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Free publicity on Squidoo
Amvona Blog 03 Aug, 2009 | by stephanieluz
Are you a photographer seeking costless ways to increase your business? There’s a social media site out there called Squidoo that wants to give you a knee up into the spotlight.
Squidoo offers people—or in your case, photographers—the opportunity to create their own personal “lens.” Of course, creating a lens doesn’t mean that you’ll be customizing an actual piece of glass. “’Lenses’ are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic or interest—and snap it all into focus,” according to the site’s “Getting Started With Squidoo” lens.
“Seshu’s Tiffinbox: Feast your eyes” outlines the steps to creating a successful photography lens on Squidoo. Of course, if you want to just go on and see for yourself, check out one of their 900,000 published lenses. Maybe you’ll want to start one of your own.
Some things I found interesting:
— Squidoo’s fun facts were published on February 1st, and it was stated that there were already 900,000 “hand built” lenses. That’s a whole lot of camera parts for a site that was founded in 2005.
— “2.5 We call our pages “lenses” because each is one person’s focus on something that she’s interested in, something that matters to her.”
…Who’s her and should I know her?
— Squidoo was ranked one of the 300 most popular sites in the US.
— In 2008, Squidoo grew a whopping 91 percent.
— They generate hundreds and thousands of dollars in annual royalties to charities and to users.
— There’s a Squidoo cookbook.
— Lensmasters earn more than $1,000 a year from Squidoo. Some make $10,000. Others are happy with $40 or $4.
— Lensmasters are people that own lenses on Squidoo… and are apparently masters at it.
