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What do most bloggers do after they create a blog?
They stop blogging.
According to several studies, 60-80% of bloggers abandon their blog within ONE month!  (found at http://www.caslon.com.au/weblogprofile1.htm).
I don’t know how old this study is, but looking around at all the skeleton blogs out there, it wouldn’t surprise me if today’s stats were still that high.
Inspirational [...]

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SquidUtils.com is a site created for Squidoo lensmasters that provides helpful utilities and tools. Being relatively new, it doesn’t have tons of tools, but the tools it does have are great and are very useful!
Heres a few of the helpful tools SquidUtils.com has available…
Advanced Lensmaster Dashboard
This lets you see all of the lenses and groups [...]

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Last night, I ended up staying up all night working on and creating Squidoo lenses.  I managed to get 5 lenses published.  They aren’t at all perfect, but they are a good start.  I plan on adding more content to them and tweaking them as time goes on.  I’m sure that with practice I’ll get faster at making quality [...]

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While trotting through the vast fields of the internet, I came across a free ebook about Squidoo.
This ebook briefly covers Squidoo subjects such as, creating a lens, adding graphics, search engine optimization, etc.  It’s a great basic introduction and guide to using Squidoo.
It’s free, check it out -> Squidoo-it-yourself Guide

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Success can be found on Squidoo, and below I have a listed one lensmaster that has found it.  As I said in an earlier post, it is a good idea to learn how the successfull become successful.
For those of you that don’t know what Squidoo is, check out my post on why you should create lenses on [...]

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Imagine waking up, doing your routine, then going to your computer, opening your Internet browser and then seeing a page, customized by you, that has everything you want all on one page? 
That’s exactly what Page Flakes does.  Check new posts on your favorite blogs, see the current news from your favorite news sites, add a to-do [...]

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What does a Kung-Fu wannabe do when they want to master the art of Kung-Fu?  They learn from a Kung-Fu master.
Lets pretend I’m dropped off in the woods at point A with a map but without a compass, and I am trying to get to point B. I know that the shortest distance is a straight line, but without [...]

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I’ve gone Squidoo crazy.  I love making lenses and I love to challenge myself.  So I’m combining the two and starting a Squidoo Challenge.
Starting the Squidoo Challenge
Starting today, I am now taking the Squidoo Challenge.  What will the challenge be?  To see how much money I can make from my lenses on Squidoo.  The Squidoo Challenge [...]

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Squidoo, a site where users create “lenses” about any topic they want. A “lens” is a web page a user can fill with information and links related to any topic they choose. 
How You Earn Money From Squidoo 
Squidoo makes it easy for you to fill lenses with affiliate links to items on Amazon, eBay, and from other stores. When someone buys [...]

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Squidoo is a composed of a bunch of user created single pages that are called “lenses.”  Squidoo users create lenses about whatever they want.  Lenses are meant to display the user’s point of view or recommendations to certain products or content on the world wide web.
When creating a lens Squidoo gives you a bunch of ”modules” [...]

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