10 More Lenses To Reach 200

I'm so close to reaching one of my milestones of this year: 200 lenses. Today I've published my 190th on Gifts for guitarists. My brother plays guitar for fun, so I had plenty of ideas to give him or others like him for birthday or Christmas gift, etc.

So what is my next goal once I make 200 lenses? I'm hoping that I'll reach 300 this year. It's 100 lenses more, so I'll have to really get busy to reach this goal, but it might just be possible. That should put me on another earning bracket altogether - hopefully.

187 Lenses And What Else Is New

It's been a bit quiet here on this blog about Squidoo, and I haven't made as many lenses as before, currently being a shy number away from 200. Reason is that I've been writing an ebook for a client. I've finished now the last chapter, and early next week I'll have to review it, check the layout, fonts and all and hand it over fully to the customer. And get paid. And then I can focus more on Squidoo again. I do want to get to 200 lenses by the end of June when I take off for 2 weeks to visit my parents in Hungary.

My natural perfume lens is still featured on the homepage, I've just seen it now when I logged on to Squidoo. Also for the last 2 weeks sales have started to nicely pick up. Now I get more than just a measly sale or two or three a day. There were days when I had over 10 Amazon sales. Granted, today was only 1 again. Hm, maybe I shouldn't talk about it, I just jinx it.

Latest Squidoo payment just came through on the 10th and I made $432, $40 less than the previous month. On the other hand, I made $100 more on Amazon through the lenses using my own affiliate id. My goal hopefully by the end of the year: to get to 8% commission at Amazon. Now that would bump up the earnings nicely. We'll see.

Here is an interesting graph of my Squidoo earnings to date. Funny how it really took off last October, it practically shot off from almost 0.

My Lens On The Front Page Of Squidoo

I'm so thrilled, for the first time ever one of my lenses has been featured on the front page of Squidoo.com itself. The lens is called How to make natural perfume and it's based on one of my (many) hobbies. I love making my own perfume mixes and it's fun to learn about it.

The lens was created a bit over a week ago, and I entered in one of the Squidoo competitions called the Squidcademy Awards. Following that I got the day before yesterday a purple star for it along with 500 squidpoints, and yesterday received my email from Squidoo telling me that it has been selected for the front page.
I rushed to check it out, and indeed, the lens is there, featured every couple of times the page is refreshed. There are many lenses featured on the front page, so featuring them goes through a rotation process.

I took a screenshot of it 'for posterity', so here it is.