Tracking Beth on Squidoo

Norma Budden is becoming famous and very popular on Squidoo. She has created a series of lenses referred to as the Purple Star Series.

What is Squidoo? It is a great place to write about your passions and any subject where you are an expert. Everyone is an expert on something! Interested? Join here: Squidoo

What is a Purple Star? It is an award given to Giant Squids on Squidoo for excellence. It is a great honor to receive one. I have 3 Purple Star awards to date, as does Norma.

Norma has lovingly nicknamed the authors of Purple Star lenses (pages) Purple Squids. I referred to her as the Purple Star Lady because she has written 8 beautiful pages dedicated to Purple Star award winners. She has also been referred to as “Queen of the Purple Squids”. I wish I had thought of that one.

Let me introduce you to Norma Budden.

Squidoo is a social marketing medium like no other. Writers are called lensmasters and their pages are called lenses. Squidoo allows you to write about most subjects. There are some rules and topics that are taboo. If your lens looks like spam or violates Squidoo’s terms of service, chances are you won’t be welcome to write there anymore.

It is easy to create a great looking page at Squidoo. All the tools are provided for you. Your lens will be broken up into modules. There are over 170 modules to choose. Some of them require your input and others will provide you with defined content. You can even earn money from sales from Amazon, eBay, CafePress, Zazzle, and others.

Many people give up on their websites because they just don’t understand how to manage them. That won’t be a problem at Squidoo. I have not met a more caring and helpful group of people anywhere. There are groups you can join. Squidoo provides answers to your questions on their forums and at the “Answer Deck”. Your pages get ranked within the Squidoo community and each month you will get paid according to your average lensrank for that month. Payment ranges from a few cents to several dollars and is paid for each lens you have that qualifies. It does add up if you have a lot of lenses. There are several lensmasters with over 400 lenses.

Does this sound like a good deal or what? I have never regretted signing up for Squidoo. I don’t think you will either. If Squidoo sounds like something you might want to try, you can join here. Give it a try today. You’ll be glad you did.

As for the title of this post, I read in one of the forums that 2 other lensmasters from my area had met for coffee and talked “Squidoo”. I sent them a message asking if I could meet with them the next time. That meeting took place last week. We had the best time together. You would have thought we have known each other for years. We discussed how much we enjoyed it and thought maybe lensmasters from other cities might enjoy the same thing. So we named our little group “Triangle Squids” and our meeting as “Squidoo Meet and Greets”. I wrote this lens, Meet The Triangle Squids, to spread the word and encourage others to start their own groups. It has been met with great enthusiasm. I also created a Facebook page about it.

Jessica Barnhart issued a challenge to Squidoo members to “Pay It Forward”. We were to choose 3 lensmasters that we admire and/or have helped us in some way by showing ‘acts of kindness’. This is my tribute to 3 of the many great lensmasters at Squidoo.

Paybacks Are A . . . Kindness