Sold One Of My Lenses

Yesterday somebody contacted me for one of my lenses, a tier 3 lens with a PR 3. Basically the lens was related to the topic of a website the person has, which makes sense. Initially I didn't want to sell it,as it's a good lens that I've worked quite a lot on, but in the end I realized that I can always create more lenses (currently I have 202 lenses once this has been sold), and the money in my pocket is also something.

It only sold for $50, but that is money I can use for hosting or new domains. I do predict, however, that the lens will go at some point to tier 2. Yesterday it had lensrank of 22k, while today (I did delete a few links from it and tidied it up a bit), it has 15k lensrank, which is a nice upward trend. I'll keep checking the lens, I think it has real potential. But still, I'm not sorry that I sold it as long as it went to a good home.

Became A Monster Giant Squid And Got A Purple Star

It's quite late in the evening, was about to go to sleep when I checked my email and noticed two mails from Squidoo. I applied to the next level of Giant Squid 50 called Monster Giant, and I've just been accepted AND I got a purple star, my 4th one so far for the lens Kindle Touch case with light. I'm doing my happy dance right now.

Just a year ago I treated Squidoo as some free web2 site to backlink my actual websites. Little did I know that things would turn around so far. Not only I've started earning on Squidoo, every month more than before (just passed $500 for the direct Squidoo payments this month for the April earnings), but I became a Giant squid, got 4 purple stars and learned to make great lenses and got to enjoy doing them too.

Here is the Squidoo dashboard notification about the monster giant squid entrance and the purple star on a lens:

Reached New Milestone: to Write 200 Lenses

Finally one of my milestones at Squidoo has been reached: I've just written my 200th lens on Beach wall murals, with some lovely beach scenery artwork for the walls.

So what is my next milestone? Well one of my goals is to become a higher level Giant squid. Currently I am in the level 25, the first level of a giant. The next one is level 50 - monster level. With 200 lenses under my belt I'm pretty sure Squidoo HQ will find 50 lenses that quality.

Next I will go for 250 lenses and then eventually 300. Not sure if I can manage to hit the 300 this year, but it is a goal I'm going for in any case.