The Squidoo 60 Day Challenge: Money to Pay Off Debt

Recently, I've become obsessed with paying off my auto loan. Why? It will lower my insurance premiums, free up over $200.00 a month and allow me to save for something better. This time I want to pay cash. My Squidoo earnings have been increasing and after doing some research, I found many people earning a nice income from their Squidoo lenses. Not only that, I found The 60 Day Squidoo Challenge: Make a Supplemental Income On Squidoo In 60 Days Or Less by icjackson (70 lenses).

Want to join me on this 60 Day Squidoo Challenge?
Of course you do. What could you do with an extra $100.00 or more from Squidoo? I'm sure many of you would love to snowball some credit card payments. Others may want to save, invest or shop for Christmas gifts without worry. (Remember, money you earn now will be paid in two months.) Ok, so you want to join Squidoo, but don't know what to expect. For those of you that need a little (or a lot of help) with Squidoo, I will answer some important questions you may have.

How can I earn more money with my Squidoo lenses?
The answer is make more quality lenses to increase your earnings. Yes,there are lenses that earn more money than others. Why? To answer that, you need to understand how you earn money on Squidoo.

How does anyone earn money on Squidoo?
There are two ways Squidoo lensmasters earn money.
1. Squidoo lensmasters can earn money from the adsense pool.
That money is divided among lensmasters by the rank of their lenses. The top 2000 lenses earn between $8.00 and $12.00 each. The next two tiers earns even less. There is a lens created by Loyalis (498 lenses) that examines the Squidconomy - The Economics of Squidoo. Visit the lens to see a more clear picture.
2. Squidoo lensmasters can earn money from affiliate sales.
A Squidoo lensmaster can use the modules available on Squidoo to earn revenue. Of course, your profit is split with Squidoo. A lensmaster can choose to use their own affiliate links from affiliate networks or clickbank and keep the full commission. The choice is yours. If you're new to affiliate marketing, you may want to start with the Squidoo modules provided. At the same time, learn all that you can about the affiliate marketing.

So I created a Squidoo lens, what next?
You may have created the most unique, greatest lens on the earth, but you;re the only one that knows about it. You need traffic. Email it to your friends and family. What else can you do? Guess what? A Squidoo lensmaster created a lens to give you the tools you need to promote your lens. The Squidoo lensmaster jeffwend (481 lenses) created Promoting Your Lens Outside Of Squidoo

How much do these Lensmasters earn?
That depends on the topic of their lens, how many they have and how they monetize it.

The current top lens Are you a Stay at Home Mom (or Dad) Interested in Earning a Monthly Income? was made by a SAHM known as Janet21 (89 lenses). This is a screen shot of her Squidoo earnings. Visit her lens to get all the details...


PotPieGirl (112 lenses) created an ebook to help with the marketing of your Squidoo lens. On her blog, PotPieGirl has shared some information on her earnings.

Loyalis revealed he earned this: One Squidoo Lens, One month, $1,000. Most recently, the Captain Squid wrote a post revealing he earned ? $500 in one day

How much am I earning? I earned close to $70.00 in one month for (16) lenses I created. Many of them were made over a year ago. Those totals don't include earnings from affiliate networks. I realized that this was a big deal. Why? I wasn't putting much time into Squidoo, but what if I did? That got me to thinking, "What if I created more lenses?" Most of the top earners on Squidoo have 100's of lenses. What if I created 100's of lenses? Not only that, I could link my blogs to them which creates more traffic. Best of all, I added my twitter profile and have tripled my followers.

Squidoo can help you earn more money, increase your social media networks and traffic.

So, who's going to join me on the 60 Day Squidoo Challenge? Leave the link to your Squidoo lensmaster page in the comments. (Be sure to complete your Squidoo lensmaster profile!) You will miss out on some traffic. How? I'll leave that for another post....

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Here are the lastest lenses I've created:
Hypoallergenic Dogs
Designer Pet Carriers
Christian Louboutin
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Living Things:A Band of Brothers With a Politcal Message

Three Ways to Make Money With Twitter

Twitter is my favorite social networking site. I'm online most of my waking hours, so I try to keep Twitter open. As you know, I'm always testing different ways of making money online. Believe it or not, I found three different sites that are looking for Twitter users that would like to make some money. As long as there are advertising dollars, there will always be a way to make money. :)

Before I tell you about the sites that can help you make money on Twitter, you need to know one important thing. How much is your tweet worth? You have to know how much to charge advertiser's, right?

Your first stop should be What's Your Tweet Worth?

As I'm writing this post, I have 1441 followers and I'm following 1621 people. That should give you a better picture of how much you should charge.





1. How does TwittAd.com help Twitter users make money with their profiles?
Twittad is designed like a marketplace. When a blogger joins Twittad.com, you add your Twitter username and it instantly updates your followers, following and updates. You create a profile with your Twitter update topics, your websites and a picture if you so desire. You choose the price of the ad space on your Twitter profile. Once an advertiser purchases your ad sapce, you upload the code Twittad provides to your Twitter template/profile page. The advertiser pays Twittad and you earn in hourly increments. Twittad checks your profile on an hourly basis to confirm the ad is still on your profile. At the end of the agreed upon ad campaign (1 day, 7 days, 15 days, 1 Month or 3 Months), your full payment goes into an account. Once you reach the minimum $20.00 payout, the payment is processed through paypal.
Here's a screenshot of what your profile would look like:




2. How does Be a Magpie help Twitter users make money with their tweets?
Be a Magpie is a place where advertisers can send ads through your tweets. Once you join, tweets will be sent out along with your tweets. Don't worry about flooding your tweets with ads, this is a fairly new site. I've only received two ads since joining on Nov.1, 2008. The pay in British pounds. Payouts are made by paypal when the minimum amount of 50.00 British pounds is met. (Remember every British pound is worth about $1.70.) The ads can be scheduled to go out on the following ratio: 1 tweet and 1 ad, 3 tweets to 1 ad, 5to1, 10to1, 15to1, 20to1. I had two ads tweeted and earned 5.70 in British pounds.



3. How does Adjix help Twitter users make money by shortening their links?
When Twitter gives me the message that I have too many characters because it won't automatically shorten my links, I get frustrated. Adjix shortens your links for Twitter and helps you make some money. When you shorten your links through Adjix.com, a subtle ad will appear on the top of the page that opens. You'll earn from the ads as long as you were logged into your free Adjix Linker account when you created your short link. You can also use the ad free adjix, but still use the free analytics data that tells you exactly who clicked on your links.



These are just three services I've come across. I know that there are many people that refuse to use ads of any kind on any social media sites or blogs. This post is for those that wish to make a little money from their actions on the internet.

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Don't forget to visit Get Paid to Tweet on Twitter for another way you can earn money on Twitter for your Christmas shopping!