Squidoo’s Secrets Revealed

Until recently, Bob Jenkins was known as Bob the Teacher. He is known especially among those in the teaching profession who are aspiring online entrepreneurs.

Now, however, and from here on, Bob Jenkins will be known, and remembered, as the man who exposed Squidoo’s Secrets and brought the full wonder and potential of this marketing site into the spotlight, with squidoossecrets.com

So what exactly is Squidoo?

Well. The easiest way to descibe Squidoo, is like the place that sits between your personal blog, and Myspace. It is similar to both, yet it is neither.

Squidoo is made up of “lenses”. These are the personal spaces of its members. Members may have as many lenses as they choose and lenses may center around any subject at all, anything.

To give an example, in the top 100, you’ll find lenses on Handbags, Cellphones, Forex Trading, Belly Dancing, Coin Collecting, Dating and Marriage, Japanese Tattoos, and Investing in Real Estate… plus many more.

Basically, you can set up a lens on whatever you like, and get a lot of interest in it really quickly… if you know what you’re doing.

But why would you want to?

To drive more traffic to your site of course. Lenses by themselves are great, and of course Squidoo ranking system favours those lenses which are updated regularly and have plenty of fresh content. But actually, what we’re all trying to do is get people out of squidoo, and over to our own sites.

As many as possible.

So that’s why having a high lens rank is important. The higher the rank, the more people are likely to see the lens – so the more people will visit your site… for free…

And getting a high rank on Squidoo is a lot easier (and less time-consuming) than getting a high rank on Google.

With squidoossecrets.com, Bob has pieced together everything you need to know for getting your slice of action from Squidoo. I’ve had a lens for three months now and the traffic, signups and sales I get from it are a good proportion of the total…

But with over 25,000 lenses on Squidoo, its worth knowing what you’re doing before you set out. To start with, aim at getting your lens into the top 1,000. I.e with a rank of less than 1,000. It won’t take you long if you follow Bobs expert advice…

Here’s to Squidoossecrets.com… and Bob the Squid-Tamer… Thanks for reeling it in!

Juggling Balls…

Heck, its been ages since I’ve posted to my blog!

Infact timbrocklehurst.com isn’t the only thing that has suffered neglect this past fortnight. My customer service has been slow too (sorry everyone) and I have not mailed for as many of my friends and partners in the IM world as I should have either (forgive me guys)…

I confess. I’ve been practicing a method of working which I advise against. Its called multi-tasking. I don’t just mean talking on the phone and writing an email at the same time – thats just plain clever! – no, I mean I’ve been working on more than one project so that I don’t leave my ideas on the shelf too long.

The reason why I advise against it is simple. If you begin a project which will take say 24 hours and you work 8 hours a day, then in 3 days its finished, its out there and its making money.
If you begin 2 projects, one takes 24 hours, the other 32 hours – and you work on them both at the same time – then after 3 days you’ll be halfway through both of them instead of earning from one.

Thats why it is normally better to do one project at a time, and see it through to completion (so its making money) before you start something else.
But, like life, with Internet Marketing its not always easy to follow the rules of practicality.

Yesterday, one of the projects I had been working on, The Freedom List Version II, was completed. Actually its only the prelaunch firesale that is completed, and the new memberships – Platinum and Elite. This project begun early last week with a survey of the members to find out what they felt was missing, and what is most important, and was only completed when I mailed them all last night that the TFL II Prelaunch party has begun.

So it was completed 2 days later than scheduled. Why? because my time was divided while I try and complete a software product I’ve been building at the same time. I should know better. A further reason why multi-project-tasking is a bad idea, is because when you can only devote 50% of your time to something, you only do it 75% as well as you would if you were devoting all your time to it.

I have no conclusive proof of this, but I’m convinced its true…

Anyway, I’m thankful to have TFLII out there, and working. Its exciting when 100% commissions are offered on the front end. The viral-spread is fun to watch. I’ve also used the beta of Mike Filsaime’s Viral Friends Generator script (launching Feb 28) in it. And I’m watching closely how this promising little tool performs…

So now – with one project gone, I can throw myself at the other. (Which needs me 100%)… I’ll try not to leave it so long before my next post. Infact, I can feel it coming already so stay tuned…!