. without going too into detail, an announcement that this is disastrous for us and we should do this now to help us and now all the ones who did do it are/could/will most likely need to un do the work.

these people seem to thrive on controversy, people see then as authoritative figures? sorry I don't, I see them as a pain in my growing business ass.

so

No more listening or taking advice from others, as actually you should be following your own dreams, not someone elses.

How do I know who really is earning money online? How do I know that those people who claim they are making money really are? And then how do I know I should be listening to them?
I say don't, be your own person, be creative, don't copy (for goodness sake do not copy, you will be found out)
one of the places I write at online is Squidoo, and they drummed it into me, Unique Useful, updated content, It is what will always win and get you to the top.

And if you work in partnership with any online writing platform, for goodness sake accept what they say is it.... they own it, they are in charge and if you do not like it. tough, their rules. You signed up to them.

 If you do not like it any more leave, no ones asking you to stay.

And in the mean time keep your thoughts and negativity to yourself as it is getting annoying.

Go and whine somewhere else, as actually you are stopping me and others from achieving my success
I like it, I like the changes that make it fresh.
I continue to earn and keep earning good money with the changes, and it gets more every month, why should I be complaining?
And if working in partnership with them is making me money then I should be listening to them, and only them!

I have decided from this experience I will become a stand alone, thinker, not a sheep and a follower.

Serenity Prayer: available to Buy

I think the Serenity Prayer Wall Quote sums it up!and I shall purchase for my office wall. God grant me the serenity to accept things I can not change, the courage to change things i can, and the wisdom to know the difference wall art wall sayings

I feel I need a little Disclaimer : everyone is allowed their own views and opinions, I am all for freedom of speech. however what I am saying is, I will listen to those opinions I may even act on these opinions, BUT before I do anything I shall carry out my own research and make my own decision, not just follow the pack.
I want to be the car steaming ahead whilst the sheep run in circles

Lisa

Passive Income? Is it possible to earn a passive income online

Yes you Can Earn a Passive Income Working Online - and I will prove it.
What is passive income and why do we strive to achieve it?

Passive income is an income received on a regular basis, with little effort required to maintain it.

I wanted to write something about a recent event in my life that made me realise, all the work I have been doing online has indeed lead to me earning a passive income online.
Meaning I could actually take some time off and still earn online without worrying.

When I first started out working online it seemed the amount of effort I was having to put in > to how much I was earning was way below national minimum wage? You know what I mean, that first payday, when you eventually reach the payout threshold, and see not even dollars but....cents.... and you are just about ready to give up working online and go back to the regular job of 70 hours weeks.

 Looking at this graph of my earnings I could have easily given up in March, but I did not I just kept going, I knew it would work, I believed in myself. Can you see the graph just keeps rising? (date shows Oct11, but actually it is until January payout.)

This Christmas I had a great Christmas I had worked hard to make sure all my web pages were updated, good products, great content, I had also at this point started to replace affiliate links with my own affiliate links (this is a huge job, but worth it ...as you will find out) then a disaster happened in my family.

I basically spent nearly 3 months in an intensive Care unit, willing my big brother on. Nothing was further from my mind than my online work. Sadly my brother passed away, and I was left devastated. I took a lot of time off.
now before this happened I would spend nearly every waking moment checking, updating, republishing, checking again and again..... I thought that was what was making me money, during this off period of time, I did not update, I did not check nothing, my little account just ticked over itself.

But one day an envelope arrived in the post, it was from Amazon.com it included a cheque.....holy moley Christmas had been great! I rushed online to check the stats and could not believe my eyes, earnings from Squidoo had basically still risen! Even although I had changed 50 % of links on page to my own affiliate account to amazon,
**Someone just emailed me to ask a Question: I'm just starting on Squidoo should I just use my own affiliate links
In all honesty NO,  to start with I would not recommend you use ALL your own affiliate links? why not?
 Squidoo rewards you on lensrank and within their system there is an extra boost for sales via them, yes you share the revenue with Squidoo however whilst you are building your online profile, your knowledge about working online,
Amazon has different % to reach and it is difficult to maximise that % unless you have built good traffic to your pages.
The law of averages kicks in the more traffic clicks through to amazon the higher your sales....
So in the beginning use the modules like Amazon Spotlight,(my favourite and googles too!)  working with Squidoo, when you are able to see what is selling, and you have a solid lens with good organic "google" traffic, what links are being clicked on then start to replace these with your own affiliate links.

This will mean you will probably find your lens will drop in lensrank BUT your earnings will RISE in Amazon commissions. 
This is where you are heading, where you are not dependant on lensrank or any sites internal payment structure, will these sites be around forever?  If they disappeared tomorrow how would you still earn money? have you created blog posts or websites to compliment your pages

By the way, I am no good with maths, I just seem to work get paid and don't work things out, My outrageous habit of saying ooohhh....look at my earnings on paypal, and not really looking at to where it has come from!

But my husband loves figures, and he worked out that even in the 3 month period of doing very little I still had an average increase of 20% a month  (and this is the man who used to question what I was doing? wasting my time online.... who has now given up his full time job to allow me to work online full time and more! He is now a proud house husband, and does the Maths part for me...lol...) 


Wait - I did not nothing for 3 months yet still had increase, yes it was Christmas time, which he tried to include for and put into context. (By giving the average increase. )

So yes you can earn a residual/passive income from working online. But I do indeed work hard but it did indeed pay off when I most needed it.


I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.....Margaret Thatcher (Britain's first Woman Prime Minister)

I lost not only my brother, but indeed my biggest supporter of my dreams, no matter how crazy my little ideas for webpages, he was there telling me how fantastic they were, thanks Gav x